Senior Principal – Strategic Engagements, Solution & Value Advisory

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Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
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Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Information Technology • Logistics • Payments • Business Intelligence • Generative AI
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The Role
The Senior Principal will engage with enterprise clients to shape strategic initiatives, facilitate workshops, and create executive deliverables for Business Spend Management.
Summary Generated by Built In
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

Why join Coupa?

🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other. 

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The Impact of a Senior Principal, Strategic Engagements at Coupa:

Coupa is seeking a strategic and customer-focused Principal or Sr. Principal of Strategic Engagements to help shape and accelerate high-impact initiatives with our most important enterprise clients. In this highly visible role, you will engage directly with executive stakeholders to co-create transformation strategies that unlock the full value of Coupa’s industry-leading Business Spend Management (BSM) platform.

You will lead strategic workshops, develop executive deliverables, and serve as a trusted advisor across pre-sales and early value realization phases. Your work will influence digital procurement, supply chain, and finance strategies at some of the world’s most sophisticated organizations.

What You'll Do:

  • Partner with Coupa’s enterprise customers to shape strategic initiatives and co-create a Strategic Value Roadmap that aligns business objectives with Coupa’s Business Spend Management (BSM) capabilities
  • Design and facilitate executive-level workshops focused on opportunity identification, roadmap definition, and cross-functional alignment
  • Create compelling executive deliverables including maturity assessments, business cases, value frameworks, and transformation playbooks
  • Collaborate closely with sales, customer success, product, and professional services teams to ensure strategic continuity from vision through execution
  • Support key pursuits and expansion opportunities by articulating Coupa’s value in the context of customer-specific goals
  • Provide strategic guidance during early deployment stages to accelerate time-to-value and set the foundation for long-term success
  • Stay current on procurement and supply chain trends, offering thought leadership that informs customer strategies and internal best practices

What You Will Bring to Coupa:

  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise software, procurement/supply chain consulting, or value advisory roles
  • Strong knowledge of the source-to-pay lifecycle and Business Spend Management domain
  • Demonstrated success working with Fortune 500 clients and C-level stakeholders in complex, global organizations
  • Exceptional workshop facilitation skills, with the ability to lead high-impact discussions and drive executive alignment
  • Proven ability to create high-quality strategic deliverables that influence decision-making and investment
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, matrixed environments with multiple stakeholders
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred

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Top Skills

AI
Business Spend Management
Procurement
Supply Chain

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
2,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Coupa is a global technology company that helps businesses run smarter by connecting all the ways they spend money — from procurement and expenses to payments and supply chain decisions — in one intelligent platform. In simple terms, Coupa gives organizations the visibility and control they need to make better financial choices, reduce waste, and drive real impact. It’s where technology meets purpose: helping companies manage their resources more responsibly while creating a positive ripple across their people, partners, and the planet.

Why Work With Us

At Coupa, we prioritize an inclusive and empathetic workplace where every voice is valued. Our teams are proactive and accountable, ensuring we collaborate effectively to achieve our goals. The foundation of our culture rests on our people; we believe in fostering an environment that encourages innovation and curiosity.

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Our virtual-first approach is intentional. It gives you the freedom to do your best work in a space that supports focus, balance, and creativity, while staying connected to a global team of changemakers who are redefining the future of business spend

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