Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TKO is seeking a procurement professional to serve as Manager, Global Procurement Operations. The role translates the Procurement operating model into repeatable processes, tools, workflows, and controls while improving procurement intake, sourcing execution, supplier management, spend analytics, contracting coordination, reporting, and data governance. The manager partners across Finance, Legal, cybersecurity, compliance, and business functions to streamline operations and improve process performance.
Responsibilities
- Implement and continuously improve the day-to-day procurement operating rhythm and related operating model components, including intake, triage, project setup, approvals, closeout, and reporting
- Translate approved Procurement processes into practical workflows, tools, controls, service standards, templates, and standard operating procedures that are easy for stakeholders to follow and maintain
- Support configuration of a procurement orchestration platform, connecting, integrating, and streamlining core procurement process steps with related functional requirements across legal, cybersecurity, compliance, finance, etc
- Build and maintain spend analytics, dashboards, trackers, and recurring reports that provide visibility into supplier spend, sourcing activity, savings, cost avoidance, renewals, cycle time, adoption, and process performance
- Maintain a controlled vendor master and preferred supplier register, including supplier identifiers, parent or affiliate relationships, categories, business unit usage, contract linkage, risk tier, preferred status, capabilities, renewal information, and performance
- Maintain accurate procurement pipeline, project, supplier, contract, and value tracking data, including approved data standards, required fields, category taxonomy, ownership, and exception resolution
- Partner with Finance to establish, improve, and maintain budget confirmation, opportunity identification, savings validation, post-award value realization, and reporting processes
- Ensure procurement activity is properly documented and follows policy, competitive bid requirements, approval thresholds, intake standards, and applicable controls
- Identify process gaps, recurring failure points, duplicate work, and unnecessary handoffs; implement practical improvements and work with Senior Sourcing Managers to translate sourcing strategy into executable plans, consistent documentation, and reliable reporting
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Operations, or a related field
- • 5+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, procurement operations, supply chain, business operations, or a related discipline
- • Strong procurement foundation, including familiarity with sourcing, contracting, supplier management, spend analytics, approvals, and procure-to-pay concepts
- • Demonstrated ability to design, standardize, document, and improve business processes
- • Experience coordinating work across procurement, Finance, Legal, business stakeholders, suppliers, and other functional partners
- • Strong analytical skills, with experience working with spend data, supplier data, project trackers, dashboards, and financial reporting
- • Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and Business Intelligence skills and comfort working across multiple systems and data sources
- • Practical AI utilization, including configuration and deployment of AI Agents
- • Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage dependencies, deadlines, follow-ups, risks, and escalations
- • Critical thinking mindset with the ability to distinguish between a one-time exception and a process problem that should be solved systematically
- • Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make processes easy to understand and follow
- • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment with competing priorities and incomplete information
- • Experience with source-to-contract, contract lifecycle management, procure-to-pay, ERP, supplier management, and procurement orchestration platforms
- • Experience coordinating integrations, data handoffs, or workflow improvements between procurement, contracting, and finance systems
- • Experience building procurement operating models, service catalogs, governance frameworks, or process performance metrics
- • Experience with supplier master data, contract and renewal tracking, spend classification, or supplier performance reporting
- • Experience in a lean or transforming procurement organization where simplicity, prioritization, and scalability are critical
- • Lean Six Sigma, process improvement, project management, or procurement certification
- • Experience in sports, entertainment, live events, professional services, or another complex indirect spend environment
- • Experience working in a holding company, multi-entity, or similarly complex organizational structure
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