Vice President, Procurement Operations

Key Responsibilities

• Administer global procurement technology to global user base in partnership with global technology and corporate/continent leadership. Develop training materials and standard operating procedures to enable consistency and scale.
• Establish key performance indicators to monitor performance of global procurement. Partner with global procurement leadership team to set targets, provide regular reporting and develop improvement plans where necessary.
• Maintain a close working relationship with global finance and accounting, ensuring the seamless execution of the end-to-end procure to pay process across property and corporate locations. Design business and procure to pay processes to streamline invoice payment and reduce manual touch.
• Administer the source to contract technology platform to enable category management prioritization and reporting.
• Provide thought leadership in the creation of business cases, make-buy analysis, and funding methodology evolution over time.
• Administer all global procurement contract incentives, allowances and sponsorship in accordance with contract terms and company policies and procedures.
• Monitor, measure and report on contract audits, service level agreements (SLA) and vendor performance. Partner with category and contracting leaders globally to establish improvement plans where necessary.
• Leverage offshore procurement teams and shared service centers for transactional procurement, invoice processing, and data analytics to drive efficiency and cost savings.
• Drive automation in procurement workflows, contract management, and payments, ensuring lean operations and reducing manual touchpoints.
• Lead global procurement transformation initiatives, ensuring smooth adoption of new processes and technologies across owned, managed, and franchised properties.
• Build and develop a high-performing global procurement operations team, leveraging offshore resources to support transactional procurement and analytics while focusing in-house teams on strategic initiatives.

Qualification & Requirements

Required

• BA/BS business administration, supply chain management, finance or related field
• 10+ years of business, procure to pay, finance, make-buy experience with at least 5 years in a leadership role. Solid technical knowledge of best in class end to end supply chain management practices. Knowledge of source to contract technology, category management and contracting.
• Demonstrated ability to create strategy and implement change while managing a geographically dispersed team in a highly matrixed cross-discipline environment.\

Preferred

• Masters in Business Administration
• Track record managing within third-party outsourced support models, including offshore support.

Benefits

Marriott offers:

• A bonus program
• Comprehensive health care benefits
• 401(k) plan with up to 5% company match
• Employee stock purchase plan at 15% discount
• Accrued paid time off (including sick leave where applicable)
• Life insurance
• Group disability insurance
• Travel discounts
• Adoption assistance
• Paid parental leave
• Health savings account (except for positions based out of or performed in Hawaii)
• Flexible spending accounts
• Tuition assistance
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Other life and work wellness benefits,
• and may include other incentives such as
  • Stock awards; and
  • Deferred compensation plans

Benefits and incentive compensation may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.

The compensation and benefits information is provided as of the date of this posting. Marriott reserves the right to modify compensation and benefits at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.