IT Procurement Lead Business System Analyst

Towson, MD, United States

Remote

Full time

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Lead Systems Analyst - Remote

Towson, MD, USA

Come make the world and accelerate your success.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:

As a Lead Systems Analyst, you’ll be part of our IT – Supply Chain team working as a remote employee. You’ll get to:

• Serve as the functional/technical lead for the Procurement technology product area, partnering with Procurement Business Process Owners to define vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes (cycle time, compliance, touchless processing, supplier enablement) .

• Own and maintain the product backlog (features/user stories), including prioritization, refinement, and alignment to business value and capacity.

• Lead discovery and solution shaping for S2C and P2P initiatives; drive decisions across process standardization vs. local variation.

• Drive AI and automation initiatives across S2C and P2P to improve user experience, increase compliance, reduce cycle times, and enable touchless processing (e.g., workflow automation, intelligent intake, guided buying, PO/PR/invoice automation, and spend/supplier insights).

• Act as the project functional/technical lead for implementations, rollouts, and major enhancements (global/regional), coordinating requirements, design, testing, cutover, and adoption.

• Lead cross-functional workshops to define future-state processes and confirm impacts across Procurement, Finance/AP, and upstream/downstream systems.

• Manage functional risks, dependencies, and scope trade-offs; ensure delivery quality and readiness.

• Own end-to-end requirements: business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, control requirements, and acceptance criteria.

• Design and standardize processes across:

• S2C : sourcing events, supplier onboarding/qualification, supplier lifecycle management, contract authoring/approvals, contract repository, and compliance workflows.

• P2P : catalogs/guided buying, requisitioning, approvals, PO lifecycle, receiving, invoicing, matching, exceptions, and supplier enablement.

• Ensure solutions support auditability and key controls (e.g., approval traceability, delegation, tolerance rules, segregation of duties, retention).

• Provide functional oversight for configuration of Ariba (or similar) modules and related workflows, catalogs, and supplier enablement settings.

• Lead functional definition for integrations between the S2P suite and multiple ERPs (SAP, Infor, QAD, JDE), including:
  Supplier/master data synchronization and POs, receipts, invoices, status updates and exceptions

• Partner with integration teams (iPaaS/ESB/API) and data/BI teams to validate mappings, reconciliation, and reporting needs (spend, compliance, operational KPIs).

Typical Systems & Modules in Scope

• S2C : sourcing, supplier lifecycle/onboarding, contract lifecycle management (CLM), approvals, compliance

• P2P : catalogs/guided buying, requisitions, approvals, PO management, receiving, invoicing/e-invoicing, matching, exceptions

• ERP integration : SAP, Infor, QAD, JDE (multi-ERP operating model)

• Reporting : spend analytics, compliance, cycle time, exception, aging

• Integration protocols : APIs, EDI, cXML, ETL processes

The Person:

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