Director, Procurement Excellence & Performance

Pernod Ricard•New York, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Pernod Ricard is a global premium international champagnes and spirits company. The Director, Procurement Excellence & Performance reports to the Senior Director, Indirect Procurement and leads the Procurement Center of Excellence for procurement excellence and performance across NADL/PRNA. The role owns the standards, governance, tools, templates, reporting routines, and performance management practices that enable consistent procurement execution and measurable value delivery across Direct and Indirect Procurement. This role is accountable for savings validation, sustainable sourcing enablement, supplier relationship management routines, procurement process excellence, and stakeholder adoption. The Senior Manager provides functional leadership across procurement standards and adoption, may manage direct report(s) as the function evolves, and influences category teams and senior business stakeholders to improve visibility, compliance, performance, and procurement impact. The role sets procurement excellence standards, tools, governance routines, and performance expectations in partnership with Direct and Indirect Procurement leadership. Category teams retain ownership of category strategy, sourcing execution, supplier commercial decisions, and business-specific category outcomes.

Requirements

Procurement expertise across Direct and Indirect: Strong understanding of category strategy, sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier onboarding, supplier performance, and procure-to-pay processes.
Procurement Excellence / CoE leadership: Ability to create, govern, scale, and drive adoption of standards, tools, templates, playbooks, processes, and governance practices.
Savings validation and performance management: Experience defining value methodologies, validating savings and cost avoidance, managing reporting cadences, and partnering with Finance on benefits tracking.
Sustainable sourcing enablement: Ability to embed sustainability considerations into sourcing processes, supplier engagement, performance reporting, and procurement governance.
Supplier relationship management: Experience developing supplier segmentation, scorecards, business review routines, escalation paths, corrective actions, and performance improvement plans.
Governance, compliance, and risk: Working knowledge of procurement policy, delegation of authority, competitive bidding, contracting workflows, supplier due diligence, audit support, and internal controls.
Senior stakeholder influence: Strong advisory, communication, and change leadership skills with the ability to align priorities and drive adoption across business and procurement stakeholders.
Analytics and executive reporting: Advanced ability to analyze spend, savings, supplier, contract, compliance, and operational data and translate insights into clear executive-level actions.
Project and change leadership: Ability to manage complex priorities, lead cross-functional workstreams, influence without direct authority, and deliver results through others.
Technology proficiency: Comfortable working with procurement, ERP, sourcing, contract management, supplier management, spend analytics, reporting, and dashboarding tools.
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Operations, Engineering, Economics, or a related field.
8–10+ years of progressive procurement, sourcing, category management, supplier management, procurement operations, supply chain, finance, operations, or business performance experience.
Experience leading work across both Direct and Indirect Procurement categories, including supplier strategy, spend analysis, sourcing events, negotiations, contract governance, performance tracking, savings validation, sustainable sourcing, process improvement, and stakeholder partnership.
Experience building, governing, or scaling procurement templates, playbooks, dashboards, governance routines, or Center of Excellence capabilities preferred.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders, deadlines, data inputs, business priorities, and senior leadership visibility.
People management or functional leadership experience, including coaching, prioritization, performance guidance, stakeholder influence, and development of others, preferred.
Experience in consumer goods, beverage, manufacturing, marketing services, logistics, or a related industry preferred.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree, MBA, or procurement/supply chain certification preferred.
Experience building, governing, or scaling procurement templates, playbooks, dashboards, governance routines, or Center of Excellence capabilities preferred.
People management or functional leadership experience, including coaching, prioritization, performance guidance, stakeholder influence, and development of others, preferred.
Experience in consumer goods, beverage, manufacturing, marketing services, logistics, or a related industry preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead Procurement Center of Excellence: Own the procurement excellence roadmap, standards, tools, templates, governance routines, and performance practices that improve consistency and execution across Direct and Indirect Procurement.
Own savings validation and value performance: Lead the savings validation framework in partnership with Finance, ensuring savings, cost avoidance, and broader procurement value are consistently defined, documented, approved, tracked, and reported.
Set process, template, and governance standards: Develop and deploy scalable sourcing templates, playbooks, dashboards, reporting formats, governance routines, training materials, and adoption tools that support consistent ways of working.
Enable sustainable sourcing: Embed sustainability considerations into sourcing processes, supplier engagement materials, reporting routines, and procurement governance practices in partnership with category teams and sustainability stakeholders.
Define supplier relationship management routines: Establish supplier segmentation, performance scorecards, business review standards, issue escalation processes, service-level tracking, and improvement routines for strategic and key suppliers.
Drive stakeholder engagement and adoption: Advise and influence Procurement, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing, Legal, IT, and business stakeholders to align priorities, improve visibility, and translate business needs into procurement action.
Support category performance across Direct and Indirect Procurement: Partner with category teams to define objectives, KPIs, roadmaps, value plans, supplier strategies, and executive-level insights, while category teams retain ownership of category strategy and sourcing execution.
Strengthen compliance, risk, and audit readiness: Reinforce procurement policy, delegation of authority, competitive bidding, supplier onboarding, due diligence, contracting discipline, audit requirements, and risk management standards.
Provide people and functional leadership: Lead, coach, and develop direct report(s) and workstream participants by setting priorities, managing performance, building accountability, supporting development, and driving results through others.