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The Opportunity

Position: Chief Executive Officer

Reporting Relationship: Board of Directors

• Expanding and monetizing its intelligence assets through modern data products, analytics, and enterprise subscriptions.
• Reimagining education and certification for an AI enabled procurement environment through stackable, always on learning and executive level offerings.
• Building durable network effects through tiered membership models and premium executive communities.
• Modernizing its operating model, technology infrastructure, and talent base to support product development and global scale.

This next chapter represents both a reinvention and a reaffirmation of ISM's purpose: to remain indispensable to the supply management profession in a rapidly changing global landscape.

• Lead the development and execution of short and long term strategies that advance the organization's Strategic Plan, establishing clear priorities, milestones, and performance indicators.
• Monitor industry, economic, political, regulatory, and legislative trends; identify emerging opportunities and potential risks; and recommend strategic actions to the Board.
• Ensure alignment of departmental and team objectives with organizational strategy, ensuring clarity, accountability, and effective execution across the enterprise.

• Lead ISM through a multiyear business transformation aligned with ISM 2031 roadmap, while ensuring organizational stability, trust, and engagement.
• Partner with the Board, members, volunteers, and staff to build shared understanding and ownership of change initiatives through clear communication and transparency.
• Balance innovation with stewardship to sustain focus on member value, operational effectiveness, and longterm organizational health.

• Build collaborative, transparent, and trusting relationships with the Board of Directors.
• Report regularly to the Board on strategic progress, organizational performance, and other key issues.
• Support the Board to achieve optimal governance effectiveness.
• Ensure compliance with ISM's bylaws and governance policies, while supporting the Board in fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities.
• Prepare Board and committee materials in coordination with the Chair and support effective governance processes.

• Drive ISM's global growth by strengthening member engagement across regions and identifying new opportunities to advance the profession worldwide.
• Cultivate and strengthen global partnerships with peer organizations, academic institutions, industry leaders, and multilateral entities.
• Continuously build upon ISM's portfolio of products and services to ensure continued relevancy and global standards of excellence.
• Serve as ISM's primary representative before key audiences including members, leaders in business, academia, government, media, and others, promoting the supply management profession and the Institute's strategic priorities.

• Recruit, develop, and retain an innovative, mission driven team focused on advancing ISM's strategic objectives and delivering member value. Instill a culture of accountability for achievement of ISM's goals and objectives.
• Partner with the Executive Team to provide ongoing leadership, mentorship, and performance feedback while supporting professional development through training, recognition, and engagement initiatives at all levels of the organization.
• Foster a collaborative, empowering, and high performance culture rooted in ISM's values, with an emphasis on integrity, transparency, diversity, and teamwork.

• Partner with the Chief Financial Officer to oversee financial operations, including budgeting, reporting, and fiscal controls, ensuring strong financial integrity and sustainability.
• Identify and evaluate business opportunities that enhance member value and generate new streams of revenue for ISM and its affiliates.
• Advance policies and initiatives that strengthen ISM's financial health, operational efficiency, and long-term resilience.

• Uphold and model the highest standards of ethics, integrity, and legal compliance across all Society activities.
• Promote the creation, delivery, and enforcement of ISM's ethical education, training, and certification standards.

• Minimum of 15 years of professional experience, including at least 10 years in senior leadership roles with significant responsibility for organizational leadership, P&L management, and operations of comparable scope and complexity.
• Demonstrated passion for and commitment to ISM's mission and the vital role procurement and supply management plays globally.
• Experience leading organizational transformation and strategy development in partnership with a Board of Directors and guiding diverse teams, members, and volunteers to achieve strategic objectives.
• Entrepreneurial executive with strong business and financial acumen and a record of driving innovation, transformation, revenue growth, and longterm sustainability.
• Experience shaping and advancing enterpriselevel brand strategy, including leading or guiding brand management or brand transformation efforts to amplify impact through aligned marketing and communications.
• Technologically fluent leader with experience scaling digital platforms or SaaSenabled solutions, and a forwardlooking perspective on emerging technologies, including AI.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate and deliver a compelling value proposition and build strategic alliances and coalitions that advance organizational goals.
• Effective partner to Boards of Directors, with a reputation for driving collaborative, transparent governance, and proactive communication.
• Experienced people leader with a strong record of attracting, developing, and retaining top talent, and building highperforming, empowered teams in dynamic, resultsdriven environments.
• Effective, credible, and persuasive communicator with outstanding listening, written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and discretion, with the ability to build consensus, navigate sensitive issues, and lead with integrity and empathy.
• Global mindset and cultural fluency with demonstrated success navigating complex, multicultural environments with members and volunteers located in myriad regions across the world.
• Values integrity, ethics, and purpose-driven leadership.
• Travel Requirements: The Chief Executive Officer is expected to travel regularly to represent ISM at regional and Institute meetings, conferences, and events, and engage with stakeholders (both domestic and international).