Vice President, Procurement Operations Excellence

Role Overview

• Build and lead a high-performing procurement operations excellence organization across governance, systems, data, analytics, and process excellence.
• Partner with broader Procurement organization, Finance, IT, Operations, and venue leaders to align priorities and drive value.
• Drive talent management including recruiting, performance management, coaching, and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Trusted advisor to business unit leaders and SVP Procurement in support of driving procurement strategy and procurement operations excellence.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise procurement governance framework, including policies, standards, process documentation, and controls.
• Establish the global Procurement Operating Model with consistent roles, workflows, SLAs, and RACI alignment.
• Create and manage Legends' procurement policy architecture—including sourcing thresholds, delegation of authority, contract requirements, supplier onboarding standards, and compliance controls.
• Drive adoption of best‑practice procurement, supplier management, and inventory processes across all venues and business units.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Risk, and Audit to ensure adherence to regulatory, contractual, and financial governance requirements.
• Define and manage procurement KPIs across cost, efficiency, quality, compliance, and user experience.
• Own savings tracking methodology, baselines, Finance validation, and performance reporting.
• Lead QBRs with senior executives and publish scorecards.
• Lead end‑to‑end process mapping, optimization, and automation across requisitioning, sourcing, contracting, purchasing, receiving, invoicing, inventory, and supplier management.
• Benchmark procurement processes against industry standards and define KPI targets for accuracy, efficiency, compliance, and speed.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives leveraging Lean, Six Sigma, and digital transformation.
• Define and own the multi‑year Procurement Technology Roadmap that must scale, in partnership with IT, Finance, and functional stakeholders.
• Lead adoption of AI‑enabled procurement capabilities, including intelligent document processing, predictive analytics, conversational interfaces, risk monitoring, and automated workflow optimization.
• Build and scale an integrated AI‑enabled Work Orchestration Platform to streamline intake, routing, approvals, exception handling, and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Oversee development of a Client Portal for real‑time visibility into spend, supplier performance, contracts, KPIs, and savings dashboards.
• Lead deployment of a Vendor Portal to streamline onboarding, compliance documentation, catalog updates, and supplier performance reviews.
• Ensure seamless integration across ERP/Finance systems, POS, inventory systems, and supplier networks.
• Oversee system management, configuration governance, release management, training, and user experience enhancements.
• Own the enterprise procurement data strategy, data governance, and coordinate closely with IT and Finance on master data management.
• Build supplier data pipelines enabling a robust database of transaction and catalog data.
• Define and maintain global procurement dashboards across spend, utilization, savings, inventory accuracy, supplier performance, cycle times, and risk.
• Work with IT to ensure data quality through cleansing, validation, and automated controls.
• Deliver insights using advanced analytics, forecasting, predictive models, and BI tools.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree, MBA preferred.
• 15+ years in procurement or supply chain with proven success leading procurement operations or transformation and major technology implementation.
• Expertise in source / procure-to-pay, eProcurement tools, inventory systems, and supplier management.
• Strong understanding of procurement governance, policy development, and compliance.
• Advanced proficiency with analytics platforms and data visualization.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven track record leading sourcing and procurement across multiple spend categories, with particular emphasis on food and beverage.
• Deep negotiation and contract management skills.

Tech Stack

• ERP

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• life and disability insurance
• paid vacation
• 401k plan