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The Firm provides an integrated suite of federal, state, local, and international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis, including tax recovery, consulting, advocacy, compliance, and technology services. At Ryan, we liberate our clients from the burden of being overtaxed, freeing their capital to invest, grow, and thrive.The Vice President, Global Procurement is an enterprise leader responsible for defining and executing Ryan’s global procurement vision, strategy, and operating model. This role will lead the continued maturation of Ryan's Procurement function into a scalable enterprise capability by strengthening the operating model, governance, technology, and organizational effectiveness needed to support the Firm's long-term growth. This role provides leadership and oversight of the global strategic procurement and sourcing function while partnering closely with Finance, Treasury, Accounts Payable, and other operational stakeholders across the broader Procure-to-Pay (P2P) ecosystem. While this position does not directly own Accounts Payable or Treasury operations, it plays a critical role in driving procurement governance, sourcing strategy, supplier management, spend optimization, and enterprise-wide procurement transformation initiatives.\nAs a member of the extended leadership team, the Vice President partners closely with executive leadership to drive measurable enterprise value through cost savings, operational efficiencies, supplier rationalization, risk mitigation, and scalable procurement practices. Success in this role will be measured through realized savings, KPI achievement, supplier optimization, spend visibility, acquisition integration speed, and overall value creation delivered to the Firm.\nThis position oversees strategic sourcing and procurement operations across all regions and is highly focused on driving execution in a complex, global environment. A significant area of focus includes rapidly integrating acquired companies into Ryan’s procurement ecosystem to identify savings opportunities, consolidate vendors, renegotiate contracts, terminate redundant agreements, and accelerate synergy realization across the enterprise.\nDuties and Responsibilities, as they align to Ryan’s Key Results\nPeople:\nProvide executive leadership for the global procurement organization, including organizational design, talent strategy, and capability development\nFoster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, execution, and innovation\nPartner with Finance, Treasury, Accounts Payable, and Internal Audit to support strong financial governance, procurement controls, and compliance frameworks\nDevelop leadership bench strength and succession planning across procurement functions\nChampion change management initiatives tied to procurement transformation, AI-enabled automation, and global standardization\nClient:\nAct as a trusted advisor to 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