Lead, Supply Chain Digital Enablement

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