Position SummarySolarWinds is seeking a strategic and commercially minded Global Head of Strategic Procurement to define and lead the company's enterprise procurement, travel, and spend-management strategy.
This senior leader will establish procurement as a strategic capability and enterprise partner-shaping how SolarWinds manages third-party spend, creates value, manages risk, and enables the business. The role will set the vision and operating model for
Strategic Procurement, and Travel; lead leadership alignment across the organization; and build a scalable, data-driven system that converts procurement activity into measurable business outcomes.
This leader will be accountable for a true cost-savings agenda, including incremental realized savings, supplier value, commercial discipline, process effectiveness, and leadership transparency. The role will also provide strategic advisory support for AI-related oversight and decision-making and lead the procurement-related component of the GRC risk review.
Strategic Leadership Priorities- Define the enterprise procurement strategy: Establish the multi-year roadmap, value-creation agenda, category priorities, governance model, and decision rights for procurement, travel, and third-party spend.
- Create leadership alignment: Build proactive partnerships with Finance, Legal, IT, Security, HR, and business leadership to align spend decisions with enterprise priorities, risk appetite, and financial objectives.
- Build the procurement operating system: Establish the processes, data, technology, controls, and performance-management routines required to scale procurement and P2P as an enterprise capability.
- Lead a measurable value-creation program: Set the methodology, baseline, pipeline, governance, and reporting required to deliver and sustain realized savings, cost avoidance, supplier value, and commercial improvement.
- Shape strategic negotiations and supplier strategy: Personally lead the company's most important negotiations and oversee the portfolio strategy, senior relationships, performance, and risk posture for strategic suppliers.
- Advance Travel and employee spend strategy: Establish the strategic direction for travel, expense, corporate cards, preferred suppliers, policy, adoption, and employee experience.
- Own P2P and procurement technology strategy: Serve as senior business owner for the P2P platform and related capabilities, ensuring that technology, workflows, data, and reporting support business adoption and control.
- Transform contracting and spend governance: Partner with Legal and business leaders to improve intake, prioritization, approval velocity, renewal visibility, and accountability for commercial decisions.
OneTrust GRC Governance- Led the procurement-related OneTrust governance process from intake through ongoing monitoring. Establish clear ownership, decision rights, control requirements, and escalation paths across the procurement lifecycle.
Team leadership and organization building - Lead a high-performing Strategic Procurement team with the structure and capabilities required to scale the function over time. Serve as the senior escalation point for complex sourcing decisions, supplier issues, cross-functional conflict, and governance exceptions.
AI advisory LeadershipHelp establish governance, oversight, and decision-making frameworks for AI-related suppliers, investments, use cases, and enterprise risk. Provide procurement and commercial perspective while partnering with the appropriate technology, security, legal, privacy, and compliance stakeholders.
Qualifications- Significant leadership experience in strategic procurement, sourcing, category management, corporate spend, or a related enterprise transformation function.
- Demonstrated record of creating material, recurring value through sourcing strategy, negotiation, supplier portfolio management, demand management, and operating-model transformation.
- Experience establishing or transforming an enterprise procurement, P2P, contract lifecycle, travel, or supplier-governance capability.
- Strong senior-leadership presence, commercial judgment, and ability to influence decisions without relying solely on formal authority.
- Experience leading complex negotiations and managing senior supplier relationships.
- Proven ability to build governance, metrics, investment cases, and leadership reporting that connect procurement activity to enterprise outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience hiring, developing, and leading high-performing teams through organizational change.
- Experience partnering across Finance, Legal, IT, Security, HR, and business functions in a complex organization.
- Familiarity with third-party risk, GRC, control frameworks, and platforms such as OneTrust.
- Practical understanding of AI governance and responsible enterprise decision-making is preferred.
- Exceptional communication, analytical, organizational, and people-leadership capabilities.
- Navan experience preferred.
Measures of Success- Strategic Procurement is recognized as an enterprise value-creation and business-enablement function.
- Incremental realized savings and validated cost avoidance materially exceed the investment in the function.
- Procurement strategy, P2P, travel, contracting, and supplier governance operate through a common, scalable management system.
- OneTrust provides a consistent, risk-based, and auditable governance process for procurement and third-party relationships.
- Senior stakeholders have clear visibility into addressable spend, savings, supplier commitments, renewals, controls, and risk.
- Contracting and purchasing decisions move with greater speed, consistency, and accountability.
- Strategic suppliers are actively managed against value, performance, resilience, and risk objectives.
- The team is appropriately staffed, engaged, developing, and accountable for measurable outcomes.
Leadership Profile- The ideal candidate is an enterprise strategist and builder-someone who can set direction with senior leaders, translate strategy into operating mechanisms, and deliver measurable results through people, process, technology, and commercial leadership.
- This person brings the judgment to challenge the status quo, the credibility to align diverse stakeholders, and the operating discipline to build a durable procurement capability at SolarWinds.
