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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Procurement Domain SME (Remote, US) - **Company:** NTT DATA Corporation - **Location:** Plano, TX, United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $117,000.0 - $234,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Oracle (Applications), SAP (Applications), Agentic-AI, SAP Ariba, Coupa Procurement - **Published:** October 27, 2026 - **Apply:** https://careers-inc.nttdata.com/talentcommunity/apply/1443859600/?locale=en_US ## About the Role * 12+ years of procurement consulting, operations, transformation, technology-enabled change, or relevant industry experience. * Deep expertise in at least three areas: Strategic Sourcing; Category Management; Spend Analytics; Supplier Relationship and Performance Management; Contract Lifecycle Management; Procurement Operations / P2P; Tail Spend; Supplier Risk; Procurement Analytics and Value Tracking. * Strong understanding of manufacturing and products industries, including Industrial, Chemicals, Materials, CPG, High Tech, or Automotive sectors. * Experience with enterprise procurement and ERP platforms such as SAP, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, Ivalua, Jaggaer, GEP, Zycus, or related solutions. * Strong understanding of how AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI can be applied to procurement decisions, knowledge work, and operational workflows. * Experience building outcome-based business cases and tracking savings, compliance, cash, productivity, and realized value. * Executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate strategy workshops, and communicate with both business and technology teams. * Excellent communication, presentation, proposal development, and structured problem-solving skills. Preferred Qualifications * Prior experience in presales, solution consulting, product management, procurement advisory, or a procurement leadership role. * Experience implementing AI, analytics, automation, e-sourcing, CLM, supplier management, or source-to-pay solutions. * Familiarity with AI-enabled managed services, procurement-as-a-service, or outcome-based commercial models. * Knowledge of responsible sourcing, sustainability, third-party risk, trade compliance, tariffs, and supplier resilience. * Experience working with global delivery teams and cross-functional stakeholders in complex enterprise environments. * CPSM, CIPS, ISM, Lean Six Sigma, or relevant procurement / transformation certifications. What Success Looks Like The successful candidate can confidently engage with a Chief Procurement Officer, identify high-value transformation opportunities, quantify business impact, and shape AI-powered solutions with a practical understanding of GenAI and Agentic AI. They can help construct and validate procurement-specific models, taxonomies, policies, and ontologies; support deal closure; and remain involved through delivery to ensure measurable client outcomes. ## Description Presales & Solutioning * Engage CPOs and leaders across strategic sourcing, category management, supplier management, procurement operations, finance, legal, and supply chain to understand transformation priorities. * Lead discovery and value workshops; translate business needs into AI Native solutions with clear outcomes, value hypotheses, scope, and ROI. * Develop solution narratives, business cases, POVs, proposals, demo storylines, KPI frameworks, and executive presentations. * Demonstrate how GenAI and Agentic AI can improve spend visibility, savings realization, sourcing cycle time, supplier performance, compliance, user experience, and procurement productivity. * Assess process maturity, data readiness, technology landscape, controls, and implementation feasibility to guide opportunity qualification and solution scope. Delivery & Value Realization * Serve as the lead procurement domain SME during client engagements, from diagnostic and design through deployment and adoption. * Define business requirements, process designs, category and sourcing rules, approval logic, exception handling, controls, and success criteria. * Validate AI agents, workflows, domain models, ontologies and automation designs against real-world procurement operations and policy requirements. * Partner with procurement, finance, IT, legal, risk, and business stakeholders to drive adoption, change management, and measurable outcomes. * Establish KPI baselines and track realized value against the approved business case, including hard savings, cost avoidance, compliance, cycle time, and productivity. Product & Practice Leadership * Convert client insights into reusable use cases, accelerators, playbooks, demo assets, process models, and product requirements. * Support the roadmap for ]procurement AI capabilities across intake-to-procure, source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, and supplier management. * Train sales, solution architects, product, and delivery teams on procurement processes, value drivers, buyer personas, and positioning. * Monitor market trends, competitor offerings, procurement platforms, regulatory expectations, and emerging AI-native procurement solutions.