Lead, Supply Chain Digital Enablement

Job description

CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years. Our Vision: Our vision is to become the most admired utility in the United States through the execution of our long-term growth strategy. We have an unwavering commitment to safely and reliably deliver electricity and natural gas to millions of people. Our Commitment: CenterPoint Energy is committed to creating an inclusive work environment where business results are achieved through the skills, abilities and talents of our diverse workforce. At CenterPoint Energy, individuals are respected for their contributions toward our company objectives. We strive for an inclusive work environment across all levels that is reflective of the available workforce in the communities we serve. Job Summary Provides senior-level technical leadership and hands-on expertise for the digital enablement of Supply Chain, driving adoption and optimization of digital procurement platforms, including Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, and Ariba, across the procure-to-pay (P2P) lifecycle. As an individual contributor, serves as a functional lead, solution owner, and trusted advisor for system administration, process enablement, automation, data governance, analytics, and Agentic AI. Contributes to CenterPoint Energy’s Velocity S/4HANA transformation by helping design, configure, test, and deploy scalable digital solutions that support efficient, compliant, and data-driven buying behavior. Accountable for assigned enablement outcomes, solution performance, process standardization, adoption, and continuous improvement across Supply Chain. Essential Functions • Provides functional leadership, configuration expertise, and continuous-improvement support for digital procurement systems, including Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, and Ariba, to enable efficient and compliant end-to-end P2P processes. • Serves as a Supply Chain functional lead and platform subject-matter expert for procurement technologies, supporting solution design, system administration, master data integrity, user access, integrations, and platform governance. • Partners with the Velocity S/4HANA transformation program to design, test, and deploy future-state Supply Chain processes using clean-core and fit-to-standard principles, while supporting business readiness and adoption. • Identifies, designs, and implements process automation and digitization opportunities that reduce manual effort, strengthen compliance, improve the user experience, and embed preventive or detective controls into buying processes. • Leads the evaluation and responsible application of Agentic AI within Supply Chain, including identifying use cases, defining human-in-the-loop controls, establishing guardrails, coordinating pilots, monitoring performance, and supporting scalable deployment. • Designs and improves AI-enabled workflows and autonomous or semi-autonomous agents that can support activities such as intake, guided buying, supplier and contract information retrieval, exception triage, analytics, and workflow orchestration, subject to approved governance and security requirements. • Partners with IT, Cybersecurity, Legal, Risk, Internal Controls, Data Governance, and business stakeholders to ensure AI and automation solutions comply with enterprise architecture, privacy, data protection, model-risk, records-management, and responsible-AI expectations. • Develops Supply Chain analytics, dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, adoption metrics, and process-performance models that support sourcing, spend management, compliance, and operational decision-making. • Establishes and maintains procurement data-governance standards to improve data accuracy, consistency, ownership, lineage, quality, and appropriate use across systems, reporting, automation, and AI solutions. Essential Functions Continued • Bridges the gap between future-state P2P design and day-to-day execution by standardizing processes, resolving root causes, reducing rework, and supporting remediation of control or audit observations. • Maintains digital enablement policies, procedures, standard work instructions, training materials, knowledge content, Supply Chain intranet content, and supplier-portal content within assigned areas. • Partners with IT, Finance, internal stakeholders, and external vendors or contractors to gather requirements, define priorities, manage product backlogs, coordinate releases, conduct testing, and support organizational change management. • Ensures digital procurement processes and configurations align with purchasing policies, delegated authorities, internal controls, and SOX requirements. • Provides technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge transfer to employees, contractors, process owners, and system users without direct people-management accountability. Education Description • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, information systems, computer science, engineering, data science, or a related discipline required. • Advanced degree in a relevant discipline preferred. Experience • 6+ years of relevant experience in supply chain, procurement, digital procurement enablement, enterprise systems, process automation, or a related field. • Demonstrated hands-on experience administering, configuring, implementing, or supporting digital procurement platforms such as Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, and/or SAP Ariba. • Strong knowledge of ERP and P2P system functionality, solution design, integration, testing, release management, adoption, and operational support. • Demonstrated experience with procurement analytics, reporting, data governance, process design, controls, and continuous improvement. • Experience supporting a large-scale ERP, digital, or operating-model transformation, preferably involving SAP S/4HANA. • Practical experience evaluating, designing, piloting, implementing, or governing Agentic AI solutions, AI agents, copilots, or intelligent workflow automation in an enterprise environment. • Experience translating business problems into AI or automation use cases, requirements, process designs, acceptance criteria, control requirements, and measurable outcomes. • Experience with prompt design, agent instructions, tools or connectors, retrieval-augmented generation, workflow orchestration, model evaluation, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop exception handling preferred. • Experience applying responsible-AI, cybersecurity, privacy, data-governance, and change-management principles to enterprise AI solutions preferred. • Supply chain or procurement-specific AI experience strongly preferred. Preferred Certifications: • Coupa and/or SAP certification (S/4HANA or Ariba). • Recognized AI, generative AI, machine learning, data, automation, cloud, or responsible-AI certification. • Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile, Scrum, or product-management certification. • Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) and/or APICS CPIM/CSCP certification. • Lean Six Sigma or business-process-management certification. Required Skills & Competencies Preferred Certifications We want you to know Being a part of the CenterPoint Energy team is more than a career alone. It's an opportunity to make a positive impact. You will be an integral part of enabling everyday life and the pursuit of possibilities for the customers we serve and the communities we share. The vital services we provide are at the core of making our world work, and by sharing your energy with us, we'll create a better tomorrow together. What we bring to you Competitive pay Paid training Benefits eligibility begins on your first day Transit subsidies Flexible work schedule, paid holidays and paid time off Access to discounts at fitness clubs and an on-site wellness center at our headquarters in Houston Professional growth and development programs including tuition reimbursement 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match dollar-for-dollar up to 6% and a company contribution of 3% regardless of your contribution Job Type: Full Time Posting Start Date: 09/16/2026​ Posting End Date: 09/30/2026 This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR §§ 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a), and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. 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