We are currently seeking for a self-driven Procurement Operations Team Leader with a passion for procurement to join our team. Will perform sanity checks on requests, will assure the procurement policies are followed and will investigate blocked invoices. Will also serve as a point of contact for a given category or country and will provide suggestions on catalog creation. Act as a Functional Team Leader supporting the Procurement Operations Manager by training new analysts, supporting a group of analysts on escalations and balancing their workload when needed to ensure no business disruptions. Finally, will participate also as Key User on the Coupa deployment for a specific country.

What will you do:

• Manage independently a team of Procurement Operations Analysts (directly or indirectly, aiming at continuous improvement of its efficiency and quality of financial services provided)
• Participate on recruitment activities for new talent.
• Train new analysts and guide them through the P2P processes and tools.
• Support a group of analysts as a first point of escalation to solve doubts or problems for invoice dispute resolution.
• Proactively balance workload for their scope of analysts, identifying opportunities and discussing them with the Procurement Operations Manager for further action.
• Review KPIs for their scope of analysts and provide performance feedback along with the Procurement Operations Manager.
• Participate actively on the performance management revisions for their scope of analysts.
• Independently solves standard and non-standards problems/ issues appearing in everyday management work
• Facilitate the eProc Systems and Tools for Purchase Order Management utilizing diverse company software.
• Adhere to, educate and enforce eProc tool usage guidelines, and all corporate Purchasing policies with User groups.
• Propose catalog creation when opportunities arise.
• Point of contact for a given plant, site or country to clarify/solve purchase-to-pay process issues.
• Communication of Best Practices to the user groups.
• Provide input to supplier business reviews when prompted to ensure full end to end supplier performance is included in overall business review.
• Act as subject matter expert for the P2P process for a given country or commodity.
• Support the P2P transformation as needed as Key User by testing and training.

What will help you to be successful in this role:

• Fluency in English and French (verbal and written)
• Associate's or bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business or Engineering
• 5-year experience on Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Customer Service or Finance (SSO environment preferred)
• Min 2-year experience in team management
• Experience in working across silos and in matrix organization
• Achieve sustainable results (being results-oriented, being perseverant)
• Showing flexibility and high adaptability to changing environment
• Process oriented, with disciplined process management skills
• Self-initiative and aptitude for process improvement.
• Strong training facilitation and coaching skills for the user group.
• Proven experience working under pressure.
• Proficiency on excel and power point use.
• Preferred experience with e-Procurement tools (SRM, COUPA, ARIBA, SAP, ORACLE).

What do we offer?

• Exciting job in an international company, with opportunities to lead and contribute to different projects & actions (e.g. CSR, charity, Employer Branding, Well-Being)
• Work in a diverse and supportive team of professionals
• Buddy, mentor & induction training - that will help you to smoothly find yourself in our company
• Special training tailored to your needs and career goals
• Wide choice of benefits (sports card, lunch vouchers, medical care, life & group insurance, holidays & languages subsidiary)
• No formal dress code - we welcome people as they are and perceive diversity as value for the company
• Opportunity to develop based on clear career paths, to grow through experience and exposure
• Possibility to use foreign languages and to collaborate with cross-region teams
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