Corporate Planning & Management, Divisional Leadership, Senior Associate, Dallas or New York

Corporate Planning & Management, Divisional Leadership, Senior Associate, Dallas or New York location_on Dallas, Texas, United States

Chief of Staff to the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)

Location : Dallas or New York

About Goldman Sachs : Goldman Sachs is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services across investment banking, securities, investment management, and consumer banking to a large and diversified client base.

Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, sustainability strategy for our operations and supply chain, and governance strategies across the firm.This new role is within our Spend Management & Third Party Risk.

The Procurement organization plays a critical role in managing the firm's global supply chain, driving strategic value, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering innovation across our vendor ecosystem. We are currently undergoing an ambitious transformation program to enhance our capabilities, optimize processes, and leverage cutting-edge technologies to build a resilient, efficient, and sustainable supply chain for the future.

Role Summary : The Chief of Staff to the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) is a pivotal leadership role, serving as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to the CPO. This individual will be instrumental in driving the CPO's agenda, ensuring the effective execution of strategic priorities, and facilitating the successful delivery of the global procurement transformation program. The Chief of Staff will act as an extension of the CPO, providing critical support in day-to-day operations, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and enhancing the overall efficiency and impact of the Procurement organization.

This role requires a highly organized, analytical, and proactive leader with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of operating at both a strategic and tactical level within a fast-paced, global environment.

Key Responsibilities :

• Strategic Planning & Execution : Partner with the CPO to define, articulate, and drive the strategic vision and priorities for the global Procurement organization, including the ambitious transformation program. This involves facilitating OKR (Objectives and Key Results) alignment across the team and tracking progress on business objectives.
• Operational Excellence & Program Management : Oversee business initiatives ensuring alignment with the CPO's vision and firm-wide objectives. This includes managing internal cadences, such as weekly reviews and planning sessions, broad internal and external stakeholder communications, and ensuring decisions are actioned promptly. Support the CPO in developing and implementing scalable processes, tools, and frameworks to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across the global procurement function.
• Communication & Stakeholder Management : Serve as a primary liaison and communication conduit for the CPO with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership, cross-functional teams (e.g., Finance, Legal, Engineering, Business Units), and key external partners. Craft presentations, reports, and communications on behalf of the CPO, ensuring clarity, consistency, and impact of messaging.
• Information Synthesis & Decision Support : Gather, analyze, and synthesize complex information from various sources to provide insights, data, and recommendations that support the CPO's decision-making processes. This includes analyzing key procurement and business metrics.
• Organizational Development & Change Management : Review, design, and execute improvements to the organizational structure and operating model of the global Procurement function. Identify knowledge and skills gaps and help address them, particularly in the context of digital transformation and evolving procurement capabilities. Drive organizational change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and sustained adoption.
• Meeting Management & Preparation : Manage and coordinate executive-level meetings, including setting agendas, preparing comprehensive materials, documenting key decisions, and ensuring follow-up actions are executed to drive accountability.
• Special Projects : Lead and manage high-priority special projects and initiatives as directed by the CPO, often requiring cross-functional collaboration and a "Swiss army knife" approach to problem-solving.
• Employee Initiatives & Talent Development : Collaborate with Human Capital Management (HCM) to develop and implement talent management strategies, including recruitment, retention, professional development, and performance management programs for the Procurement function. This includes identifying knowledge and skills gaps and helping to address them, particularly in the context of digital transformation and evolving procurement capabilities. Foster a strong, inclusive, and equitable organizational culture within the Procurement team, supporting staff development plans and ensuring resources for success.
• Finance & Planning for Procurement : Oversee and coordinate the financial planning, budgeting, and reporting activities for the global Procurement function. This includes building zero-based and driver-based budgets, tracking variances, and re-forecasting periodically. Provide financial analysis and insights to inform strategic decisions and ensure sound financial management in partnership with the CPO and relevant finance teams. Manage the budget development process and monitor expenditure for the procurement department itself.

Required Experience & Skills :

Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a business management, finance, executive or consulting role within a large, complex global organization, preferably in financial services or a related industry.

Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen : Ability to frame complex problems, synthesize diverse inputs, and contribute to strategic prioritization. Deep understanding of how procurement impacts business performance and competitive advantage.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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