Corporate Planning & Management, Divisional Leadership, Senior Associate, Dallas

Chief of Staff to the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)

Location: Dallas

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:

• Experience:
  
  
  
  • 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.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting senior leadership, with a proven track record of managing cross-functional initiatives and driving organizational change.
  • Experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives, with a focus on delivering measurable results.
  • Proven experience in financial management, budgeting, and forecasting within a corporate function, ideally procurement or a related operational area.
  • Experience in developing and implementing employee engagement, talent development, or organizational culture initiatives.
  • Understanding of procurement, supply chain management, or operations, with exposure to global functions though not required, is a preference
  
  
• Skills:
  
  
  
  • 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.
  • Exceptional Communication: Superior written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely to diverse audiences, including executive leadership.
  • Financial Acumen: Strong analytical skills with a track record of deriving insights from various data sets, particularly in financial and operational metrics. Ability to manage budgets, track financial performance, and contribute to financial planning for a functional area.
  • People Leadership & Development: Demonstrated ability to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, support staff development, and contribute to talent management strategies.
  
  
• Technical Skills: Proficient to advanced skills with MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
• Education: Bachelor's degree required