Procurement Senior Team Manager

Please note, this is a fixed-term contract for 1.5 years. Looking for a role where you are leading the GBS Center Procurement function and where the teams are responsible for end-to-end procurement activities within their assigned business unit(s) with differing business priorities and cultures. If you are keen to help us expanding our Procurement services to a group of new stakeholders in EMEA region and enhancing our ways of working, then this is your place to be.

Tasks &>

As the Procurement Senior Team Manager , you are responsible for:

• Overall leading of the workstream for European markets with up to 10 direct reports, including Team Manager(s), according to our Behaviors, our Leadership principles, and the Global Recruiting Delivery Model, following internal and external compliance regulations.
• Overseeing and monitoring the teams and overall Procurement processes execution for all service-receiving countries, using our weGrow approach.
• Integrating countries and services into GBSC and ensuring/managing smooth transition, service delivery and harmonization of processes over all-sub-teams.
• Preparing the team and end-user for the Go-live of new countries and potential new processes together with its stabilization after deployment and support change management after Go-live.
• Identifying and validating local business needs and fostering identification of innovation.
• Working on projects and in the environment where we use targets to measure the service quality, ensuring process adherence and continuous improvement.

About our future employee

You should have verified knowledge in end-to-end Procurement processing, speak English min. on C1 level and have min. 8 years of professional experience in Source to Pay Shared Services environment. A minimum of 5 years Leadership experience is a must.

Additionally, we are looking for:

• Master's degree, preferably in Finance/Business Administration field or related areas.
• Excellent understanding/knowledge of end-to-end S2P processes with focus on Procurement and Sourcing.
• Distinct empathy, team spirit, accountability, intrapreneurship, and a high service orientation with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Proven problem-solving ability to manage complex and/or sensitive situations to successfully recommend, influence and implement solutions which may require engaging different levels within the organization.
• High customer service orientation and open mindset.
• Excellent analytical skills, strategic mind-set and capable of prioritizing.
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Preferably working experience with SAP, Ariba, ServiceNow, MS Office (advanced in Excel).

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