About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
The role will directly support all reconciling activities for the source-to-pay process between the sourcing system and the financial system of record. The individual would aim at building and fostering stakeholder relationships, thereby driving a culture of Continuous Improvement and Value Creation to the ongoing Procurement Reporting team in addition to managing day to day responsibilities of the team
Major Duties :
• Lead procurement enhancements and procurement projects for the Procurement technology team
• Lead the Supplier Enablement and Supplier Information process and reporting, including key performance indicators, compliance analysis and enhancements
• Conduct and lead discussions with key global stakeholders
• Initiate and drive initiatives promoting Digital Procurement and Automation
• Suggest and lead ideas to drive Purchasing Spend Insights
• Collaborate and partner with all procurement teams to initiate best practices and reduce overall time taken to generate these reports
• Carry out in-depth analysis and create dashboards which in turn aids in decision making in Category planning and contribute to other efficiencies within the procurement processes
• Take measures to simplify and standardize the reporting process
• Lead and conduct team discussions to encourage team members to execute Automation projects and Process standardization
• Suggest ideas to minimize cost and expenses within project
• Provide guidance to the team as and when appropriate
• Improve productivity and minimize quality issues
• Utilize procurement data to power advanced analytics
• Implement change and develop new processes assisting the reporting team
Knowledge :
•High-End Analytical skills
• Previous experience with Procurement tools is required (Coupa, SAP Ariba preferred, DocuSign)
• Automation Skills /Advanced Programming skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Stakeholder management skills
• Quality management
• Project management skills
• Risk management skills
Experience :
• Bachelor’s degree / Engineering degree/ MBA degree
• Experience of 6 + years in Procurement Technology Development and/or Support
• Hands on experience in Advance excel, automation tools (including Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence)
• Hands on Stakeholder management experience
• Team building
Working with Us:
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.