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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Procurement Enablement Lead

Leads procurement enablement by partnering cross-functionally to simplify workflows, integrate AI/automation, and enhance systems for scalable operations at a high-growth AI company. Requires 8+ years in procurement ops/tech and hands-on experience with enterprise platforms.

216k – 240k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEBusiness Operations

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Partner across Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, Privacy, and Enterprise Technology to improve procurement workflows across the spend lifecycle.
  • Design and improve procurement intake, guidance, and workflow experiences.
  • Translate procurement policies, operational needs, stakeholder feedback, and insights into business requirements for workflows, automation, reporting, and process improvements.
  • Partner with Enterprise Technology to support workflow configuration in procurement systems, including approvals, routing, SLAs, escalation, and reporting.
  • Identify opportunities to use AI, automation, analytics, and decision support tools to reduce manual work and improve service delivery.
  • Analyze operational data, workflow metrics, and feedback to identify friction points, trends, measure adoption, and prioritize improvements.
  • Build and maintain operational reporting, KPI frameworks, and workflow performance insights.
  • Support rollout and adoption of new processes and tools, including testing, documentation, communications, training, and change management.
  • Improve consistency, controls, and data quality across procurement workflows for scalability, reporting, and audit readiness.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in Procurement Technology, Procurement Operations, Finance Operations, or related operational/systems-focused roles.
  • Hands-on experience with procurement and finance platforms such as Zip, Oracle Fusion, VNDLY, Navan, Brex, or similar.
  • Deep knowledge of Source-to-Contract, Procure-to-Pay, Travel & Expense, and Contingent Workforce processes.
  • Experience designing, improving, and scaling operational workflows, automation, and service delivery in complex enterprises.
  • Strong analytical skills with operational metrics, workflow data, reporting tools, and large datasets.
  • Experience using data for trends, adoption measurement, prioritization, and stakeholder communication.
  • Understanding of procurement controls, governance, approval frameworks, SOX-aware design, and risk management.
  • Experience applying AI tools (including GPT-based), automation, analytics to workflows.
  • Translating business requirements into scalable workflows/systems with Enterprise Technology/engineering.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
  • Process documentation, SOPs, workflow maps, and knowledge assets.
  • Leading rollout, change management, training, and communications.

Skills

ZipOracle FusionVndlyNavanBrexAIAutomationAnalyticsProcurement WorkflowsSOX ComplianceKpi ReportingChange ManagementSource-To-ContractProcure-To-Pay
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