• World-leading industrial company, role-based in Bilbao|Develp and lead key procurement process improvements worlwide

World-leading industrial company with facilities in Bilbao surroundings

Reporting to VP Procurement & Supply Chain, as Process Owner for Procure to Pay with a global scope, you will have the opportunity to develop and lead key process improvements in cooperation with all cross functional stakeholders. The role focuses on designing and implementing the optimal procurement processes, applications and the digital roadmap end to end. The role will continuously improve Procurement processes, tools and systems and deploy best practices and S2P playbook standards driving excellence within the Procurement function. This excellence role is a key enabler for delivering the procurement strategy.

The main functions for the role will be:

Business alignment on Procurement Process & Systems Ownership

Act as Process Owner of the Procurement function in relation to the Source to Pay (S2P) process working with various stakeholders:

• OM to ensure a smooth S2P process end to end, defining key projects in procurement to increase automation and efficiency to a great extent


• IS to leverage process expertise on digital tools related to SAP and data mining, vendor master data management resulting in efficient reporting


• Finance to and automate transactional procurement processes and increase efficiency in BST


• Operations to increase use of catalogue management


• Other business partners to deploy the necessary tools to drive an efficient Source to contract and contract to Pay process

Design and maintain the global Procurement data and tools to enable increased procurement efficiency and effectiveness

• Launch improvement projects and effective reporting by implementing best practices in close collaboration with the procurement category and subregional teams


• Own the digital agenda and identify needs to install better IS tools to automate procurement processes overall


• Drive adoption of systems to increase efficiency and effectiveness


• Perform master data analytics and data cleansing, standardise category taxonomy where needed in cooperation with the category team


• Perform effective spend analytics and reporting for all global and regional categories

Procurement Governance and Compliance

Maintain Procurement Policy and procedures

• Formally document processes, approval rights and policies to govern Procurement decisions


• Manage Contract Life Cycle for suppliers in close cooperation with Legal and manage access rights


• Follow up on governance to ensure all stakeholders comply and install appropriate reporting


• Ensure GR&C activities are performed compliant to the defined standards and processes


• Organize audits, self-assessments etc. to drive compliance within function


• Act as a first point of contact

Project Management

Coordinate and manage Excellence projects to contribute to the realization of the Procurement targets.

• Prepare the agreed upon project work and follow up on the status of the projects


• Maintain regular and efficient communication with the members of the project team


• make clear agreements and arrangements with the team members (on the project work processes, reporting etc.)


• Take ownership to deliver results of the project

Oportunidades de carrera y desarrollo profesional.

• MSc in Engineering, Economics or similar


• Minimum 10 years experience in Procurement, at least 3 of them as Procurement Process Owner in a large company


• Proficiency in using ERP, Procurement specific softwares (ARIBA, etc) and MS Office


• High English level is mandatory (daily use, global environment)


• Strong organizational, analytical, pragmatic, influencing and decision making skills


• Availability to work in a daily basis in Bilbao area