[Hiring] AI Procurement Domain SME @NTT DATA Services

Role Description

We are currently seeking an AI Procurement Domain SME (Remote, US) to join our team in Plano, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Key Responsibilities

• Engage CPOs and leaders across strategic sourcing, category management, supplier management, procurement operations, finance, legal, and supply chain to understand transformation priorities.
• Lead discovery and value workshops; translate business needs into AI Native solutions with clear outcomes, value hypotheses, scope, and ROI.
• Develop solution narratives, business cases, POVs, proposals, demo storylines, KPI frameworks, and executive presentations.
• Demonstrate how GenAI and Agentic AI can improve spend visibility, savings realization, sourcing cycle time, supplier performance, compliance, user experience, and procurement productivity.
• Assess process maturity, data readiness, technology landscape, controls, and implementation feasibility to guide opportunity qualification and solution scope.
• Serve as the lead procurement domain SME during client engagements, from diagnostic and design through deployment and adoption.
• Define business requirements, process designs, category and sourcing rules, approval logic, exception handling, controls, and success criteria.
• Validate AI agents, workflows, domain models, ontologies and automation designs against real-world procurement operations and policy requirements.
• Partner with procurement, finance, IT, legal, risk, and business stakeholders to drive adoption, change management, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish KPI baselines and track realized value against the approved business case, including hard savings, cost avoidance, compliance, cycle time, and productivity.
• Convert client insights into reusable use cases, accelerators, playbooks, demo assets, process models, and product requirements.
• Support the roadmap for procurement AI capabilities across intake-to-procure, source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, and supplier management.
• Train sales, solution architects, product, and delivery teams on procurement processes, value drivers, buyer personas, and positioning.
• Monitor market trends, competitor offerings, procurement platforms, regulatory expectations, and emerging AI-native procurement solutions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of procurement consulting, operations, transformation, technology-enabled change, or relevant industry experience.
• Deep expertise in at least three areas: Strategic Sourcing; Category Management; Spend Analytics; Supplier Relationship and Performance Management; Contract Lifecycle Management; Procurement Operations / P2P; Tail Spend; Supplier Risk; Procurement Analytics and Value Tracking.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing and products industries, including Industrial, Chemicals, Materials, CPG, High Tech, or Automotive sectors.
• Experience with enterprise procurement and ERP platforms such as SAP, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, Ivalua, Jaggaer, GEP, Zycus, or related solutions.
• Strong understanding of how AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI can be applied to procurement decisions, knowledge work, and operational workflows.
• Experience building outcome-based business cases and tracking savings, compliance, cash, productivity, and realized value.
• Executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate strategy workshops, and communicate with both business and technology teams.
• Excellent communication, presentation, proposal development, and structured problem-solving skills.

Requirements

• Prior experience in presales, solution consulting, product management, procurement advisory, or a procurement leadership role.
• Experience implementing AI, analytics, automation, e-sourcing, CLM, supplier management, or source-to-pay solutions.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled managed services, procurement-as-a-service, or outcome-based commercial models.
• Knowledge of responsible sourcing, sustainability, third-party risk, trade compliance, tariffs, and supplier resilience.
• Experience working with global delivery teams and cross-functional stakeholders in complex enterprise environments.
• CPSM, CIPS, ISM, Lean Six Sigma, or relevant procurement / transformation certifications.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible spending or health savings account.
• Life and AD&D insurance.
• Short and long term disability coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Employee assistance.
• Participation in a 401k program with company match.
• Additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.