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We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.\nUltimately, weappreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment - one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providingtools and solutions that make it easier to get there.\nWho We Are\nWe believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.\nToday, we’repart of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’simportant to them.\nWe’reempowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good - for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.\nWhat We Do\nTransamerica is organized intothree distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprisedof life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long termcare, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.\nTransamerica employs nearly 7,000people. It’spart of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services groupservingapproximately 23.9 million customersworldwide.*For moreinformation, visit transamerica.com.\nJob Description Summary\nWe are seeking a strategic and experienced Procurement Technology leader with a Financial Services / Insurance background to lead the global technology platforms, integrations, data capabilities, and engineering teams that support enterprise procurement. This role is responsible for enabling efficient, compliant, and scalable source-to-pay, procure-to-pay, supplier management, contract management, purchasing, invoice, and spend analytics capabilities across a global insurance organization, Aegon / Transamerica.The leader will partner closely with Global Procurement, Finance, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Data Governance, and regional Procurement business stakeholders to modernize procurement technology, improve operational resilience, strengthen controls, optimize vendor and SaaS ecosystems, and advance automation and AI-enabled procurement capabilities.\nJob Description\nResponsibilities\nLeadership, Technical Strategy & Innovation\nBuild and maintain a forward-looking global Procurement Technology strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities, procurement operating model needs, enterprise architecture standards, regulatory obligations, and regional execution requirements.\nServe as the technology owner and strategic partner for procurement platforms and capabilities, including source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, supplier lifecycle management, contract lifecycle management, purchasing, invoice automation, vendor master, spend analytics, supplier risk, and procurement reporting.\nEvaluate, rationalize, modernize, and integrate procurement technology solutions across global and local environments, balancing business agility, operational risk, total cost of ownership, security, data quality, and enterprise standardization.\nIdentify and implement opportunities to leverage cloud-native platforms, SaaS platforms, API-led integration, automation, workflow orchestration, data management, analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Generative AI to improve procurement productivity, policy compliance, exception management, supplier insight, and decision support.\nPartner with enterprise architecture, information security, data governance, risk, and procurement leadership to ensure procurement solutions comply with internal standards, privacy requirements, third-party risk expectations, audit controls, and regional regulatory requirements.\nEstablish clear technology guardrails and design patterns for procurement solutions, integrations, reporting, data flows, user access, and support models across global and regional teams.\nTeam Management\nLead, mentor, and grow a geographically distributed team of software engineers, platform owners, analysts, and external delivery partners supporting procurement technology globally.\nFoster a culture of inclusion, accountability, engineering excellence, operational ownership, continuous improvement, and customer-focused delivery.\nPartner with Global Procurement, Finance, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and regional technology teams to align priorities, manage demand, resolve conflicts, and deliver measurable business outcomes.\nBuild the team’s capability across procurement processes, financial services controls, SaaS platform management, integration patterns, data quality, cloud engineering, automation, and production support.\nManage resource capacity, budget, vendor performance, delivery plans, and support coverage across multiple geographies and time zones.\nTechnology Execution\nOversee the design, implementation, integration, maintenance, and modernization of global procurement technology platforms and related enterprise integrations.\nDrive reliable end-to-end procurement technology delivery across source-to-pay and procure-to-pay processes, including requisitioning, approvals, purchase orders, supplier onboarding, contract data, invoice processing, payment handoffs, vendor risk workflows, reporting, and analytics.\nEnsure procurement systems are scalable, secure, resilient, supportable, and compliant with financial services / insurance control expectations, including audit readiness, segregation of duties, data protection, records retention, and third-party risk management requirements.\nChampion modern engineering practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure development, release management, incident management, batch/API reliability, and documentation.\nImprove procurement data quality and governance across supplier, contract, spend, and performance data domains.\nLead technology input into procurement transformation efforts, SaaS platform upgrades, ERP integrations, finance transformation initiatives, operating model changes, and global standardization efforts.\nPartner with enterprise data, finance, and procurement analytics teams to strengthen spend visibility, contract compliance reporting, supplier performance insight, category analytics, and executive-level procurement dashboards.\nEnsure production stability through clear ownership, support models, service level expectations, monitoring, problem management, and root cause analysis for critical procurement processes.\nOther Responsibilities\nProvide technical guidance and leadership to development, platform, and support teams to deliver high-quality procurement solutions used by multiple business units, regions, and shared service functions.\nPartner with senior leadership and stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Translate strategic priorities into defined roadmaps, tactical action plans, milestones, measurable outcomes, and execution governance.\nAct as a strategist and champion for enterprise architecture, data governance, cybersecurity, operational resilience, and design principles as they apply to procurement technology.\nParticipate in whiteboard discussions, roadmap reviews, steering committees, architecture forums, vendor reviews, and executive presentations.\nAct quickly and appropriately to solve problems, bring clarity, remove delivery impediments, and minimize business impact from incidents, defects, platform constraints, and unforeseen circumstances.\nDrive a culture of change, excellence, prudent experimentation, and innovation that constructively challenges the status quo while maintaining strong risk, control, and production stability discipline.\nManage budget, expenditures, vendor performance, licensing, contracts, renewals, and technology investment tradeoffs in partnership with Procurement, Finance, and Technology leadership.\nSupport audit, regulatory, risk, and compliance activities by ensuring accurate documentation, evidence, control execution, remediation tracking, and technology ownership across procurement systems.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in a technical field (e.g. computer science, information systems, math, engineering) or equivalent education/experience\nTen years of experience with modern distributed applications, and microservices\nEight years of experience in delivery of large-scale design projects involving interaction with a broad spectrum of enterprise operational functions\nSix years of experience managing a diverse team and leading cross-functional teams.\nStrong background in the execution of DevOps methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deliver, and accomplishments in architecture and strategy.\nExperience managing vendor relationships, including product/service evaluation, contract negotiations, and on-going relationship management\nResults oriented with a strong customer focus\nStrong communication skills to delivery highly relevant and effective information to the Board, executives, and employees.\nAbility to synthesize ambiguous and complex information in a way the leads to substantive actionable outcomes.\nProactive mindset to drive change, question assumptions and push for innovation solutions.\nAbility to work as part of a team and independently\nAnalytical and problem-solving skills\nTechnical communication skills and the ability to present information to all levels of the organization\nProblem-solving and technical communication skills\nAbility to work in a highly matrixed environment and identify, define, and resolve organizational issues\nCreative analytical thinker\nAbility to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster's Degree\nExperience with Procurement platforms like Ariba, Oracle Fusion, Sirion CLM etc.\nExperience with AI, GenAI, advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations\nExperience with solution architecture and implementation\nTechnology or platform certifications (e.g. Oracle Fusion, AWS, Microsoft)\nKnowledge of the financial services industry\nhis job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.\nCompensation\nThe Salary for this position generally ranges between $177,000 - $230,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. 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