Manager, Supply Chain Digital Enablement

Job Summary

Provides leadership, technical direction, and hands-on expertise for the digital enablement of Supply Chain, driving adoption and optimization of digital procurement platforms (Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, and Ariba) across the procure-to-pay (P2P) lifecycle. Leads a team of professionals responsible for system administration, P2P process enablement, automation, and data governance. Serves as a key contributor to CenterPoint Energy’s Velocity S/4HANA transformation, ensuring Supply Chain digital solutions are designed, configured, and adopted to deliver efficient, compliant, and data-driven buying behavior. Accountable for enablement goals, system performance, process standardization, and analytics that support sound decision-making across the organization.

Essential Functions

• Leads the strategy, configuration, and continuous improvement of digital procurement systems, including Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, and Ariba, to enable efficient and compliant end-to-end procure-to-pay (P2P) processes.
• Serves as the Supply Chain functional lead and system administrator for procurement platforms, overseeing system design, master data integrity, user access, and platform governance.
• Partners with the Velocity S/4HANA transformation program to design, test, and deploy future-state Supply Chain processes, ensuring a clean-core, fit-to-standard approach and successful business adoption.
• Drives process automation and digitization initiatives that reduce manual effort, eliminate compliance gaps in buying channels, and embed proactive controls into everyday buying behavior.
• Leads the development and execution of Supply Chain analytics and reporting, delivering dashboards, KPIs, and insights that support sourcing, spend management, and operational decisions.
• Establishes and maintains data governance standards for procurement data, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance across systems and reporting.

Essential Functions Continued

• Bridges the gap between how P2P should be designed and how it is used day-to-day, standardizing enablement and transactional activities to reduce rework and audit findings.
• Maintains ownership of digital enablement policies, procedures, standard work instructions, and training materials, and oversees Supply Chain intranet and supplier portal content.
• Partners with IT, Finance, internal stakeholders, and external vendors/contractors to gather requirements, prioritize enhancements, and manage platform releases and change management.
• Ensures adherence to purchasing policies, internal controls, and SOX requirements within all digital procurement processes and system configurations.
• Develops and implements enablement tools (e.g., scorecards, adoption metrics, process performance models) to measure and improve system and process effectiveness.
• Leads, mentors, and develops a team (including employees and contractor resources), setting goals, managing performance, and building organizational capability in digital procurement and data governance.

Education Description

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in supply chain, business, information systems, or a related discipline.

Experience

• 6+ years of relevant experience in supply chain, procurement, or digital procurement enablement, including demonstrated experience administering or implementing digital procurement platforms (e.g., Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, Ariba).
• Strong knowledge of ERP and P2P systems functionality, design, and integration, with direct experience in system configuration, process design, and adoption.
• Demonstrated experience in procurement analytics, reporting, data governance, process management, leadership, and staff development.
• Experience supporting large-scale ERP or digital transformation programs (e.g., SAP S/4HANA) strongly preferred.