Operational Leadership and Service Delivery
Lead Price Management, Invoice Management, and Coupa/Ariba Helpdesk operations. Establish operating rhythms for intake, prioritization, workload, backlog, aging, risk, and escalation. Ensure service commitments, process accuracy, control requirements, and stakeholder expectations are consistently managed. Serve as the escalation point for complex or cross-capability issues.
People Leadership and Capability Development
Lead, coach, and develop capability leads, analysts, and contractors. Set clear priorities and performance expectations; conduct regular one-on-ones, development planning, and performance discussions. Build documented standard work, cross-training, and validated primary and backup coverage for critical processes. Promote accountability, collaboration, problem solving, and continuous learning.
Continuous Improvement, Automation, and Performance Governance
Define and maintain operational KPIs and scorecards for service, quality, backlog, cycle time, root cause, adoption, and manual effort. Lead process simplification, standardization, reporting improvements, and automation opportunities. Convert recurring tickets, pricing defects, and invoice issues into preventive process, data, training, or system improvements, with owners and benefit tracking.
Controls, Risk, and Stakeholder Partnership
Maintain governance and audit-ready evidence for operational decisions, approvals, and process controls. Partner with Category Management, Procurement Business Operations, Accounts Payable, Finance, Manufacturing, suppliers, Master Data, Digital/IT, and external service partners to resolve dependencies and improve end-to-end outcomes. Communicate performance, risks, decisions, and recovery plans to Procurement Operations leadership.