Acts as the procurement subject matter expert for AI-powered digital worker solutions. Translates source-to-pay processes, spend optimization opportunities, business rules, and procurement workflows into functional requirements, decision logic, use cases, and operating playbooks. Collaborates with customers, product, engineering, and AI teams on solution design, training, validation, workshops, pilots, and deployments. Advises on sourcing, supplier rationalization, compliance, analytics, process optimization, and procurement transformation.
- Act as the procurement functional expert for Recode’s procurement digital worker solutions
- Bring strong knowledge of direct spend and indirect spend categories, sourcing practices, procurement operations, and stakeholder workflows
- Work with customers to understand current-state procurement processes, pain points, business rules, and decision-making workflows
- Translate procurement use cases into functional requirements, workflows, exception logic, business rules, and AI-agent task definitions
- Support solution design for use cases such as:
- spend analytics
- maverick spend detection
- tail spend optimization
- supplier consolidation / rationalization
- sourcing support
- contract compliance monitoring
- PR-to-PO workflow optimization
- category insights and opportunity analysis
- Define process scenarios, data requirements, KPIs, success criteria, and business outcomes for pilots and production deployments
- Help train and validate procurement digital workers using real-world procurement language, policies, and operating models
- Partner with engineering and product teams to refine prompts, decision frameworks, workflows, and human-in-the-loop interventions
- Support customer workshops, discovery sessions, solution demonstrations, and value articulation
- Create functional documentation including business requirements, use case definitions, decision trees, test cases, and operating playbooks
- Advise on procurement best practices, compliance controls, policy adherence, and enterprise change management
- Contribute to thought leadership and solution roadmap for procurement-focused digital workers
Requirements
We are looking for a strong Procurement Domain Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join our Recode Digital Worker team as a Functional Consultant. This role is ideal for a procurement professional who combines deep functional expertise with a strong understanding of process transformation, spend analytics, and automation opportunities across the source-to-pay lifecycle.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience across direct and indirect procurement, and should have led or supported initiatives involving spend optimization, maverick spend analysis, tail spend management, supplier rationalization, compliance improvement, and procurement transformation.
In this role, you will work closely with product, engineering, AI, and customer teams to help shape and deploy procurement-focused digital workers that solve real enterprise problems.
Required Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, Operations, Engineering, or related field
- 8+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, procurement consulting, or procurement transformation roles
- Strong functional understanding of direct procurement and indirect procurement processes and spend categories
- Proven experience in one or more of the following:
- spend optimization programs
- maverick spend analysis
- tail spend optimization
- supplier performance and rationalization
- procurement compliance improvement
- sourcing and category strategy development
- purchase requisition and purchase order process optimization
- Experience working with procurement data, spend taxonomies, supplier data, and purchasing analytics
- Strong knowledge of source-to-pay / procure-to-pay processes and procurement operating models
- Ability to convert business problems into structured functional requirements and solution logic
- Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualification:
- Experience in procurement transformation or consulting engagements for large enterprises
- Familiarity with procurement platforms such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle Procurement, Jaggaer, Ivalua, Zip, or similar tools
- Exposure to procurement analytics, spend cubes, supplier master data, contract data, and AP / invoice-related workflows
- Understanding of policy controls, approval workflows, exception handling, and compliance monitoring in procurement operations
- Ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, designers, and AI teams
- MBA or relevant procurement / supply chain certification is a plus
Benefits
At Recode, we are building domain-specific digital workers that transform how enterprises operate. As part of our team, you will help embed deep procurement expertise into next-generation AI-led solutions that drive measurable business outcomes across sourcing, buying, compliance, and spend management.
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