Job DescriptionThe Principal Procurement Process and Governance Manager will support Indirect Procurement Leadership in tracking, monitoring, and reporting progress against milestones and goals. The Indirect Procurement team manages an ongoing roadmap of category management strategies designed to optimize cost, performance and reduce risk in our indirect supply chain. This role will lead efforts to monitor projects, programs and initiatives on that roadmap to track process and report results. This role will work across categories to ensure roll-up visibility of savings, spend under management, schedule and milestones. This role is based in Austin, TX, with an expectation of being in the Store Support office five days a week. Responsibilities: + Provides weekly project status report to internal and external stakeholders, including current progress report, look ahead project plan, list of all open items which require decision, and escalation notice for any risks to budget or schedule. + Partners with stakeholder and Procurement Leadership to proactively communicate with customer base regarding store changes, ensuring accurate project planning to minimize construction impact to business, product, and operations labor. + Establishes and upholds program/project guidelines, processes, and controls to ensure project performance and risk mitigation. + Advises and consults with Team Members and key stakeholders organization-wide on significant and complex Indirect Procurement matters. + Accountable for ensuring projects stay on timeline and creates alternate plans as circumstances impact the timeline. + Primary point of contact for leadership, operations and strategists throughout the project process. + Monitors the item review processes across multiple teams and initiatives. + Ensures team-wide sharing of best practices and provides process / procedural training and advice to Team Members as required. + Oversees the usage and financial reports for patterns, trends, and issue identification and resolution. + Works with WFM’s leadership to define, develop, and drive execution of continuous process improvement. Skills: + Demonstrates an expert understanding of the standard project management methodologies and requirements. + Expertly plans, estimates, organizes, and monitors projects with team members. + Advanced ability to oversee and advise on project management issues and assist with overcoming barriers. + Expert ability to keep multiple projects on track financially, creatively, and in accordance with stakeholder deadlines. + Advanced ability in the use of standard procurement tools and methods (strategy design, RFx, business review, etc.) + Advanced skills in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, with exceptional business writing skills + Regularly interacts with colleagues and third-party representatives up to the senior leadership level. + Provides process and policy advice to Team Members and vendors / suppliers. + Provides function-wide process advice and insight. + Provides guidance to the less experienced Team Members. + Consults with and advises senior-level stakeholders and leaders internally and externally. Education & Experience: + BA/BS degree and 6-8 years’ relevant Procurement Project Management experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Whole Foods Market hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs. Whole Foods Market works with job sites like Indeed, LinkedIn, and ZipRecruiter to promote opportunities at our company. Please be aware that other career sites may not be accurate or up to date and may even be fraudulent. We encourage and recommend all candidates to apply via our site.