Senior Role - Process Improvement - Source to Pay

Functional End to End Process Skills

- Obtain an understanding of the process areas in scope (sourcing, contract management, supplier management, transactional procurement, vendor master and Accounts Payable) in order to identify process and policy improvement opportunities and champion a culture of continuous improvement.

- Partner with the Global Process Steward to develop and prioritize multi-year strategic plans that provide the roadmap for value improvement for a service area within of business services

- Collaborate with IT to prioritize technology needs within their process area.

- Support the Global Process with the logistics and preparation for Global Process Committee meetings; tracks and maintains log of follow-up action items from the Committee

- Review performance metrics associated with their process area for the purpose of cross-regional internal benchmarking, identification of potential CI opportunities, and for identification of future changes to introduce new or different metrics to the scorecard

- Engage in external research, networking, and benchmarking activities to gain/maintain a perspective on industry trends and develop capabilities

Continuous Improvement: Core skills

- ANALYZE PROBLEMS: Quantify project findings and synthesize results.

- MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS: Document and present project conclusions to businesses, functions and senior management.

- IMPLEMENT: Facilitate the successful implementation of End to End process recommendations

- Make continuous improvement recommendations and present project conclusions to businesses, functions and management by leveraging leading practices, monitoring performance metrics, and benchmarking performance across end-to-end business processes

- Demonstrate proficiency effectively presenting complex topics in an easy-to-understand manner and facilitating meetings with Directors, Vice Presidents, and Business owners.

- Analyze root cause problems and process mapping, assessing metrics, quantifying project findings, benchmarking performance, and synthesizing results. Recommend and implement methods to sustain improvements through metric and control monitoring

- Facilitate issue escalations and resolution via coordinating solution development across the project team, steering committee, and key business stakeholders.

- Quality/Audit compliance

- Responsible for regional SOX Program Coordination, reporting to Global and Corporate SOX 404 leadership for alignment to global standards.

- Responsible for performance of various audit procedures to assess the following:

- Efficiency/effectiveness of business processes

- Compliance with Company policies and procedures and external rules and regulations