Head of Sourcing Enablement & Delivery

The role

You will lead sourcing operational delivery, contracting enablement, and AI transformation. You will build teams, systems, and cross-functional partnerships to enable sourcing and contracting at scale.

What you will do

• Build and lead the organization by hiring and developing managers.
• Own sourcing enablement and delivery operations.
• Lead the sourcing operating rhythm.
• Strengthen contracting by partnering with Legal and Procurement Operations.
• Lead RACI development to define responsibilities and decision rights.
• Create mechanisms to bring sourcing into decisions earlier.
• Build and prove AI-enabled ways of working.
• Define Procurement’s commercial-enablement approach with GTM, Partnerships, Legal, and Compliance.
• Define goals and measures of success for Procurement’s contribution to OpenAI adoption.
• Bring procurement-buyer expertise into GTM to shape demonstrations and industry content.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, vendor management, or commercial leadership.
• Experience building or transforming a procurement capability through rapid growth or change.
• Experience managing managers and developing strong teams.
• Experience working in or closely with marketing, sales, or commercial teams.
• Knowledge of the procurement industry including buyers, technology providers, service firms, and buying priorities.
• Experience turning AI, automation, or enterprise technology into capabilities people use.
• Ability to set direction when the path is not defined.

Nice to have

• Ideally serving procurement buyers

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.