Procurement Excellence Specialist

Role Description

The Procurement Excellence Specialist plays a key role in strengthening procurement performance, ensuring end-to-end process consistency, data quality, tool adoption and operational discipline across the organization. The role supports both strategic procurement activities and operational P2P execution, acting as an internal point of reference for continuous improvement, standardization and compliance.

• Design and continuously improve company-wide procurement processes
  , policies, and procedures, ensuring global consistency and compliance.
• Ensure alignment and harmonization of procurement workflows across all functions and business units, eliminating local deviations unless formally approved.
• Manage and support the deployment, adoption and optimization of procurement tools (e-sourcing, contract management, analytics platforms, etc.).
• Drive master data governance, ensuring structure, accuracy and harmonization of procurement-relevant data.
• Develop and maintain KPI dashboards, analytical reports and performance insights to support decision-making for Category Managers to achieve visibility on spend trends, supplier performance and cost-optimization opportunities.
• Help Category Managers to identify inefficiencies, propose improvements, and standardize best practices across categories.
• Coordinate and monitor compliance with procurement policies, templates, guidelines and global standards.
• Conduct systematic reviews of data and documents to verify inconsistencies, misalignments or procedural gaps across procurement and P2P processes.
• Support knowledge sharing and training activities on procurement processes and tools.
• Act as Project Management Office (PMO) for procurement-related initiatives, ensuring planning, tracking, reporting and governance.

Reporting to: Head of Procurement

Internal role: Process owner for Procurement Operational Excellence

• Establish and monitor procurement KPIs, ensuring consistency and visibility of performance across categories and stakeholders.
• Identify recurring issues, process gaps or data incongruities and propose corrective actions to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Act as a contact point for basic process clarifications with requestors or suppliers.
• Maintain a service-oriented mindset, balancing responsiveness with adherence to compliance standards.
• Provide input for dashboards and reports related to procurement operational activities.
• Contribute to team effectiveness through collaboration, communication and task follow-up.

• Excellent attention to detail and strong process accuracy.
• Effective communication skills, especially for managing transactional follow-up.
• Highly organized and structured, able to prioritize tasks in a high-volume context.
• Previous experience in procurement operations, finance or shared service center is a plus.
• Master’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Management Engineering or similar.
• Fluent in English; knowledge of the local language or additional languages is appreciated.
• Proficient in MS Office tools (Excel, Outlook, basic PowerPoint).
• Working knowledge of ERP systems (SAP, Oracle or similar).