Director, Procurement Excellence

About Aspen One

Aspen One renews the mind, body, and spirit with a portfolio that redefines luxury, adventure, and leisure. With world-class and innovative brands and businesses, including Aspen Skiing Company, Aspen Hospitality, and Aspen Ventures, Aspen One propels the expansion of the Aspen ethos globally. Whether it's Aspen Skiing Company providing unforgettable experiences at the confluence of nature, culture, and recreation across its four legendary mountains—Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, Aspen Highlands, and Buttermilk; or Aspen Hospitality elevating guest experiences in unforgettable ways by developing, owning, and operating a growing set of luxury and upper-scale hotels, private clubs, and branded residential properties in prime locations under The Nell and Limelight brands; Aspen One is deeply committed to providing unparalleled service, creative programming, community engagement, and unique opportunities for exploration. The company’s commitment to innovation is central to its evolution, including Aspen Ventures' amplification of the Aspen brand globally through new business lines that embody its values and heritage such as Aspen Collection.

For more than 75 years, the Aspen brand and community has pointed its compass toward new paths, people, and possibilities—and today, as Aspen One, the future is limitless. Inspired by place, united by purpose, defined by you, Aspen One is a leader in sustainability and advocacy, with a legacy of modeling leading-edge solutions and changing policy locally and globally. As a collection of brands driven by tightly held core values, Aspen One aims to inspire a better world. For more information, visit www.aspen.com.

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Position Overview

The Director, Procurement Excellence is accountable for the enterprise operating model, governance, systems, data, analytics, and adoption capabilities that enable Procurement to deliver sustained value. This position leads three direct reports, the Procurement Operations Manager, Inventory Data Analyst, and Procurement Analytics Analyst, and owns the Procurement technology roadmap, the governance of Coupa and related capabilities as enterprise business platforms, and the standards, controls, service model, and performance cadence for a scalable Source-to-Pay (S2P) environment. This position works with the Director of Strategic Sourcing, Finance, Accounts Payable, IT, Operations, and business leaders to align sourcing strategies with the operational capabilities, systems, data, and governance needed to execute them and to translate procurement strategy into scalable processes, controls, and measurable outcomes. This position reports to the Senior Director of Shared Services.

The budgeted salary range for this position is $150,100 - $187,600. Actual pay will be dependent on budget and experience; all our salaried roles are eligible for bonus.

Job Posting Deadline: Applications for this position will be accepted until 12/1/2026.

Essential Job Functions/Key Job Responsibilities

• Set the enterprise Procurement Excellence strategy and multi-year roadmap, including the operating capabilities, governance, organizational priorities, annual planning and prioritization process, and continuous improvement initiatives that support business strategy and long-term value objectives.
• Define and evolve the Procurement operating model and governance framework, including decision rights, service ownership, cross-functional handoffs, escalation paths, resource alignment, and accountability for enterprise standards.
• Partner with the Director of Strategic Sourcing to establish aligned priorities, coordinate strategic initiatives, and ensure procurement systems, processes, supplier enablement, data, and operational resources support sourcing strategies, with consistent communication, coordinated decision-making, and shared accountability for results.
• Translate Procurement Modernization objectives into measurable business outcomes, balancing financial value, operational risk, user experience, standardization, control requirements, and organizational capacity.
• Own the Procurement technology strategy and roadmap, driving continuous optimization of Coupa and the broader Source-to-Pay technology ecosystem to expand functionality, improve user experience, increase automation, strengthen controls, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Partner with the Director of Strategic Sourcing, Finance, IT, Accounts Payable, and business stakeholders to prioritize technology investments and enhancements, evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities and intelligent automation, and establish performance measures for technology-enabled value.
• Provide strategic direction for Procurement Operations through the Procurement Operations Manager, who is accountable for Coupa administration, supplier administration, user support, training, documentation, and operational reporting.
• Oversee platform and supplier enablement governance, ensuring Coupa capabilities, supplier onboarding, catalogs, access, workflows, and related services support business needs, policy requirements, and an effective user experience.
• Monitor operational health and organizational capacity through service-level measures, platform performance, demand and backlog trends, control exceptions, and recurring root-cause themes.
• Provide strategic direction for inventory data governance, procurement analytics, and performance management through the Inventory Data Analyst and Procurement Analytics Analyst, and establish expectations for item master integrity, inventory controls, analytics quality, and cross-functional data ownership.
• Set the enterprise Procurement KPI and value-realization framework, including Finance-aligned savings governance and visibility into spend, compliance, adoption, service, supplier, inventory, data-quality, and operational performance.
• Sponsor dashboards, inventory insights, and decision-support capabilities that identify trends, risks, sourcing opportunities, replenishment needs, root causes, and corrective actions.
• Set the enterprise procurement adoption and change strategy for Coupa and standardized processes, including training, communications, business-readiness plans, adoption measures, and accountability mechanisms.
• Establish and maintain enterprise procurement policies, controls, standards, and exception governance that support compliance, usability, audit readiness, and accountability across the Source-to-Pay lifecycle.
• Lead cross-functional resolution of material process, control, and system issues, maintain a prioritized continuous improvement portfolio, and establish benefit measures and post-implementation reviews.
• Represent Procurement Excellence in executive, governance, and cross-functional forums, build alignment across Procurement, Finance, Accounts Payable, IT, Operations, property leadership, and suppliers.
• Develop a high-performing, service-oriented, control-conscious, and data-driven team by establishing clear priorities, accountability, development expectations, and succession considerations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, finance, information systems, operations, or a related field (Required).
• MBA or advanced degree (Preferred).
• 7 years of progressive experience in procurement, procurement operations, Source-to-Pay, supply chain, shared services, business transformation, or related functions, including 3 years of people leadership (Required).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to set direction, establish governance, define decision rights, and convert strategy into sustainable operating capabilities.
• Deep understanding of Source-to-Pay processes, including requisitioning, approvals, purchasing, receiving, invoice dependencies, supplier enablement, catalogs, master data, and adoption.
• Strong command of spend analytics, KPI design, dashboarding, savings measurement, data quality, root-cause analysis, and executive reporting.
• Ability to oversee item master standards, inventory data integrity, replenishment insights, transaction controls, valuation considerations, cycle-count governance, and operational inventory risk.
• Ability to set enterprise training and adoption strategy and sustain standardized processes across varied stakeholder groups.
• Strong coaching, delegation, prioritization, performance management, workforce planning, and team-development capability.
• Ability to build trust and drive decisions across senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience providing business governance and strategic oversight for an enterprise procurement or S2P platform (Coupa experience a plus).
• Experience in distributed, multi-property, hospitality, retail, food service, or other operationally complex environments.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Ability to stand, type and sit at desk/computer for most of the work shift executing repetitive movements.
• No adverse or hazardous conditions.
• Not required, but preferred to be able to occasionally lift, push or pull 25 lbs. individually or with assistance.

Benefits

This position is classified as a regular full-time position eligible for the following benefits:

• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance Programs
• Flexible Spending Account Programs
• Life Insurance Programs
• Paid Time Off Programs
• Paid Leave Programs
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Employee Ski Pass and Dependent Ski Passes
• Other company perks

For an overview of Aspen One Company's benefits and other compensation visit www.aspensnowmass.com/employment/benefits-and-perks.

Equal Opportunity and Accommodations

Aspen One is an equal opportunity employer (Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran). At Aspen One, inclusion, equity, and diversity are fundamental to fulfilling our vision. To request accommodation during the application and interviewing process, please contact Human Resources at 970-300-7700. Aspen One participates in E-Verify.