Planning and Engagement Content lead

Experience-8years

Business Entity-Finance

Role Synopsis-

•The Planning and Engagement Content lead plays a critical role in the transformation of procurement channels and related content in the area of Guided Buying.

•Deploy our customer's procurement buying methodology to enable the simplest channels for their category strategies through their Digital Operating System through Ariba Spend Management and SAP S4 Hana implementations. This content includes buying channels, landing pages, Guided Buying, contract compliance, UNSPSC and related categorization, marketplaces, purchase requisition handling and workflow guidance. Engagement will be with Category, Sourcing, Operations and deployment teams as well as supporting managed service providers.

•Support their Procurement Category Directors and Category Owners through content options to help them understand how the available channels can simplify the buying experience for their categories; help them successfully develop their content approach and longer-term development plans.

•Build a strong technical knowledge on SAP Ariba and S4 to be able to provide the right guidance and inspiration to the Category teams in content development.

Manage content and buying channel KPIs, reporting on progress as well as identifying risks to delivery and opportunities for improvement

Key Accountabilities

•Understands process, systems, marketplaces, categories and how to enable categories.

•Delivers content for Ariba Spend Management and SAP S4

•Works collectively with Planning & Engagement tower and category teams to increase capability and understanding on available buying channels and help them deliver a simple buying solution for their category.

•Is the expert for content and buying channels for Procurement, monitors leading edge thinking and developments in the area of simplified buying channels and SAP Guided Buying functionality.

•Performs analysis of supplier lists, contracts lists and spend data while understanding user pain points to recommend the simplest buying channel to the category teams.

•Coaches and advises category teams on best ways to set up suppliers and guided buying to drive simplified procurement transactions.

•Works closely with the Digital Operating System Program to meet program delivery milestones

•Works to create and sustain support for content within Procurement

•BAU analytics to review benefits realization

Must to have requirements-

•Bachelor Degree educated or equivalent in related area.

•6 - 8 years experience in business services, outsourcing or similar, in-depth knowledge of procurement processes including key roles, departments, and common process performance indicators

•Considerable Business/Process Analysis experience, preferably with strong user interaction

•Strong knowledge of tools and systems associated with data gathering, compilation and analysis.

•Experience in process management.

•Have experience in participation in process re-design initiatives.

•Relevant, previous experience with continuous improvement tools and methodologies.

•Knowledge of project and change management methodologies and financial/operational control practices.

•Ability to communicate with varying levels within the organization, internal and external to GBS regarding complex operational issues.

•Good interpersonal and communication skills required given ambiguous, diverse and complex nature of operating landscape.

•Influence others to achieve desired self/team goals and objectives. Innovative in issue resolution.

•Good planning, organizing, problem-solving and analytical skills.

•Prepares and presents reports on work undertaken and proposals on the direction recommended to achieve short-term objective.

•Skilled in Microsoft suite of applications (Excel; PowerPoint).

•Personal time management skills and ability to meet individual and team deadlines.

•Ability to think outside-the-box.