Procurement Systems Manager

About the role

The Procurement Systems Manager will support the implementation of the Copeland Business System best practices across the enterprise with a strong focus on procurement and supply chain through lean capabilities. They will be responsible for collaborating cross-functionally and with the procurement, operations, materials, and supply chain leaders to ensure successful implementation while being a driver of culture change.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Process Excellence function within the larger Procurement Excellence team
• Apply Copeland Business System tools and methodologies to achieve continuous improvement
• Facilitate impactful global improvements, specifically focused on the procurement function in alignment with strategic objectives and expectations
• Manage the Process Excellence team while mentoring, training, and guiding the group to achieve business goals
• Collaborate with the Oracle IT teams to enhance the Oracle platform to align with global policies
• Connect with the analytics organization to develop standardized metrics and dashboards
• Document newly rolled out processes as per global policies and train key business users
• Become the SME on Oracle procurement and planning processes for the center-led procurement organization; build trust with the BU procurement and materials teams
• Analyze business metrics, trends, and processes to develop improvement strategies
• Design new analytics and KPIs focused on process improvement and system parameter accuracy; train users to adopt new dashboards and reports
• Utilize a team-oriented structured problem-solving approach to analyze current conditions, diagnose problems, and identify improvement opportunities; demonstrate success with data
• Uncover and investigate complicated problems using data and various systems; make recommendations to cross-functional teams to resolve any issues

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, engineering, or IT field
• Minimum 7-10 years of related work experience in a continuous improvement, procurement, materials management, or IT functional analysis role
• Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Prior work focused on driving system and process change
• Intermediate to advanced experience with Oracle EBS or Oracle Cloud but will consider other ERP experience
• Experience with lean transformation and rollout across multiple businesses with a global platform
• Proven knowledge with developing business analytics, preferably with tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Sigma, or Domo; SQL or other programming experience is desirable
• Prior experience leading projects and tracking goals and milestones
• Experience building presentations and presenting to functional business leaders
• Ability to engage with all levels of the organization, including training of peers as well as executives
• Approachable leader always willing to train and mentor direct reports as well as others
• Ability to travel 10-25% (mostly domestic travel)

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, or engineering preferred
• Prior ERP implementation experience highly desirable

Skills

• Oracle EBS or Oracle Cloud (intermediate to advanced)
• Lean transformation and rollout experience
• Business analytics development (Power BI, Tableau, Sigma, Domo)
• SQL or other programming
• Project leadership and milestone tracking
• Presentation and communication to business leaders
• Mentoring and training ability

Benefits

• Medical insurance plans
• Dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) plans
• Flexible time off plans including paid parental leave, vacation and holiday leave

Schedule

Hybrid eligible with requirement to be in office at least three days per week.