Strategic Sourcing, COE Procurement Project Manager

Kroger

Job Description

This role is responsible for building and sustaining sourcing training programs, strengthening sourcing governance practices, and partnering with key stakeholders to optimize Source-to-Pay (STP) systems and processes. Collaborate with business stakeholders to improve process consistency, system adoption, compliance, and overall sourcing effectiveness. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Responsibilities

Indirect Sourcing Training and Development:
Partner with the Talent and Training COE to design, maintain, and continuously improve training materials, playbooks, job aids, and standard work to support consistent execution of Indirect Sourcing processes
Collaborate with the Talent and Training COE to develop onboarding and ongoing learning programs for sourcing associates, business partners, and key stakeholders to strengthen sourcing capability and process understanding
Partner with category leaders and procurement stakeholders to identify knowledge gaps, training needs, and opportunities to improve sourcing effectiveness
Measure training adoption, effectiveness, and business impact through feedback, process metrics, and stakeholder engagement
Indirect Sourcing Governance:
Establish, maintain, and improve governance standards for Indirect Sourcing processes, tools, templates, approval flows, and documentation requirements
Drive sourcing process compliance by partnering with category management, procurement operations, finance, legal, and business stakeholders
Monitor sourcing governance performance through reporting, issue tracking, audit readiness, and continuous improvement routines
Lead governance routines to review process adherence, identify risks or gaps, and recommend actions to improve sourcing consistency and control
Procurement Technology Management:
Develop relationships with key stakeholders, system owners to understand how they use the systems to conduct daily transactional activities
Strategize and lead optimization projects to improve the efficiency and value that procurement technology solutions/systems can provide to the organization and Kroger
Create standard procedures to optimize technology and resolve issues for procurement systems
Manage systems and projects to achieve sourcing goals in accordance with Kroger's policies and practices
Engage IT resources for enhancement or developmental requests
Maintain deep technical knowledge of the systems and impact on the overall IT landscape
Define and implement a roadmap to meet the organization's system and data management goals and objectives
Talent Management:
Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties: complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports
Create an effective work environment by developing a common vision, communicating clear objectives, fostering teamwork, recognizing performance, providing on the job coaching
Maintain knowledge of other initiatives in Kroger that may affect the COE performance and operations
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Management, Technology, Retail, CPG, or similar
3+ years of leadership/management experience with large complex organizations
3+ years of experience with eSourcing, catalog implementation and management
Experience developing training materials, standard work, playbooks, process documentation, or capability-building programs
Ability to define governance standards, monitor compliance, identify process gaps, and partner cross-functionally to implement improvements
Proven experience with procurement technology, STP platforms, transactional activities and catalog enablement
Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Vizio)
Ability to synthesize analysis into compelling oral and written communications and presentations

Desired

Master's Degree
1 year of experience in a data organization, clearly exposed and performing tasks within different data governance aspects

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