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About the Role

As a Purchasing & Procurement Associate Director, you will embed and operationalize sourcing frameworks, operating models, and approaches. You will translate category strategies into daily work, provide commercial and data-driven insights, and support initiatives through structured execution and tracking. This is a hybrid role requiring eight days a month in the closest office within the Eastern Time zone.

Responsibilities

Embed and operationalize strategic sourcing frameworks, category models, and governance standards.
Support Category Leaders and Sourcing Business Partners in executing approved category strategies.
Ensure consistent application of sourcing processes, templates, and ways of working across categories.
Create category strategy content, analyses, and materials for Category Leader review and execution.
Execute and support Strategic Sourcing value creation programs, including Partnerships development, M&A, Demand Management, Enterprise Commercial Architecture redesign and implementation.
Track progress, value delivery, risks, and dependencies across sourcing initiatives.
Provide commercial, spend, supplier, and performance insights to support strategic sourcing decisions and category management initiatives prioritization.
Support Supplier Relationship Management programs and critical supplier initiatives through analysis, preparation, and follow‑through.
Maintain and improve data quality, reporting, and insight delivery for Category Management.
Act as a day‑to‑day execution partner to Sourcing Business Partners and Category Leaders.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years in a role with similar skills/responsibilities.
Minimum 2 years in Transformation.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.
Must be residing within 50 miles of a USA office.
Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
Candidates must participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts.

Skills

Execution Excellence: Translating strategy into consistent operational delivery of strategic initiatives and enterprise programs.
BI and Analytics: Advanced skills in BI tools, dashboards, and insight generation for sourcing teams.
AI Enablement: Practical application of AI and GenAI tools to improve insight quality and programs delivery efficiency.
Category Enablement: Experience supporting Category Leaders with content, analysis, and execution.
Stakeholder Support: Effective collaboration with Sourcing Business Partners and category teams to drive value of Strategic Sourcing for the enterprise.
Commercial Insight: Solid understanding of contracts, supplier economics, and value drivers.
Change Enablement and Adoption: Experience embedding new ways of working and driving adoption through structured change management, stakeholder influencing, clear communication, and hands‑on execution.
Governance and Tracking: Experience monitoring initiatives, value realization, and compliance.
Structured Problem Solving: Ability to break down complex initiatives into executable components.
Consulting and Advisory Skills: Ability to operate in an internal consulting role, frame ambiguous problems, develop fact-based recommendations, and translate analysis into clear executive narratives.
Challenging assumptions, facilitating decision-making with senior stakeholders, and supporting leaders through structured problem solving, prioritization, and execution planning.

Location

Hybrid (ET)

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Associate Director

Salary/Compensations

$133,400.00 - $238,400.00 USD
This role is eligible for Bonus.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
401(k)
FSA/HSA
Commuter Benefits
Tuition Assistance Plan
Vacation and Sick Time
Paid Parental Leave

About the Company

Wolters Kluwer (EURONEXT: WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the healthcare, tax and accounting, financial and corporate compliance, legal and regulatory, and corporate performance and ESG sectors.
We help our customers make important decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
Wolters Kluwer reported 2022 annual revenues of €5.5 billion.
The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide.
We are headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.
Ranked by Forbes Magazine as among America’s Best Large Employers for 2022 - #84
Wolters Kluwer secures 2nd place in Newsweek's Most Trustworthy Companies List 2023
WK #1 for gender equality in the workplace in the Netherlands & #47 worldwide for 2023
Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion.
The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide.
Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI-powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity.
We deliver trusted, AI-powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert-validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes.
Nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI-powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains.
We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud-based, AI-powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems.
With a nearly 190-year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes.
For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
As a global organization, we recognize that solving a wide range of complex problems requires diverse perspectives and innovative thinking.
We know that bringing our best to our customers, communities, and other key stakeholders requires a highly engaged and talented workforce – one that represents the diversity of those we serve and the communities where we live and work.
Our global Together we thrive well-being program reflects our commitment to supporting colleagues across physical, mental, social, and financial well-being.
That commitment has been recognized externally through Ragan’s Top Places to Work for Employee Wellbeing: Large Organization in 2024.
More recently, Wolters Kluwer was recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers 2026 and America’s Best Employers for Engineers 2026.
In 2025, Wolters Kluwer was also recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Women.
To ensure we continue to drive innovation that enables us to develop products and services to best serve our customers, we cultivate a workplace culture rooted in mutual respect, bringing forward insights from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to complying with laws requiring equal opportunity in hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, and we do not tolerate discrimination on any of these bases.
We aim to provide a welcoming environment and equitable opportunities for all employees regardless of background, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or religion.
This principle is ingrained in our company values and articulated in our Code of Business Ethics.