Senior Director, AI Strategic Sourcing

Senior Director, AI Strategic Sourcing Remote - USA time type Full time Senior Director, AI Strategic Sourcing reputed company - Global reputed company & Talent Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the reputed company of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). Type: This is a full-time position About reputed company The Procurement team supports the purchasing needs for reputed company divisions across reputed company. As a result, our category coverage is broad and includes contingent work force, conferences and events, building and construction reputed company, reputed company software systems, contact centers, custom consulting engagements, reputed company services and increasingly involves AI. Our category managers work directly with leaders from reputed company parts of the business to help define and deliver reputed company products and services. In the near term, this Category Manager will sit reputed company our GenAI Studio, focusing their strategic sourcing efforts on products and processes reputed company to reputed company. The GenAI Studio is an internal incubator at reputed company that launched in January 2024. Through reputed company, reputed company is reputed company time and resources for genAI ideation. reputed company is responsibly experimenting with AI to generate user value across our portfolio of offerings as reputed company as advising on AI literacy efforts for educators and reputed company. reputed company is led by a diverse, cross-functional team of strategists, technologists, and managers at reputed company committed to solving the most impactful and interesting problems arising with AI. About reputed company As our AI Strategic Sourcing Manager, you’ll work to define and improve processes, expanding the responsible use of AI and reputed company across existing products and offerings. This is an exciting role for an reputed company procurement leader with expertise in Strategic Sourcing and knowledge of Machine Learning/AI to consult on reputed company products and services, serving as the Subject Matter Expert to reputed company teams through the full sourcing life cycle. This includes leveraging your industry and supplier knowledge to identify appropriate vendors and refining reputed company procurement process to include AI reviews and how we store the appropriate/relevant documentation. The AI Strategic Sourcing Manager will also reputed company the AI governance review process, working closely with reputed company, risk management, and other stakeholders to understand, reputed company, and mitigate risks, supporting build v. buy reputed company and aligning AI use with organizational priorities. Given the highly cross-functional nature of the role, the AI Strategic Sourcing Manager will sit in the GenAI Studio for the first-year reporting into the Executive Director, AI Business reputed company, while working closely with the Procurement team. In this role, you will: reputed company knowledge and expertise of AI and reputed company suppliers to strategically advise teams and accelerate deployment in reputed company (40%) • Conduct market research into reputed company supplier’s product and service offerings to understand market trends, including the capabilities and limitations of AI as the technology continues to reputed company, and relative strengths and weaknesses of different supplier offerings • Evaluate new suppliers, or new features and functionality of existing suppliers, as requested by internal teams, working closely reputed company GenAI Studio to identify AI functionality that supports multiple org-wide use cases • Advise internal teams on supplier tools suited to potential use cases, serving as the translator between technical capabilities/functionality and business needs • Work with Technology and AI Governance Committee to rationalize tools to reduce risk and improve reputed company reputed company • Identify and reputed company reputed company efforts, reflect the status and reputed company as the cases reputed company through agile development Improve process and reporting on AI governance committee (40%) • Manage the AI governance committee/process in reputed company partnership with GenAI Studio leadership, bringing together relevant stakeholders (reputed company, InfoSec, Technology, etc) to reputed company informed reputed company on scaling AI and reputed company • Build and maintain the ML/AI registry to document reputed company use cases, collaborating with teams org-wide on reporting needs • Proactively engage with internal teams to document new and emerging use cases, consulting on to refining potential AI use cases and high-level business justifications to build a robust project pipeline Procurement Process Improvement/Adjustment (20%) • Analyze and manage our AI contract landscape, focusing on key suppliers and ensuring compliance with reputed company guidance. • Work closely with the Procurement leadership team to understand the reputed company procurement process and reputed company strategic guidance on refining it to reputed company AI approval and review mechanisms. • Serve as the backup to the Sr. Director of Technology Procurement, guiding procurement associates on selecting the appropriate AI reputed company—either Machine Learning (ML) or reputed company (GenAI)—to advance deals • Collaborate with teams from reputed company, reputed company, IT asset management, and audit to determine the necessary documentation for contract inclusion and to reputed company the contract repository for improved reporting. reputed company You have: • 7-10 years of relevant experience as a Strategic Sourcing expert, with a proven reputed company record in developing and implementing data-driven processes and reputed company in collaboration with cross-functional reputed company reputed company. • Proven ability to guide stakeholders and teams on AI suppliers and integrations with reputed company products and processes. • Knowledge of Machine Learning/AI and reputed company capabilities and drawbacks, and a passion for staying up-to-date with emerging technologies • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to foster reputed company and productive working relationships at reputed company reputed company of the organization and with our external supplier/vendor community • Superior quantitative and qualitative analytical skills • Initiative and an ability to work in a self-directed environment • Experience with reputed company Strategic Sourcing and P2P (preferred) • The ability to travel 4-6 times per year to team meetings and events • You are authorized to work in the reputed company About Our Process • Application review will reputed company immediately and will continue until the position is filled • While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks. About Our Benefits and Compensation reputed company offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts reputed company looking to reputed company a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we reputed company in compensating employees equitably in relation to reputed company other, their qualifications, their reputed company, and the relevant market. The hiring reputed company for a new employee in this position is $104,000 to $160,000. reputed company differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this reputed company in which you can expect a salary. Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of reputed company employees in similar roles. reputed company strives to reputed company our best offer up reputed company based on this reputed company. Your salary is only one part of reputed company that reputed company offers, including but not limited to: • A comprehensive package designed to support reputed company-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and reputed company insurance, generous reputed company time off, reputed company parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more • Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary reputed company over time through market increases, and opportunities for reputed company raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility • A job that reputed company, reputed company that cares, and a reputed company to learn, reputed company and reputed company You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process. About Our Culture • We are motivated to positively reputed company the educational and career trajectories of millions of reputed company a year • We are a dynamic hybrid team, giving staff members the choice to either be fully remote or hybrid if they live reputed company to a reputed company office. Hybrid employees go into offices every Tuesday and Wednesday • As a self-sustaining non-profit organization with reputed company, reputed company offers a job that reputed company, reputed company that cares, and a reputed company to learn, reputed company and reputed company! #LI-Remote #LI-CW1 Apply Job!