What success looks like in this role:
Your Role
Reporting to the Director of Procurement Transformation, this pivotal role will manage and continuously improve the procurement technology landscape from a business perspective to enable our Procurement strategic vision. You will drive and execute the Global Procurement digital strategy to drive innovation, reduce costs, enhance process efficiency, foster supplier collaboration, mitigate risks and optimize strategic sourcing to deliver improved procurement ROI, spend under management, savings rate, spend sourced and spend compliance.
The ideal candidate will have a working knowledge across the intake-to-pay cycle including category strategy, sourcing methodology, supplier risk management, supplier contract management and buying channels and be at the forefront of digital transformation, leveraging technology to streamline procurement processes, improve efficiency, create frictionless user-journeys and drive cost savings across the organization.
You Will Be Responsible For:
- Digital procurement technology: Drive, execute and enhance the procurement technology landscape across intake-to-requisition including category strategy, sourcing methodology, supplier risk management, supplier contract management and buying channels
- Strategic improvements: Identify and implement strategic improvements within the procurement technology landscape to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and improve supplier relationships. This includes staying abreast of the latest digital procurement trends and technologies. Identify, assess and configure process enhancements across the procurement tech-stack aligned to, or to drive policy improvements to meet and exceed KPI targets
- Collaboration and leadership: Work closely with other teams within Procurement, IT, Finance and other key stakeholders to ensure solutions are fully integrated and aligned with Unisys overall business objectives.
- Alignment to Procurement strategy: Build and maintain end-to-end workflows aligned to Category and Buying Channel strategies. Ensure platform configuration alignment to business process, Global Procurement policy and operating model designs
- System configuration: Support the non-technical configuration of the solutions within the procurement tech stack throughout implementation. Post-implementation, take ownership of all non-technical solution configurations, prioritize
- Scaling the strategy: Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of digital procurement tools and practices.
- Data analysis and reporting: Utilize data analytics to monitor procurement activities and performance. Generate insights and reports to inform decision-making and demonstrate the value added by procurement technologies. Diagnose problems and develop effective solutions
- Innovation and continuous improvement: Foster a culture of innovation within the procurement team. Continuously seek opportunities to improve processes through automation, AI, and leveraging the enhancements delivered by our selected solutions.
- Change management: Lead change management initiatives related to digital procurement to ensure smooth transitions and high levels of adoption within the organization
- Compliance and risk management: Ensure all procurement technology solutions comply with regulatory requirements and company policies. Identify and mitigate risks associated with digital procurement.
- Governance: Ensure adequate documentation of platform reporting, analytics and dashboard configurations is maintained
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You will be successful in this role if you have:
- 5 + years of experience in Procurement with a minimum of 3 years of experience with Digital Procurement/Procurement Technology Implementation
- Experience of procurement processes and practices across Category Management, Sourcing Strategy, Major Deal Governance, Procurement Operations, Contract Lifecycle Management, Requisition to Pay and Supplier Risk, particularly for indirect spend
- Experience in a Procurement process or technology management role
- Experience with leading projects, especially transformation and change management activities
- Digital mindset and a dedication to user experience
- Strong communication and influencing skills, ability to network internally and externally
- Experience with implementing technologies supporting procurement processes such as Sourcing, CLM and Process Orchestration/Workflow capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to deliver clear, well-structured presentations: Senior Executive Level presence is required.
- Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Computer Science/IT or related areas are desirable, or equivalent demonstrable professional experience
Unisys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to age, blood type, caste, citizenship, color, disability, family medical history, family status, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, parental status, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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