Senior Engagement Lead – Procurement Advisor

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Oversee every stage of the City's Procurement Transformation Initiative.

• Offer CPO-level insight, strategic guidance, governance design, and support for executive decision-making.

• Direct the Current State Assessment, Benchmarking, Future State Model, Transformation Roadmap, and Final Executive Deliverables.

• Ensure compliance with RFP specifications for senior procurement leadership.

• Promote collaboration across departments and deliver high-level advisory input on procurement modernization efforts.

• Provide recommendations on centralized operating models, organizational design, and policy/structural improvements.

• Work closely with the Project Delivery & Compliance Manager, Senior Data/Financial & Benchmarking Analyst, Lead Deliverables Writer & Communications Specialist, and City stakeholders.

• Guarantee that deliverables meet standards for quality, clarity, rigor, and compliance.

• Oversee benchmarking processes and incorporate best practices.

• Create future-state models, governance frameworks, and transformation roadmaps.

• Assist with presentations, clarifications, and the City's evaluation procedures.

• Ensure compliance, documentation, and alignment with PSSOP.

⛳️ Requirements

• Previous experience as a Chief Procurement Officer (CPO), Deputy CPO, or in a senior procurement executive role.

• Proficient in procurement transformation, centralized operating model design, strategic sourcing, and governance frameworks.

• Experience in complex or decentralized organizations, ideally within municipal/public sectors.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and executive advisory capabilities.

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams through assessment, design, and roadmap development phases.

• Proven executive leadership and strategic advisory experience.

• Experience in designing procurement operating models and governance structures.

• Background in stakeholder engagement and facilitating decision-making processes.

• Skilled in assessment and benchmark analysis.

• Expertise in roadmap creation and future-state planning.

• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.

• Adherence to compliance and documentation standards.

• Demonstrated judgment, strategic thinking, and executive influence.

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory; proof of citizenship must be provided prior to employment.

• Non-citizens, including lawful permanent residents, are not eligible.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.

• Employment on a full-time basis.

• Flexible options for remote work.

• Remote work with occasional travel to government or contractor facilities as needed.

• 8-hour workday scheduled between 6:00am and 6:00pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.

• Observance of government holidays.