H-1B Visa Head of Procurement Jobs
Head of Procurement jobs at H-1B visa sponsoring employers require a bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, or a related field, meeting the specialty occupation standard. These senior roles involve strategic sourcing, vendor negotiation, and cross-functional leadership, making them well-suited for H-1B candidates with procurement credentials and demonstrated management experience.
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The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We're looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you're looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you've come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!
Position Summary
SolarWinds is seeking a strategic and commercially minded Global Head of Strategic Procurement to define and lead the company's enterprise procurement, travel, and spend-management strategy.
This senior leader will establish procurement as a strategic capability and enterprise partner—shaping how SolarWinds manages third-party spend, creates value, manages risk, and enables the business. The role will set the vision and operating model for Strategic Procurement, and Travel; lead leadership alignment across the organization; and build a scalable, data-driven system that converts procurement activity into measurable business outcomes.
This leader will be accountable for a true cost-savings agenda, including incremental realized savings, supplier value, commercial discipline, process effectiveness, and leadership transparency. The role will also provide strategic advisory support for AI-related oversight and decision-making and lead the procurement-related component of the GRC risk review.
Strategic Leadership Priorities
- Define the enterprise procurement strategy: Establish the multi-year roadmap, value-creation agenda, category priorities, governance model, and decision rights for procurement, travel, and third-party spend.
- Create leadership alignment: Build proactive partnerships with Finance, Legal, IT, Security, HR, and business leadership to align spend decisions with enterprise priorities, risk appetite, and financial objectives.
- Build the procurement operating system: Establish the processes, data, technology, controls, and performance-management routines required to scale procurement and P2P as an enterprise capability.
- Lead a measurable value-creation program: Set the methodology, baseline, pipeline, governance, and reporting required to deliver and sustain realized savings, cost avoidance, supplier value, and commercial improvement.
- Shape strategic negotiations and supplier strategy: Personally lead the company's most important negotiations and oversee the portfolio strategy, senior relationships, performance, and risk posture for strategic suppliers.
- Advance Travel and employee spend strategy: Establish the strategic direction for travel, expense, corporate cards, preferred suppliers, policy, adoption, and employee experience.
- Own P2P and procurement technology strategy: Serve as senior business owner for the P2P platform and related capabilities, ensuring that technology, workflows, data, and reporting support business adoption and control.
- Transform contracting and spend governance: Partner with Legal and business leaders to improve intake, prioritization, approval velocity, renewal visibility, and accountability for commercial decisions.
OneTrust GRC Governance
- Led the procurement-related OneTrust governance process from intake through ongoing monitoring. Establish clear ownership, decision rights, control requirements, and escalation paths across the procurement lifecycle.
Team leadership and organization building
- Lead a high-performing Strategic Procurement team with the structure and capabilities required to scale the function over time. Serve as the senior escalation point for complex sourcing decisions, supplier issues, cross-functional conflict, and governance exceptions.
AI advisory Leadership
Help establish governance, oversight, and decision-making frameworks for AI-related suppliers, investments, use cases, and enterprise risk. Provide procurement and commercial perspective while partnering with the appropriate technology, security, legal, privacy, and compliance stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Significant leadership experience in strategic procurement, sourcing, category management, corporate spend, or a related enterprise transformation function.
- Demonstrated record of creating material, recurring value through sourcing strategy, negotiation, supplier portfolio management, demand management, and operating-model transformation.
- Experience establishing or transforming an enterprise procurement, P2P, contract lifecycle, travel, or supplier-governance capability.
- Strong senior-leadership presence, commercial judgment, and ability to influence decisions without relying solely on formal authority.
- Experience leading complex negotiations and managing senior supplier relationships.
- Proven ability to build governance, metrics, investment cases, and leadership reporting that connect procurement activity to enterprise outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience hiring, developing, and leading high-performing teams through organizational change.
- Experience partnering across Finance, Legal, IT, Security, HR, and business functions in a complex organization.
- Familiarity with third-party risk, GRC, control frameworks, and platforms such as OneTrust.
- Practical understanding of AI governance and responsible enterprise decision-making is preferred.
- Exceptional communication, analytical, organizational, and people-leadership capabilities.
- Navan experience preferred.
Measures of Success
- Strategic Procurement is recognized as an enterprise value-creation and business-enablement function.
- Incremental realized savings and validated cost avoidance materially exceed the investment in the function.
- Procurement strategy, P2P, travel, contracting, and supplier governance operate through a common, scalable management system.
- OneTrust provides a consistent, risk-based, and auditable governance process for procurement and third-party relationships.
- Senior stakeholders have clear visibility into addressable spend, savings, supplier commitments, renewals, controls, and risk.
- Contracting and purchasing decisions move with greater speed, consistency, and accountability.
- Strategic suppliers are actively managed against value, performance, resilience, and risk objectives.
- The team is appropriately staffed, engaged, developing, and accountable for measurable outcomes.
Leadership Profile
- The ideal candidate is an enterprise strategist and builder—someone who can set direction with senior leaders, translate strategy into operating mechanisms, and deliver measurable results through people, process, technology, and commercial leadership.
- This person brings the judgment to challenge the status quo, the credibility to align diverse stakeholders, and the operating discipline to build a durable procurement capability at SolarWinds.
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All applications are treated in accordance with the SolarWinds Privacy Notice: https://www.solarwinds.com/applicant-privacy-notice
At SolarWinds, we're a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.
The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We're looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you're looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you've come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!
Position Summary
SolarWinds is seeking a strategic and commercially minded Global Head of Strategic Procurement to define and lead the company's enterprise procurement, travel, and spend-management strategy.
This senior leader will establish procurement as a strategic capability and enterprise partner—shaping how SolarWinds manages third-party spend, creates value, manages risk, and enables the business. The role will set the vision and operating model for Strategic Procurement, and Travel; lead leadership alignment across the organization; and build a scalable, data-driven system that converts procurement activity into measurable business outcomes.
This leader will be accountable for a true cost-savings agenda, including incremental realized savings, supplier value, commercial discipline, process effectiveness, and leadership transparency. The role will also provide strategic advisory support for AI-related oversight and decision-making and lead the procurement-related component of the GRC risk review.
Strategic Leadership Priorities
- Define the enterprise procurement strategy: Establish the multi-year roadmap, value-creation agenda, category priorities, governance model, and decision rights for procurement, travel, and third-party spend.
- Create leadership alignment: Build proactive partnerships with Finance, Legal, IT, Security, HR, and business leadership to align spend decisions with enterprise priorities, risk appetite, and financial objectives.
- Build the procurement operating system: Establish the processes, data, technology, controls, and performance-management routines required to scale procurement and P2P as an enterprise capability.
- Lead a measurable value-creation program: Set the methodology, baseline, pipeline, governance, and reporting required to deliver and sustain realized savings, cost avoidance, supplier value, and commercial improvement.
- Shape strategic negotiations and supplier strategy: Personally lead the company's most important negotiations and oversee the portfolio strategy, senior relationships, performance, and risk posture for strategic suppliers.
- Advance Travel and employee spend strategy: Establish the strategic direction for travel, expense, corporate cards, preferred suppliers, policy, adoption, and employee experience.
- Own P2P and procurement technology strategy: Serve as senior business owner for the P2P platform and related capabilities, ensuring that technology, workflows, data, and reporting support business adoption and control.
- Transform contracting and spend governance: Partner with Legal and business leaders to improve intake, prioritization, approval velocity, renewal visibility, and accountability for commercial decisions.
OneTrust GRC Governance
- Led the procurement-related OneTrust governance process from intake through ongoing monitoring. Establish clear ownership, decision rights, control requirements, and escalation paths across the procurement lifecycle.
Team leadership and organization building
- Lead a high-performing Strategic Procurement team with the structure and capabilities required to scale the function over time. Serve as the senior escalation point for complex sourcing decisions, supplier issues, cross-functional conflict, and governance exceptions.
AI advisory Leadership
Help establish governance, oversight, and decision-making frameworks for AI-related suppliers, investments, use cases, and enterprise risk. Provide procurement and commercial perspective while partnering with the appropriate technology, security, legal, privacy, and compliance stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Significant leadership experience in strategic procurement, sourcing, category management, corporate spend, or a related enterprise transformation function.
- Demonstrated record of creating material, recurring value through sourcing strategy, negotiation, supplier portfolio management, demand management, and operating-model transformation.
- Experience establishing or transforming an enterprise procurement, P2P, contract lifecycle, travel, or supplier-governance capability.
- Strong senior-leadership presence, commercial judgment, and ability to influence decisions without relying solely on formal authority.
- Experience leading complex negotiations and managing senior supplier relationships.
- Proven ability to build governance, metrics, investment cases, and leadership reporting that connect procurement activity to enterprise outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience hiring, developing, and leading high-performing teams through organizational change.
- Experience partnering across Finance, Legal, IT, Security, HR, and business functions in a complex organization.
- Familiarity with third-party risk, GRC, control frameworks, and platforms such as OneTrust.
- Practical understanding of AI governance and responsible enterprise decision-making is preferred.
- Exceptional communication, analytical, organizational, and people-leadership capabilities.
- Navan experience preferred.
Measures of Success
- Strategic Procurement is recognized as an enterprise value-creation and business-enablement function.
- Incremental realized savings and validated cost avoidance materially exceed the investment in the function.
- Procurement strategy, P2P, travel, contracting, and supplier governance operate through a common, scalable management system.
- OneTrust provides a consistent, risk-based, and auditable governance process for procurement and third-party relationships.
- Senior stakeholders have clear visibility into addressable spend, savings, supplier commitments, renewals, controls, and risk.
- Contracting and purchasing decisions move with greater speed, consistency, and accountability.
- Strategic suppliers are actively managed against value, performance, resilience, and risk objectives.
- The team is appropriately staffed, engaged, developing, and accountable for measurable outcomes.
Leadership Profile
- The ideal candidate is an enterprise strategist and builder—someone who can set direction with senior leaders, translate strategy into operating mechanisms, and deliver measurable results through people, process, technology, and commercial leadership.
- This person brings the judgment to challenge the status quo, the credibility to align diverse stakeholders, and the operating discipline to build a durable procurement capability at SolarWinds.
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All applications are treated in accordance with the SolarWinds Privacy Notice: https://www.solarwinds.com/applicant-privacy-notice
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Head of Procurement
Align your credentials to specialty occupation
Pull the O*NET profile for Purchasing Managers (SOC 11-3061) and confirm your degree field maps directly to the listed knowledge domains. USCIS scrutinizes procurement roles more than engineering roles, so a supply chain, business, or operations management degree strengthens your specialty occupation case.
Verify prevailing wage before accepting offers
Run the OFLC Wage Search for SOC code 11-3061 at the specific worksite city before negotiations conclude. Your certified LCA must cover that exact location, and the wage level determines your compliance floor throughout the entire H-1B period.
Target companies with multi-site LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to identify employers who have filed H-1B LCAs for procurement and operations management roles across multiple worksites. Employers with established multi-location filing patterns have HR teams that understand the separate LCA requirement for each worksite change.
Request a cap-exempt filing route where possible
Procurement leadership roles at universities, nonprofit research institutions, or government-affiliated entities are cap-exempt, bypassing the annual selection process entirely. If your target industry includes higher education procurement or public sector supply chain, prioritize those employers to avoid the cap.
Document your strategic sourcing impact quantitatively
USCIS I-129 petitions for procurement roles benefit from offer letters and support letters that describe degree-level duties explicitly: contract portfolio value managed, supplier qualification frameworks designed, and cross-functional teams led. Generic job descriptions referencing buying or vendor calls invite Requests for Evidence.
Plan your 60-day grace period around leadership transitions
If your current H-1B employer initiates layoffs or restructuring, you have a 60-day grace period to secure a new sponsoring employer. For senior procurement roles with longer hiring cycles, start employer outreach before your last day, not after, to avoid a status gap.
H-1B Visa Head of Procurement: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Head of Procurement role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, Head of Procurement roles typically qualify as a specialty occupation when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in supply chain management, business administration, operations, or a directly related field. The employer must demonstrate in the LCA and I-129 petition that the role's duties, including strategic sourcing, contract management, and supplier risk oversight, require that specific degree-level expertise rather than general business acumen.
What SOC code should my employer use on the LCA for a Head of Procurement role?
Most Head of Procurement positions are filed under SOC code 11-3061, Purchasing Managers. Your employer uses this code to determine the prevailing wage level on the LCA through the OFLC Wage Search. If your role blends significant operations or logistics leadership, the employer's immigration counsel may consider alternative SOC codes, but Purchasing Managers is the standard classification for procurement leadership.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for procurement leadership roles?
Migrate Mate shows employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history for procurement and operations management roles, searchable by location and job category. Employers with consistent procurement LCA filings have established HR and legal processes for sponsorship, which significantly reduces delays during offer and petition stages compared to employers filing for the first time.
What happens to my H-1B status if my employer restructures or eliminates the procurement function?
If your position is eliminated, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer and have an H-1B transfer petition filed. Your status is maintained during this period provided you don't take unauthorized employment. For procurement leadership roles with longer hiring cycles, beginning outreach early in any reorganization process gives you the best chance of bridging without a status gap.
Can my H-1B cover procurement work across multiple company locations?
No. Each worksite where you perform H-1B duties requires its own certified LCA, filed with DOL before work begins at that location. For Head of Procurement roles that involve periodic travel to supplier sites, distribution centers, or regional offices, your employer must assess whether those locations constitute worksites requiring separate LCA certification or qualify as short-term placement exceptions under DOL rules.