VP, Global Procurement

Job Overview

Overview

Build the Future
At McGraw Hill, we are dedicated to delivering digital learning experiences that transform education for learners and educators. Our focus is on creating seamless, impactful products that truly benefit our users while supporting growth and collaboration across teams. We foster a culture that values innovation, teamwork, and a balance between career growth and personal well-being.

How can you make an impact?

As Vice President of Global Procurement leading a team of 10-15 professionals, you will architect and lead a modern, strategic sourcing function that unlocks value across ~$700M in annual indirect spend. Reporting to the SVP of Global Business Services, you will bring transformation leadership, supplier performance expertise, and commercial rigor to enterprise-wide procurement across IT/SaaS/Cloud, Professional Services and Corporate Services.

You will lead from the front, defining the strategy, operating model, and governance that drive measurable business outcomes, including annual verified savings targets, faster time-to-contract, stronger supplier accountability, and improved risk posture.

This role is not about incremental change; it’s about building a next-gen procurement capability that supports digital transformation and elevates supplier partnerships as a competitive advantage.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

What You'll Do:

• Transform the Operating Model: Design, implement and manage a centralized, high-impact procurement organization. Lead a global team across categories for sourcing, vendor management, procurement operations, and analytics while collaborating with key partners, such P2P, Finance, and contract management. Understand current pain points and potential areas of improvement in current processes and operations.
• Strategic Alignment: Partner with Business, Technology, Legal, Privacy, Finance, Security, and HR leaders to align indirect spend strategies with business objectives, innovation, operational efficiency, and risk reduction goals.
• Savings: Own a validated $20M+ value pipeline through demand management, spec alignment, sourcing events, outcome-based contracting, supplier consolidation, and commercial levers like working capital improvements.
• Modern Category Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams with deep expertise in information technology, professional services, packaging/content supply chains, HR/marketing, data, and corporate services. Instill outcome-oriented commercial practices and cost transparency across all categories.
• Contract and Risk Modernization: Co-maintain with the Contract Management Organization contract playbooks and governance frameworks that embed IP rights, use of GenAI, SLAs, data security, accessibility, and regulatory compliance into the sourcing lifecycle.
• Vendor Management: Stand a newly established Vendor Management Organization that is responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive vendor management strategy aligned with the organization's strategic objectives. Ensure alignment of vendor management activities with overall organizational goals and strategic initiatives. Establish, as applicable, a preferred supplier program across McGraw Hill.
• Tech-Enabled Efficiency: Own and manage spend data, classification, and preferred suppliers globally. Partner closely with technology FP&A leadership to understand spend trends. Champion the optimization of spend analytics and strategic sourcing tool(s) such as Apptio.

What You Bring:

• Experience: 15+ years in procurement/strategic sourcing with 8+ years leading global multi-category indirect at scale (>$300M) and a track record of transformation and validated savings.
• Team Management: 8-12+ years of building and managing procurement teams.
• Supplier Relationship Management: 7-10+ years of developing and maintaining partnerships with key suppliers, ensuring risk management, compliance and performance optimization.
• Category Depth: Proven leadership in IT/SaaS/Cloud, Professional Services, and Corporate Services.  Content/print/packaging supply chains; familiarity with manufacturing/print cost levers and sustainable sourcing.
• Commercial Excellence: Expert negotiator with rate-card engineering, outcome-based contracting, and rigorous SOW governance (deliverables, milestones, acceptance).
• Operating Model and Tech: Builder of centralized procurement with category management, spend analysis, guided buying/P2P, analytics, and third party risk management; proficiency with enterprise ERP and leading P2P/E-Sourcing/CLM/TPRM suites; strong BI skills.
• Leadership and Influence: Executive presence, change leadership, and stakeholder management across Product, Technology, Content, Legal, Privacy, Security, Finance, and HR.
• Contracting and Risk Fluency: IP/usage rights (including GenAI outputs), data privacy and information security, accessibility, SLAs/credits, audit/step-in, and subcontracting controls.
• Strategic Planning & Transformation: 7-10+ years of experience leading procurement transformation initiatives, digital procurement initiatives , and aligning sourcing strategies with corporate goals
• Financial Acumen& Budgeting: Strong ability to link procurement performance with financial outcomes and shareholder value.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Deep understanding and experience managing IT Vendors.
• Global experience and knowledge in services procurement and related global compliance regulations.
• Experience managing major IT suppliers (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, etc.)
• Experience managing vendor management systems (VMS) for all labor types

Why work for us?

The pay range for this position is between $140,000 - $265,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered.  Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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