Description:
The Manager of Procurement Excellence 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. The right candidate will have experience in lean management as well as experience in the procurement function, ideally within a manufacturing organization.
As The Manager Of Procurement Excellence, You Will
- 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
Required Education, Experiences & Skills
- 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)