Director, Indirect Procurement Transformation

Reference #: R88842Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living. Smith+Nephew is accelerating a multi-year transformation of its Indirect Procurement function-simplifying processes, elevating decision quality, and increasing the speed and consistency of value delivery across the enterprise. To drive this ambition, we are hiring a Director, Indirect Procurement Transformation, a critical execution leader who will serve as the operational and strategic right hand to the SVP, Global Indirect Procurement.This role is the central orchestrator ensuring vision becomes reality -turning strategy into action, orchestrating cross-functional alignment, and embedding modern procurement processes, capabilities, and ways of working. You will drive structure, discipline, and visibility across the function while enabling teams to deliver impact with greater speed and consistency. This is not an administrative support role. It is a highly strategic, hands-on leadership position suited for a strong procurement process expert with exceptional orchestration, influence, and delivery capability.What will you be doing?1. Transformation Leadership & ExecutionLead the design, management, and execution of the Indirect Procurement transformation roadmap, ensuring clarity on milestones, owners, success metrics, and governance.Co-create and embed standard ways of working across the global organization, partnering closely with the Procurement Excellence team and OpEx Business Partner.Identify execution risks early, escalate where needed, and proactively remove barriers.Serve as the central integration point across workstreams to ensure alignment, sequencing, and resource coordination.Drive operational rigor and accountability for transformation progress.2. Strategic Program Management for the SVP Indirect Procurement & Leadership TeamManage functional priorities, ensure follow-through on leadership decisions, and maintain clarity of direction across the Indirect Procurement organization.Prepare and facilitate Leadership Team meetings, ensuring discussions lead to clear decisions, action owners, and measurable progress.Provide strategic insight and analysis to support enterprise-aligned decision making.Lead capability-building efforts, including training programs and the long-term Strategic Workforce Plan in partnership with HR.Help cultivate a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.3. Business Alignment & Strategic PrioritizationIntegrate Indirect Procurement inputs into enterprise processes including annual planning, financial cycles, and strategic planning.Ensure Indirect Procurement priorities are aligned to business needs, growth goals, and value creation opportunities.Partner with senior Finance, HR, Commercial, and functional leaders to strengthen transparency, trust, and alignment.Ensure quantitative reporting and metrics are accurate, consistent, and enable corporate objectives.4. Performance Management & KPI GovernanceBuild and maintain a unified Indirect Procurement KPI framework-covering savings, value, working capital, risk, performance, and transformation milestones-in partnership with Global Procurement Excellence and our operating system.Drive consistency and rigor in reporting cycles, including annual planning and financial submissions.Enable visibility of performance and progress across global teams.5. Best Practices, Benchmarking & Process ExcellenceLead or support business reviews, opportunity assessments, and top-down planning.Benchmark against external best practices to ensure Smith+Nephew stays ahead of evolving procurement standards.Drive implementation of core methodologies and frameworks (e.g., stakeholder mapping, process governance,

Created: 2026-03-12