AI Procurement Domain SME (Remote, US)
About The Position
NTT DATA is seeking an AI Procurement Domain SME to help shape and deliver AI-native procurement transformation solutions. The role engages senior procurement leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to identify transformation priorities, lead discovery and value workshops, translate business needs into AI solutions, and develop solution narratives, business cases, proposals, demonstrations, KPI frameworks, and executive presentations. It assesses process maturity, data readiness, technology landscapes, controls, and feasibility, and explains how GenAI and Agentic AI can improve procurement outcomes. During client engagements, the SME leads procurement domain work from diagnostic and design through deployment and adoption. The role defines business requirements and process designs, validates AI agents and automation against procurement operations and policies, supports change management, and tracks realized value against approved business cases. It also turns client insights into reusable offerings and assets, supports the roadmap for procurement AI capabilities, trains internal teams, and monitors relevant market and regulatory developments.
Requirements
- 12+ years of procurement consulting, operations, transformation, technology-enabled change, or relevant industry experience.
- Deep expertise in at least three areas: strategic sourcing; category management; spend analytics; supplier relationship and performance management; contract lifecycle management; procurement operations/P2P; tail spend; supplier risk; or procurement analytics and value tracking.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing and products industries, including Industrial, Chemicals, Materials, CPG, High Tech, or Automotive sectors.
- Experience with enterprise procurement and ERP platforms such as SAP, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, Ivalua, Jaggaer, GEP, Zycus, or related solutions.
- Strong understanding of how AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI can be applied to procurement decisions, knowledge work, and operational workflows.
- Experience building outcome-based business cases and tracking savings, compliance, cash, productivity, and realized value.
- Executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate strategy workshops, and communicate with business and technology teams.
- Excellent communication, presentation, proposal development, and structured problem-solving skills.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in presales, solution consulting, product management, procurement advisory, or a procurement leadership role.
- Experience implementing AI, analytics, automation, e-sourcing, CLM, supplier management, or source-to-pay solutions.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled managed services, procurement-as-a-service, or outcome-based commercial models.
- Knowledge of responsible sourcing, sustainability, third-party risk, trade compliance, tariffs, and supplier resilience.
- Experience working with global delivery teams and cross-functional stakeholders in complex enterprise environments.
- CPSM, CIPS, ISM, Lean Six Sigma, or relevant procurement/transformation certifications.
Responsibilities
- Engage CPOs and leaders across strategic sourcing, category management, supplier management, procurement operations, finance, legal, and supply chain to understand transformation priorities.
- Lead discovery and value workshops, translating business needs into AI-native solutions with defined outcomes, value hypotheses, scope, and ROI.
- Develop solution narratives, business cases, POVs, proposals, demo storylines, KPI frameworks, and executive presentations.
- Demonstrate how GenAI and Agentic AI can improve procurement visibility, savings, sourcing cycle time, supplier performance, compliance, user experience, and productivity.
- Assess process maturity, data readiness, technology landscape, controls, and implementation feasibility to guide opportunity qualification and solution scope.
- Serve as the lead procurement domain SME during client engagements, from diagnostic and design through deployment and adoption.
- Define business requirements, process designs, category and sourcing rules, approval logic, exception handling, controls, and success criteria.
- Validate AI agents, workflows, domain models, ontologies, and automation designs against real-world procurement operations and policy requirements.
- Partner with procurement, finance, IT, legal, risk, and business stakeholders to drive adoption, change management, and measurable outcomes.
- Establish KPI baselines and track realized value against the approved business case, including hard savings, cost avoidance, compliance, cycle time, and productivity.
- Convert client insights into reusable use cases, accelerators, playbooks, demo assets, process models, and product requirements.
- Support the roadmap for procurement AI capabilities across intake-to-procure, source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, and supplier management.
- Train sales, solution architects, product, and delivery teams on procurement processes, value drivers, buyer personas, and positioning.
- Monitor market trends, competitor offerings, procurement platforms, regulatory expectations, and emerging AI-native procurement solutions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending or health savings account
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance
- 401(k) program with company match
- Additional voluntary or legally required benefits
- May be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
