Procurement Transformation Manager

11 hours ago

Wilmslow, Cheshire East, United Kingdom Waters Full time
Job Summary

The Strategy & Operational Excellence team at Waters Corporation is seeking a highly skilled Sr Mgr, Direct Procurement Transformation to drive improvements to processes and systems related to direct procurement, supplier management, contract management, and spend analytics across our manufacturing sites and global procurement function.

This role requires collaboration with colleagues across our global network, drawing on domain knowledge and cross-functional team expertise to design, test, deploy, and drive adoption of new policies, processes, metrics, and systems.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop a deep understanding of current policies, processes, metrics, and systems across functions and sites
  • Identify best practices to be adopted into current policies, processes, metrics, and systems
  • Design and validate proposed changes to improve procurement efficiency and effectiveness
  • Deploy new processes, functionality, and analytics, supported by communication, training, and documentation
  • Measure adoption and adherence, execute interventions to drive increased adoption and adherence where necessary
  • Identify opportunities to automate or streamline processes
  • Maintain a prioritized roadmap of changes to be introduced, working with business leaders and transformation leads to ensure alignment
  • Collaborate with stakeholders outside of Global Operations to ensure alignment with the overall enterprise
Requirements
  • 5+ years of dynamic experience in consulting and/or manufacturing operations, including working knowledge of direct procurement and material management
  • Process discovery, design, modeling, and implementation experience
  • Knowledge of SAP capabilities, including SAP ECC and S/4 HANA
  • Experience designing and deploying SAP-based processes and functionality
  • Knowledge of Celonis Process Mining and Symbio BPM solutions a plus
  • Strong project management skills and experience crafting and executing global projects
  • Strong influencing skills and ability to work across organizational boundaries driving change and harmonization
  • Results-oriented mindset with a consistent track record of solving problems and delivering results ahead of schedule
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • ASCM / APICS certifications a plus
  • BS Degree in an Engineering, Science, or Supply Chain discipline. Master's Degree preferred
About Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation is the world's leading specialty measurement company, pioneering chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

At Waters, we strive to be better, learn, and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together, delivering benefits as one to provide the insights needed today to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. We actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers, and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

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