Manager Procurement Excellence

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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

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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)

Preferred education, experiences & skills

+ Masters' degree in business, supply chain, finance, or engineering…