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Global Procurement Change & Capability Lead

United Kingdom, London Employment contract · Job Posted June 10, 2026
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We’re looking for a Global Procurement Change & Capability Lead to join our London team. This is a hybrid role. Shaping the Future of Procurement. We are investing in a brand-new, future-oriented Global Procurement Centre of Excellence that is shaping the future of DoorDash Inc. Procurement. This role is a pivotal part of that new organisation. Please note: While this is a global group role driving change and capability strategy across the entire DoorDash Inc. portfolio, you will be locally employed on a Deliveroo contract based out of our London office. In this role, you’ll ensure procurement changes are adopted, embedded, and sustained across our global organisation, ensuring our major transformation initiatives land successfully in practice, not just on paper.

Job Responsibility

  • Change Strategy & Planning: Develop and execute the overarching change management strategy, translating our transformation roadmap into structured adoption plans with clear readiness criteria
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Communications: Design a clear change narrative that aligns with broader business priorities, managing communication plans that drive understanding, buy-in, and engagement from senior leadership down
  • Training & Enablement: Define role-based training requirements and design pragmatic enablement approaches (including eLearning, workshops, and playbooks) that focus on embedding new ways of working
  • Capability Framework & Development: Design, build, and maintain a comprehensive procurement capability framework, defining clear development pathways for key roles in partnership with HR and L&D
  • Adoption Measurement: Define adoption KPIs, monitor post-implementation system and process usage, and introduce targeted interventions or sustainment mechanisms where regression occurs

Requirements

  • Proven Change Leadership: Significant experience leading change and adoption programmes within procurement or enterprise transformation, with a record of delivering measurable, sustained behavioural change
  • End-to-End Strategy Design: Proven ability to design and execute complete adoption strategies, spanning stakeholder management, communications, training design, and reinforcement
  • Capability Building: Strong experience designing and scaling functional capability frameworks, development pathways, or learning programmes that visibly uplift team maturity
  • Cross-Functional Influencing: Exceptional stakeholder management skills across Procurement, Finance, Legal, and business teams, with the capability to influence senior leaders and drive global alignment
  • Digital Transformation Familiarity: Solid understanding of embedding change within digital or Source-to-Pay (S2P) transformations (e.g., Coupa or equivalent) to ensure new platforms are utilised to their full potential

Nice to have

  • Global or Post-M&A Context: Experience driving process or system adoption across complex, multi-regional environments with diverse cultures and legacy ways of working
  • Structured Methodologies: Strong understanding of structured change frameworks (e.g., Prosci, ADKAR) adapted pragmatically to fast-paced, commercial environments
  • Modern Training Delivery: Experience delivering digital, self-service, and role-based onboarding formats for continuous learning
  • Data-Driven Insights: Ability to leverage adoption and capability metrics (e.g., system usage, compliant buying, training completion) to actively track, diagnose, and improve outcomes
  • CoE Collaboration: Experience operating within a centre-led or Centre of Excellence (CoE) model, partnering closely with process, analytics, and governance teams

What we offer

  • Competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package
  • Compensation: Up to 5% matched pension contributions
  • Equity: Some roles may be eligible for share awards
  • Food: Free Deliveroo Plus, Team lunches from the best local restaurants
  • Time away: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, One day of paid leave per year to volunteer with a registered charity
  • Wellness: Funded single cover healthcare, On-site gym (HQ), Discounted external gym membership, Access to wellbeing apps such as LesMills+, Strava, Headspace, Yogaia via GymPass, Discounted dental insurance, Life assurance
  • Work Life: Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave, Excellent kit to enable working from home, Access to free mortgage advice, Cycle to Work Scheme or Season Ticket Loans, Excellent learning and development opportunities and access to RooLearn, Regular Employee Resource Group (ERG) led social events, Summer and end-of-year parties

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