Procurement Business Process Manager

Area of responsibility:

• As part of the Centre of Excellence, you will have a strong end-to-end understanding of the entire value chain and a close cooperation with the business
• You will be part of an international environment, collaborating in a virtual team of Procurement specialists in other Business Units
• Your responsibility will be to own, offer direction, improve and support all business processes relating to Source to Pay
• Own and drive the implementation of the Danish Crown standard model for Source to Pay processes
• Develop and drive the 3yr plan for Source to Pay

Specific tasks:

• On a day-to-day basis, you will drive improvement initiatives in close cooperation with the Procurement department on a strategic and operational level
• Current project examples are the sourcing and implementation of a Contract Management and E-Procurement Solution
• Together with the business and especially the Local Process Experts in Procurement, you identify gaps in the system, process, and user knowledge and apply solutions.
• You will create user guides and training manuals for system enhancements and review functional documentation - often in close collaboration with super users and IT
• You are responsible for providing Procurement training to super users and end-users when the needs arise
• You will also collaborate with the IT team to provide general incident support to the business
• Maintain specific Source to Pay process documentation, ensure distribution to business – including updating for future process/system testing
• Work with all operational (Materials Management, Customer Services, Shared Services, Business Development, Warehouse Management, Marketing, Finance) to improve, standardise, document transactional processes
• Lead on All Solution developments in Source to Pay, co-ordinate with IT and ensure full end-to-end testing and staff training matrix
• Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the current Business Process and Systems as well as drive improvement in Procurement
• Own and improve Process documentation, process controls, reports, training, and testing in accordance to the location and business area
• Ensure end to end consistency of the procurement processes. Cooperate with BPM's/BPE’s & SME’s across Procurement and Finance to drive overall process quality improvements
• Provides detailed functional and technical expertise on the Source to Pay processes through an in-depth understanding of the best practice and the latest developments in solutions and approach

Educational background:

• University diploma (Business / Finance / Logistics)

• Fluent English in spoken and written

Relevant experience:

• The ideal candidate is service-minded, self-driven and genuinely interested in developing professionally. Therefore, you are sufficiently motivated to work on your own initiative in a dynamic team with a high tempo and great tasks, where you need to meet expectations
• You have a broad experience within SAP MM and specifically Procurement. You have worked with a cloud-based Procurement tool. Also, knowledge within other SAP modules and Project Management experience would be an advantage
• You have great interpersonal skills and it is of great importance that you can work proactively with the business on tasks and challenges
• Preferably you have a proven business understanding and a good ability to reengineer, define processes and implement these in a large organisation
• Extensive experience in a business-facing role gathering business requirements, as-is and to-be process mapping, and leading business workshops on a large scale and wide-spread deployment programmes
• Excellent understanding and proven experience working with business processes and re-engineering across SAP SD/MM modules and cloud-based procurement tools within a mature solution environment
• Strong knowledge and understanding of how FICO processes integrate with SD/MM processes
• Purchase To Pay / Accounts Payable Experience, in particular with (AP) Accounts Payable 3-way matching and workflow solutions
• Expert knowledge of E-Procurement / p2p systems (Coupa, Ariba, SAP)
• Experience with SAP Material Management (SAP MM) modules

We offer:

• Private medical care together with dental care
• Flexible working hours
• Life insurance
• MyBenefit and multisport program
• 2 additional holiday days benefits
• Events, integrations for employees