Associate Director - Procurement Strategy & Transformation

The Clorox Company • Alpharetta, GA

2d • $131,300 - $316,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

Associate Director, Procurement Strategy & Transformation is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for shaping and driving Procurement’s long-term strategy, transformation agenda, and operating model. The role serves as a strategic thought partner to the Chief Procurement Officer and Procurement Leadership Team, translating Enterprise and Supply Chain priorities into actionable roadmaps, governance structures, performance measures, and executive decisions.

The position leads cross-functional strategic and operational initiatives that improve Procurement’s ability to create, capture, and protect business value, with particular emphasis on functional strategy, value delivery, category strategy development, organizational operations effectiveness, talent capability building, and technology-enabled transformation. The role also drives the operating cadence of the Procurement function, providing leadership with clear visibility to strategic progress, financial performance, risks, priorities, and required decisions.

Through a combination of structured problem solving, data-driven insight, executive communication, and cross-functional influence, the Associate Director ensures that Procurement’s strategic priorities are translated into sustained execution and measurable business impact.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience in strategy, management consulting, procurement, supply chain, finance, transformation, strategic operations, or related fields.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional strategic or transformation initiatives in a global, matrixed organization.
• Experience developing and operationalizing functional or enterprise strategies, operating models, performance-management systems, or transformation roadmaps.
• Experience advising senior executives and translating complex analysis into clear recommendations and decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously and deliver results through stakeholders outside the direct reporting line.
• Experience working with financial, operational, and performance data to identify insights, risks, and business opportunities.
• Experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, or another complex global operating environment.
• Experience leading procurement transformation, cost transformation, organizational design, digital transformation, enterprise integration, or large-scale change.
• Experience with cost savings, value delivery, working-capital, supplier, category-strategy, or procurement performance-management processes.
• Experience managing and developing high-performing strategy or transformation professionals

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a top-tier or well-regarded consulting firm (e.g., McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Kearney, Oliver Wyman, LEK), ideally focused on procurement or supply chain strategy is highly preffered.
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in a top-tier or well-regarded management consulting firm.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, refinement, and operationalization of Procurement’s multiyear strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise, Supply Chain, business unit, and functional priorities.
• Translate Procurement’s vision and strategic priorities into clear roadmaps, initiatives, milestones, ownership, governance, and measures of success.
• Partner with the Chief Procurement Officer and Procurement Leadership Team to identify emerging priorities, evaluate strategic choices, and align leadership around the highest-value opportunities.
• Monitor external, enterprise, and functional developments that may require changes to Procurement’s strategy, operating model, capabilities, or investment priorities.
• Lead strategic reviews and planning sessions that assess progress, resolve roadblocks, and maintain accountability for delivery.
• Ensure Procurement’s transformation portfolio remains focused on measurable value creation, capability advancement, operational rigor, resilience, and long-term competitive advantage.
• Connect Procurement’s strategic agenda to the broader Supply Chain strategy and its priorities of accelerating smart growth, driving operational rigor, reimagining collaboration, and establishing a future-fit Supply Chain.
• Lead or coordinate complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives that span Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, business units, Global Business Services, Digital, Technology, and other enterprise functions.
• Convert high-level strategic opportunities into structured programs with defined scope, business outcomes, governance, resources, milestones, risks, and implementation plans.
• Coordinate stakeholders across functions and levels to maintain alignment, resolve issues, and accelerate execution.
• Lead strategic analyses, business cases, organizational assessments, and operating-model design efforts to support major Procurement and Supply Chain decisions.
• Support integration, organizational redesign, and enterprise transformation activities where Procurement strategy, capabilities, processes, technology, or supplier ecosystems are affected.
• Ensure transformation programs connect strategy to implementation and produce measurable, sustainable business benefits.
• Establish governance and benefit-tracking approaches that clarify ownership, strengthen Finance validation, and prevent duplication or double counting of value.
• Apply change-management principles to build sponsorship, adoption, and sustained ways of working.
• Manage Procurement’s leadership operating cadence, including strategic planning, leadership reviews, monthly and quarterly reviews, performance discussions, and executive-level updates.
• Manager performance of Procurement metrics including governance, decision rights, accountability, and escalation mechanisms across strategic initiatives.
• Maintain and update an integrated view of functional priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and business outcomes.
• Partner with Finance and Procurement leaders on reporting and governance for cost savings, value creation, working capital, inflation, tariffs, strategic investments, and other key performance measures.
• Synthesize complex financial, operational, supplier, market, and organizational information into clear insights and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Identify performance gaps, cross-functional dependencies, and execution risks, and work with accountable leaders to establish recovery actions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the Chief Procurement Officer and Procurement Leadership Team on strategic, financial, organizational, and transformation priorities.
• Develop clear and compelling narratives, recommendations, presentations, and decision materials for senior leadership and other executive forums.
• Create alignment across Procurement leadership by connecting initiatives, surfacing interdependencies, and clarifying decisions, ownership, and required actions.
• Prepare executive-ready materials that improve visibility, enable faster decisions, and convey procurements benefit from broader organization.
• Partner with Communications, Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain, and functional leaders to support organizational priorities, leadership engagement, and change initiatives.
• Support Procurement talent and capability priorities, including organizational design, role clarity, leadership sessions, capability roadmaps, development programs, and succession-related discussions.
• Facilitate high-impact leadership workshops and strategy sessions that convert complex topics into decisions and executable actions.
• Represent Procurement’s strategy and transformation agenda in cross-functional forums and, where appropriate, with external partners, advisors, and industry organizations.
• Manage and develop direct reports, establishing clear priorities, providing coaching, and ensuring effective delivery of the Strategy & Transformation agenda.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities across supply markets and translate insights into strategic recommendations.
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve category strategy effectiveness and execution rigor.

Benefits

• Robust health plans
• Market-leading 401(k) program with a company match
• Flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location)
• Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior