{"id":3755682,"url":"https://alion.io/job/eaton-director-procurement-excellence","title":"Director - Procurement Excellence","company":{"id":6044,"name":"Eaton","domain":"eaton.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/eaton","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":301,"ghost_share":0.04,"stale_share":0.402,"repost_share":0.093,"time_to_fill_p50_days":42,"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Dublin, Ireland"],"countries":["IE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Human-in-the-Loop","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T09:44:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T18:56:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":11,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":11},"description":"Eaton is currently seeking a Director - Procurement Excellence.\nJob Summary:\nThe Director - Procurement Excellence will lead the global procurement transformation agenda, creating a scalable operating model that strengthens value creation, governance, digital capability and execution discipline across end-to-end procurement. Based in Dublin, Ireland, the role will partner with global procurement, business and functional leaders to translate enterprise priorities into standard processes, integrated digital solutions, measurable performance and sustained adoption.\nThe role will establish the Procurement Excellence roadmap and lead portfolio execution across process maturity, source-to-contract, category management, contracting, supplier management, value creation, data and analytics, capability building and change management. A central priority is the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence in procurement, including practical use cases, data readiness, controls, human oversight and benefits realisation.\nJob Responsibilities:\nSet and execute the global Procurement Excellence strategy and multi-year transformation roadmap, aligned with enterprise growth, productivity, resilience, working capital and compliance priorities.\nLead the design and deployment of a consistent procurement operating model, including governance, decision rights, standard work, process ownership, controls and performance management.\nBuild and manage a prioritised transformation portfolio across category management, sourcing, contracting, supplier management, procure-to-pay, new product introduction and value analysis/value engineering.\nEstablish procurement maturity assessments, benchmarks and roadmaps; translate findings into sequenced initiatives with clear owners, investment cases, adoption measures and business outcomes.\nSponsor simplification, standardisation and digitalisation of procurement processes and tools, ensuring solutions are scalable, integrated, user-centred and embedded in day-to-day work.\nDefine and lead the artificial intelligence strategy for procurement. Identify and scale high-value use cases such as category intelligence, spend and market insights, bid analysis, should-cost support, contract intelligence, supplier risk signals, guided decision support and automated standard work.\nEstablish responsible artificial intelligence governance, including data quality, security, privacy, legal and ethical controls, human validation, model performance monitoring and clear accountability for decisions.\nPartner with Digital, Information Technology, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Operations and business teams to integrate procurement platforms, data and workflows and create a trusted single source of truth.\nStrengthen value creation and value preservation through total-cost-of-ownership thinking, demand and specification challenge, working capital, contract compliance, supplier innovation and leakage reduction.\nDefine enterprise procurement metrics and management routines covering value, cycle time, adoption, compliance, quality, risk, user experience and capacity creation; provide transparent insights to senior leadership.\nLead enterprise change management for new processes and technology, including stakeholder alignment, communications, training, role-based capability building, adoption reinforcement and sustainment.\nBuild a global procurement capability framework and learning architecture for category leaders, sourcing teams and procurement professionals, including digital and artificial intelligence fluency.\nDevelop and lead a high-performing global network of process owners, subject-matter experts and transformation resources; coach teams and create clear accountability for delivery.\nBenchmark external leading practices and emerging technology, translating relevant innovation into pragmatic pilots and scaled enterprise solutions.\nPrepare investment proposals, resource plans and benefits cases; govern delivery, risks, dependencies and benefits realisation across the Procurement Excellence portfolio.\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required. Master’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, technology or a related field preferred.\nMinimum 15 years of progressive procurement, supply chain or transformation experience, including significant leadership of global, enterprise-wide programmes and cross-functional teams.\nTechnical knowledge:\nDeep knowledge of end-to-end procurement, including category management, strategic sourcing, contracting, supplier management, source-to-contract and procure-to-pay.\nProven leadership of large-scale process, operating-model and digital transformations.\nStrong understanding of procurement data, analytics, workflow platforms, automation and artificial intelligence use cases.\nDemonstrated ability to establish artificial intelligence governance, human-in-the-loop controls and measurable value realisation.\nExpertise in programme and portfolio management, Lean or continuous improvement, change management, performance systems, business cases and benefits tracking.\nExperience with supplier risk, resilience, sustainability, working capital and regulatory compliance.\nSoft Skills:\nEnterprise leadership and strategic thinking.\nExecutive-level influencing and communication.\nStrong judgement, integrity and accountability.\nAbility to translate complex issues into clear choices and action.\nChange leadership across cultures and functions.\nCustomer-focused, collaborative and outcomes-oriented.\nTalent development and coaching.\nComfort operating with ambiguity, setting priorities and sustaining execution across a global matrix.\nAll positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.\nWe are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6383,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Ireland","iso":"IE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Aerospace Manufacturing","Energy Management","Automotive Components"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-04T16:51:22Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"IE","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"Irish employment permits in 12 months: 10","filings_12m":10,"filings_prev_12m":5,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Employment permits","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-09T07:32:21+00:00","sources":["Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: employment permits issued to companies"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":10,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/eaton-director-procurement-excellence","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/eaton-director-procurement-excellence.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T21:29:02Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9943,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6044},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6044"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Featon-director-procurement-excellence"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Featon-director-procurement-excellence"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Featon-director-procurement-excellence"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/eaton-director-procurement-excellence\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Featon-director-procurement-excellence"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3755682}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"eaton.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3755682},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}