Procurement Excellence Contractor

Description

We are looking for a Procurement Excellence Contractor to join a long-term contract engagement supporting procurement improvement efforts within the energy and natural resources sector for our client in Bloomington, Minnesota. This role will focus on evaluating existing procurement activities, strengthening oversight practices, and introducing practical enhancements to workflows, controls, reporting, and supporting tools. The position partners closely with teams across procurement, finance, legal, IT, development, construction, and operations to improve consistency, reduce risk, and enable more effective decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate end-to-end procurement activities to understand how requests, sourcing, contracting, purchase orders, supplier onboarding, and performance tracking are currently managed.

• Facilitate cross-functional discussions to uncover inefficiencies, control weaknesses, duplicated effort, and breakdowns in ownership across the procurement lifecycle.

• Design improved procedures and supporting documentation, including process maps, role definitions, service expectations, checklists, and standardized templates.

• Maintain and prioritize an improvement roadmap by tracking action items, dependencies, open issues, and progress updates for procurement leadership.

• Examine governance practices such as approval workflows, delegated authority, sourcing documentation, and purchasing controls, then recommend practical updates to strengthen compliance.

• Develop and manage procurement guidance materials, playbooks, training content, and controlled templates with clear version ownership and review schedules.

• Partner with system stakeholders to enhance workflow automation, improve NetSuite-related data quality, and support more reliable reporting capabilities.

• Increase visibility into supplier risk and procurement performance by helping establish useful metrics, savings tracking, and consistent reporting outputs.

Requirements • Experience in compliance, procurement oversight, audit, or risk-focused operational improvement roles.

• Strong knowledge of internal controls, policy governance, and process assessment methodologies.

• Ability to identify operational risk, evaluate control effectiveness, and recommend practical corrective actions.

• Background working with cross-functional teams such as procurement, finance, legal, IT, and operations.

• Familiarity with compliance review activities, audit support, and risk assessment practices.

• CRISC certification is preferred.

• Understanding of AML and broader compliance frameworks is an advantage.

• Strong communication and documentation skills with the ability to lead working sessions and produce clear process materials.

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