The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Corporate Planning & Management, Product Strategy & Enablement, Associate, Dallas

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $90K — $120K *
Dallas, TX 75217In-Person
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
6 days ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in Product Management or related areas with enterprise procurement exposure.
  • Hands-on knowledge of SAP Ariba or similar Source to Pay platforms
  • Experience in managing complex technical ecosystems and vendor integrations.
  • Focus on customer experience design and metrics in enterprise settings.
  • Strong analytical and presentation skills for management-level reporting.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills, preferably in a global context.
  • Agile methodology experience with platforms like JIRA and Confluence.

Responsibilities

  • Support the product lifecycle for Global Procurement, ensuring effective delivery and optimization.
  • Champion customer-first principles across procurement interactions to enhance user experiences.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on SAP Ariba, driving improvements and integrations with other systems.
  • Define and document requirements for new features in collaboration with engineering teams.
  • Promote AI and automation tools to streamline procurement operations and improve decision-making.
  • Facilitate stakeholder workshops to gather feedback and guide product development.
  • Lead testing practices including creation of test plans and tracking defects for procurement solutions.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment alongside diverse professionals in corporate planning.
  • Opportunity to drive significant enhancements in procurement and customer experience.
  • Engagement with advanced technologies like AI for process optimization.
  • Broad scope of influence across various firm divisions and functions.
  • Support for professional growth through exposure to procurement operations and product management.
Full Job Description
Job Description

CORPORATE PLANNING & MANAGEMENT

Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) is a central strategic function at Goldman Sachs, responsible for driving firmwide operational excellence, business planning, and the infrastructure that enables the firm to operate with strength, resiliency, and agility. CPM partners across every division to deliver scalable solutions, optimize business processes, and position the firm for sustainable growth. The CPM Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third-party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm. Within Spend Management, the Source to Pay function encompasses Strategic Sourcing, Procure to Pay, Integrated Travel and Expense, Infrastructure and Transformation, and Sustainable Operations - managing all aspects of the firm's spend with third parties, advising on commercial agreements, and driving operating efficiency.

SOURCE TO PAY -PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Within CPM, the Source to Pay function oversees the end-to-end lifecycle of procurement and payables - from sourcing and vendor management through purchasing, invoicing, and payment. The Global Procurement team is focused on optimizing the procurement experience for internal firmwide stakeholders, Goldman Sachs suppliers, and Global Procurement operations teams - driving customer experience excellence, enabling frictionless interactions across the procurement lifecycle, and delivering scalable solutions anchored in the SAP Ariba platform ecosystem.

YOUR IMPACT

Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity, and come from diverse academic backgrounds. The ideal candidate brings solid experience in product management and a growing understanding of procurement business processes and customer experience design - with hands-on familiarity with SAP Ariba or comparable Source to Pay platforms. The role requires regular collaboration across functions, the ability to work independently, and comfort interacting with senior professionals across the firm.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
  1. Global Procurement Product Support: Support the product lifecycle for Global Procurement platform products - contributing to discovery, requirements definition, delivery, and ongoing optimization under the guidance of senior product leaders.
  2. Customer Experience Design: Champion a customer-first philosophy across all Global Procurement touchpoints. Improve the end-to-end procurement journey for internal business users - from purchase request through approval, ordering, receipt, and invoice reconciliation. Enhance the supplier-facing experience across onboarding, catalog management, purchase order acknowledgment, invoice submission, and payment visibility. Partner with Global Procurement operations to identify workflow inefficiencies and translate pain points into product improvements. Define and track customer experience KPIs including cycle times, onboarding completion rates, and exception rates.
  3. SAP Ariba Platform Expertise: Serve as a subject matter contributor on SAP Ariba across the Source to Pay spectrum - supporting Ariba Sourcing, Buying and Invoicing, Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, and Ariba Network. Drive enhancements to guided buying, catalog management, requisition and order workflows, and invoice processing. Support integration of SAP Ariba with adjacent systems including SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fieldglass. Partner with engineering teams to define configuration requirements, manage enhancements, and coordinate release cycles.
  4. Requirements Definition & Documentation: Define functional and non-functional requirements for new features and work with Engineering and Strategic Delivery Partners to ensure alignment with business objectives. Create detailed documentation including business process flows, user stories, and use cases.
  5. AI & Automation Contribution: Champion the use of AI tools, machine learning, and intelligent automation to streamline procurement processes - including guided buying recommendations, automated approval routing, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics. Partner with engineering teams deploying AI-powered capabilities.
  6. Stakeholder Facilitation & Alignment: Facilitate workshops, journey mapping sessions, and product demonstrations to align stakeholders and gather feedback. Act as a liaison between business users, suppliers, operations, and Engineering to ensure successful adoption of procurement solutions.
  7. Testing & Quality Assurance: Lead creation of test plans, test cases, and test scripts. Coordinate end-to-end system testing including UAT. Track and manage defects and deliver status reporting to project stakeholders. Support post-go-live validations.
  8. Value-Driven Prioritization: Contribute to defining and maintaining a product backlog and roadmap prioritized by business value and customer experience impact. Balance near-term operational needs with long-term strategic goals.
  9. Metrics & Performance Management: Define, track, and report on KPIs measuring product success, user adoption, process efficiency, and business impact - including requisition cycle time, guided buying adoption, supplier onboarding rates, and spend under management.
  10. Agile Delivery: Actively participate in agile development - writing user stories and acceptance criteria, grooming backlogs, and ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of features and functionality.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  1. Minimum of 3 years of Product Management or related experience with exposure to enterprise procurement, Source to Pay, or related operational domains.
  2. Hands-on experience with SAP Ariba or comparable Source to Pay platforms (e.g., Coupa, Jaggaer, Oracle Procurement Cloud).
  3. Demonstrated experience working within complex technical ecosystems including enterprise platforms and vendor integrations.
  4. Proven focus on customer experience design - including journey mapping, user research, and experience measurement - in an enterprise context.
  5. Strong analytical skills and ability to summarize and present information at a management level.
  6. Clear and effective communication skills verbally and in writing. Experience in a global organization preferred.
  7. Knowledge of Agile methodologies and platforms like JIRA and Confluence or similar.
  8. Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  9. Self-motivated, proactive team player who takes ownership and accountability.
  10. Bachelor's/Undergraduate Degree required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  1. 1-3 years of experience in Financial Services or a similarly regulated industry.
  2. Familiarity with adjacent SAP products (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fieldglass) or comparable enterprise ERP and procurement platforms.
  3. Experience with customer experience methodologies including journey mapping, voice-of-customer programs, and NPS/CSAT frameworks in an enterprise context.
  4. Experience with supplier relationship management, onboarding, or vendor risk management.
  5. Experience applying AI/ML to procurement optimization (e.g., guided buying, spend analytics, anomaly detection).
  6. Experience with change management and driving user adoption of new enterprise tools.


About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
NASDAQ
GS
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