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Build a controlled, compliant, and scalable procurement environment as our Procurement Policy and Process Manager. You will define and maintain enterprise procurement policies, standards, and end-to-end processes that are practical, adopted, and continuously improved. Partnering across Finance, Legal, Operations, and Procurement teams, you'll reduce risk, boost compliance, and enable consistent, efficient execution, ideal for a detail-oriented leader who drives governance, clarity, and measurable process improvements in a fast-paced enterprise. 

The salary range for this position is $89,000 - $133,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance). 

In addition to the base salary, Perdue offers a competitive benefits package, including medical/Rx, 401(k) with employer match after 1 year, critical illness, accident insurance, dental, vision, life insurance, optional group life insurance, short-term and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts and paid time off.  

Principal Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

• Develop and maintain enterprise procurement policies, SOPs, and standards. 

• Define approval thresholds, controls, and governance requirements. 

• Ensure policies are practical, scalable, and business-aligned. 

• Act as the primary authority for policy interpretation, issue resolution, and exception guidance. 

• Design end-to-end procurement processes -from category strategy, strategic sourcing, contracting, supplier management, risk management to purchase order management. 

• Identify pain points and inefficiencies and lead process improvements. 

• Standardize workflows to reduce variation and risk. 

• Own remediation plans for policy and audit findings, partnering with Internal Audit and Finance to close gaps. 

• Track and report compliance performance metrics and trends to Procurement leadership. 

• Partner with Internal Audit, Legal, and Finance on control requirements. 

• Develop training, job aids, and guidance to support policy and process adoption. 

• Partner with Procurement Transformation Lead on enterprise-wide policy or process rollout and continuous improvement. 

• Educate stakeholders on procurement requirements and expectations. 

• Ensure policies are embedded into tools and daily ways of working. 

• Collaborate with Digital and Transformation leads to embed policies into system design. 

• Partner to build non-compliance reports or dashboards. 

• Ensure new tools and processes comply with governance standards. 

• Support change initiatives by aligning policy evolution with transformation goals. 

Minimum Education and Experience 

Bachelors Degree and 6-8 years of experience in procurement governance, policy, or process excellence, including experience leading teams or workstreams and influencing senior stakeholders. 

The ideal candidate will also have

• A demonstrated experience creating SOPs/standards and implementing compliance routines that stick. 

• Experience partnering across functions to drive enterprise-wide adoption and controls. 

• Strong knowledge of procurement governance, policy, and compliance best practices. 

• Process design and documentation experience (standard work, SOPs, controls, RACI). 

• Train and enablement capability; strong stakeholder communication. 

• Practical problem-solving: ability to simplify and standardize complex workflows. 

• Ability to lead change adoption efforts beyond creating documents. 

Physical Requirements and Environmental Factors 

• Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings. 

• May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another. 

• May need to access files, supplies and equipment. 

• Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment. 

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