Director Procurement Systems and Analytics

Job Summary

The Regional Procurement provides leadership, vision, direction, and structure as part of the Global Procurement Leadership Team. This role drives development and deployment of strategy, tactics through effective development/deployment of procurement resources/leaders to deliver significant value to Quaker Houghton’s bottom line. Responsible for integrating the overall global / regional procurement strategy across BUs, regions, and functions. The scope of responsibility includes indirect, logistics, and direct procurement.

Job Description

The Director - Procurement Systems & Analytics is responsible for leading the strategy, governance, optimization, and continuous improvement of procurement technology platforms and analytics capabilities. This role drives digital transformation across the Source-to-Pay (S2P) ecosystem, enabling data-driven decision-making, operational excellence, compliance, and value creation across the enterprise.

The Director also ensures procurement systems and data architectures support proactive supplier risk identification, monitoring, and mitigation. Partnering closely with Procurement, Finance, IT, Legal, Risk, and business stakeholders, the Director ensures platforms are integrated, secure, scalable, and capable of delivering predictive insights that protect business continuity and enterprise value

The Director partners closely with its stakeholders across the organization to ensure procurement systems are scalable, integrated, secure, and aligned with business strategy. This leader oversees procurement analytics, reporting, automation, and system innovation initiatives to enhance visibility, performance, and savings realization.

 

• Procurement Systems Strategy:
  • Develop and execute the roadmap for procurement systems (e.g., S2P, P2P, contract lifecycle management, supplier management tools)
  • Lead system optimization, upgrades, enhancements, and integrations with ERP and enterprise platforms
  • Establish governance, controls, and data standards to ensure system integrity, compliance, and policy adherence
  • Drive adoption and change management across procurement technologies
  • Serve as the primary liaison between Procurement and IT for system priorities and support
• Digital Transformation & Innovation:
  • Identify opportunities to digitize and automate procurement processes
  • Lead implementation of new tools and technologies to enhance efficiency and visibility
  • Benchmark industry best practices and emerging procurement technologies
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to enable end-to-end process improvements
• Analytics & Data Strategy:
  • Define and implement a procurement analytics strategy aligned with enterprise objectives
  • Oversee spend analytics, supplier performance analytics, savings tracking, compliance reporting, and risk dashboards
  • Build executive-level reporting and KPI frameworks to measure procurement performance and value delivery
  • Leverage advanced analytics, automation, AI/ML, and predictive insights to improve sourcing and supplier decisions
  • Ensure high data quality standards, governance, and master data management
• Supplier Risk Systems & Intelligence (Systems-Focused):
  • Lead the design and enablement of supplier risk analytics frameworks embedded within procurement systems
  • Oversee integration of third-party risk data sources (financial health, geopolitical, ESG, cyber, operational, sanctions, etc.) into procurement platforms
  • Develop automated risk scoring models and dashboards to provide real-time supplier risk visibility
  • Enable early-warning indicators through data monitoring, alerts, and exception reporting
  • Partner with Enterprise Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Cyber teams to ensure supplier risk data is standardized and actionable
  • Drive automation of risk assessments, onboarding due diligence workflows, and periodic risk refresh
  • Establish risk data governance and audit-ready documentation standards within procurement systems
• Leadership:
  • Lead and develop a high performing team, act as a trusted advisor to leadership and stakeholders

Influence cross-functional stakeholders to promote a culture of accountability, integrity and compliance

About Us

At Quaker Houghton, we are experts in the development, production and application of industrial process fluids, lubricants and coatings for the manufacturing industry. We have been an integral part in the growth of the world’s largest industrial and manufacturing companies from aerospace and automotive to primary metal and energy. Today, we have a global presence, with our corporate headquarters located in Conshohocken, PA. Quaker Houghton is a global publicly traded company with a unique collaborative culture that supports career growth for its associates and offers competitive compensation and benefit programs.

What's in it for you

• Competitive pay programs with excellent career growth trajectory

• Paid time off for volunteerism

• Dress for your day; how you dress is determined by what your day may bring

• Opportunity to participate in comprehensive benefit options including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Parental Leave, Holiday Pay, Paid Time Off, Tuition Reimbursement, and Savings Plan

• Work for a global leader in the industrial process fluids industry

Quaker Houghton provides equal employment opportunity for all qualified candidates. Quaker Houghton does not discriminate against any candidate for employment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, affectional or sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, creed, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, veteran’s status, physical/mental disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by U.S federal, state, and/or local employment law. Furthermore, Quaker Houghton is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified candidates with physical and/or mental disabilities.