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About the role
- Principal Program Manager at HP driving procurement strategies for service transformation. Oversees cross-functional alignment and delivers comprehensive WBS-enabled procurement processes.
Responsibilities
- End‑to‑End Ownership of WBS Phase 2
- This role is accountable for the overall success of WBS Phase 2 related to procurement.
- Own the overall Phase 2 Purchase Order (PO) strategy, scope, schedule, and delivery outcomes
- Define and maintain clarity on in‑scope vs. out‑of‑scope procurement scenarios, including direct POs, indirect POs, custom services, and third‑party services, as scope evolves
- Ensure WBS usage is consistently and correctly applied across organizations and aligned with other WBS phases
- Procurement Process Design & Business Architecture Leadership
- Acts as the business architect for how procurement processes integrate with WBS.
- Lead future‑state procurement process design for WBS‑enabled POs across systems (SAP S/4HANA, Ariba, CDAX, ITSM) and organizations
- Define how WBS elements are created, maintained, and consumed within procurement workflows
- Ensure alignment between operational usage data and financial cost flows into WBS structures
- Identify, escalate, and resolve design gaps that impact cost visibility, settlement, or financial accuracy
- Cross‑Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment
- Serves as the single point of accountability across multiple organizations.
- Drive alignment across Finance (Controllership, FinCorp, Managed Services Finance), IT (S/4HANA, Ariba, integrations), Procurement, and Managed Services Operations
- Lead Procurement Workstream governance, including scope decisions, prioritization, and dependency management
- Translate business requirements into clear, actionable direction for IT teams and Systems Integrator (SI) partners
- Financial Compliance, Cost Visibility & Controls
- Ensures WBS‑enabled procurement meets financial, audit, and compliance expectations.
- Ensure procurement flows correctly book costs to WBS for:
- Contract‑level cost of services
- Customer and service‑level profitability
- Downstream reporting and analytics
- Validate that direct and indirect PO models support:
- Proper settlement to WBS
- Rate card application
- Auditability and financial traceability
- Act as the business owner for PO‑related financial compliance within the WBS program
- Program Planning, Dependency Management & Delivery Oversight
- Owns delivery health without operating as a task‑level project manager.
- Define milestones, dependencies, and critical path for the procurement workstream within WBS Phase 2
- Proactively manage risks, assumptions, issues, and tradeoffs (RAID) related to procurement enablement
- Ensure alignment between procurement scope, BI enablement, and downstream data consumption
- Drive readiness for go/no‑go decisions at key Phase 2 milestones
- Executive Communication & Decision Support
- Acts as a trusted advisor to WBS and Services leadership.
- Synthesize complex procurement, financial, and system topics into executive‑ready narratives
- Surface decisions required, options, tradeoffs, and implications clearly and concisely
- Represent the procurement workstream in senior forums, including WBS governance, SIA reviews, and transformation leadership discussions
Requirements
- Experience and/or Educational Qualifications
- A. Enterprise Finance & Procurement Acumen
- Strong understanding of how procurement drives cost, accounting, and profitability in a services‑based business
- Experience with end‑to‑end procure‑to‑pay (P2P) processes, including:
- Purchase Requisitions
- Purchase Orders
- Goods Receipt
- Service Entry Sheets
- Invoicing
- Demonstrated understanding of:
- Direct vs. indirect procurement models
- Cost center vs. project (WBS)‑based cost posting
- Ability to articulate how procurement transactions impact:
- Cost of Services
- Contract‑ and service‑level profitability
- Downstream financial and BI reporting
- B. SAP‑Centric Systems Knowledge (Business‑Level Depth)
- Business design expertise with sufficient technical fluency to partner effectively with IT
- Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA concepts, including:
- WBS elements and settlement
- Account assignment in procurement
- Cross‑module integration points
- Familiarity with procurement tools and integrations:
- Ariba ↔ S/4HANA
- Procure360 / CDAX
- Service order settlement models
- Ability to interpret, validate, and challenge To‑Be process flows and design documentation
- C. Program & Portfolio Leadership
- Proven experience owning multi‑workstream transformation programs, including work with external SI partners
- Demonstrated ability to manage scope, dependencies, RAID, and delivery tradeoffs at scale
- Experience leading programs that cut across multiple organizations and executive stakeholders
- 2. Soft Skills
- A. Executive‑Level Communication & Judgment
- Ability to operate effectively in a high‑visibility, executive environment
- Skilled at:
- Distilling complex system and process topics into clear executive narratives
- Presenting options, tradeoffs, and implications—not just status
- Influencing decisions without formal authority
- B. Cross‑Functional Influence & Conflict Resolution
- Proven ability to navigate competing priorities, including:
- Finance control vs. operational practicality
- Global standardization vs. local business realities
- Capable of driving alignment across organizations with different incentives
- Comfortable making decisions and holding the line once alignment is reached
- C. Comfort with Ambiguity & Incomplete Information
- Thrives in environments where scope and design evolve
- Able to:
- Make progress with incomplete requirements
- Proactively identify gaps and force clarity
- Adjust course when required based on business or environmental changes
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