What can you expect?

Leadership & Strategy: Lead a high-performing procurement team, setting strategic direction, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.Strategic Leadership & Vision: Lead and shape the procurement function at an enterprise level, setting strategic priorities and fostering a culture of innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.Organizational Impact: Drive large-scale sourcing strategies, deliver significant cost savings, and mitigate risks across global operations.Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with C-suite executives and senior leaders to align procurement initiatives with organizational goals, ensuring procurement adds measurable value.Governance & Risk Oversight: Establish and oversee robust controls, compliance, and governance frameworks to uphold procurement integrity and mitigate enterprise risks.Advanced Analytics & Reporting: Lead the development of enterprise-wide reporting, KPI management, and dashboards to monitor procurement performance, supplier health, and process efficiencies.Innovation & Digital Transformation: Spearhead automation initiatives, workflow streamlining, and controls embedding to enhance procurement transparency, governance, and operational agility.

What’s in it for you?

Join a global leader committed to your strategic growth and leadership development. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence procurement practices at the highest level, lead a talented team, and deliver transformative business value. You will operate in an inclusive environment that values strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and innovation, with the scope to shape procurement policies and practices that impact the organization’s future success.

Your key responsibilities:

Leadership & Strategic Direction

Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing global procurement team (150+ colleagues), fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous learning.Define and execute the procurement strategy aligned with organizational goals, focusing on cost optimization, supplier innovation, and risk mitigation.Establish clear objectives, KPIs, and performance metrics for the procurement function, ensuring alignment with enterprise prioritiesWork with regional leads to drive process standardization

Governance, Controls & Compliance

Develop and oversee comprehensive controls, compliance, and risk management frameworks to uphold procurement integrity and legal standards.Conduct regular audits, supplier evaluations, and risk assessments to ensure adherence to policies and mitigate enterprise risks.

Advanced Reporting & KPI Management

Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide reporting frameworks, dashboards, and KPIs to monitor procurement performance, supplier health, and savings realization.Drive automation of reporting processes, improve data accuracy, and embed controls to enhance procurement governance and transparency.Oversee queue management activities, ensuring timely resolution of procurement requests and high service levels.

Process Optimization & Digital Transformation

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline workflows, automate routine activities, and improve data governance.Lead enterprise-wide process improvement projects to reduce cycle times, increase stakeholder satisfaction, and embed best practices.

Operations Management

Design and establish operations framework by defining clear objectives, outlining key processes, setting governance structures, and standardizing workflows to ensure alignment with business goals.Implement process change management and controls by systematically identifying change needs, assessing impacts, communicating with stakeholders, training teams, and monitoring execution through robust control mechanisms.Drive process hygiene, track, and report key deliverables by maintaining process standards, conducting regular audits, utilizing tracking tools, generating performance reports, and enforcing accountability for continuous improvement.Identify process gaps and drive towards Best-in-Class metrics by analyzing data, benchmarking against industry standards, performing root cause analysis, and implementing targeted improvements to elevate performance.Partner with upstream and downstream processes to ensure seamless user experience by fostering cross-functional collaboration, aligning handoffs, sharing real-time information, and continuously optimizing end-to-end workflows

What you need to have:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, or a related field.15+ years of progressive experience in procurement,  Tactical sourcing. Accounts payables, with proven senior leadership experience.Deep expertise in KPI management, enterprise reporting, and procurement controls.Strong proficiency in data analysis tools (e.g., Power BI, Excel) and procurement systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Ariba).Demonstrated success in leading large teams, managing stakeholder relationships at senior levels, and influencing enterprise-wide decision-making.Extensive knowledge of procurement policies, compliance standards, risk management, and governance frameworksIdentify transformation opportunities by deploying RPA, process standardization to drive productivity and efficiencyOversee functional level programs while mentoring the team and organizing stakeholders in setting up the business and operational drives

What makes you stand out?

Proven track record of leading global procurement organizations, delivering enterprise-wide cost savings, and implementing strategic sourcing initiatives.Demonstrated ability to develop and embed enterprise-level controls, dashboards, and automation solutions that enhance procurement governance and transparencyDeep understanding of indirect procurement categories, market dynamics, and supplier relationship management at a senior levelStrong strategic mindset with the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders and drive organizational change.Experience in leading large-scale transformation projects, digital initiatives, and procurement governance frameworks.

Marsh McLennan is the world’s leading professional services firm, offering data-driven risk solutions through its four market-leading businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. With over 45,000 colleagues across 130+ countries, we are committed to diversity, inclusion, and flexible hybrid work arrangements. Our mission is to help clients navigate complex risks and opportunities globally.

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.