Manager Procurement Excellence

Copeland•St. Louis, MO

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager of Procurement Excellence will support the implementation of the Copeland Business System best practices across the enterprise with a strong focus on procurement and supply chain through lean capabilities. They will be responsible for collaborating cross-functionally and with the procurement, operations, materials, and supply chain leaders to ensure successful implementation while being a driver of culture change. The right candidate will have experience in lean management as well as experience in the procurement function, ideally within a manufacturing organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, engineering, or IT field
Minimum 7-10 years of related work experience in a continuous improvement, procurement, materials management, or IT functional analysis role
Experience in a manufacturing environment
Prior work focused on driving system and process change
Intermediate to advanced experience with Oracle EBS or Oracle Cloud but will consider other ERP experience
Experience with lean transformation and rollout across multiple businesses with a global platform
Proven knowledge with developing business analytics, preferably with tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Sigma, or Domo; SQL or other programming experience is desirable
Prior experience leading projects and tracking goals and milestones
Experience building presentations and presenting to functional business leaders
Ability to engage with all levels of the organization, including training of peers as well as executives
Approachable leader always willing to train and mentor direct reports as well as others
Ability to travel 10-25% (mostly domestic travel)

Nice To Haves

Masters’ degree in business, supply chain, finance, or engineering preferred
Prior ERP implementation experience highly desirable

Responsibilities

Lead the Process Excellence function within the larger Procurement Excellence team
Apply Copeland Business System tools and methodologies to achieve continuous improvement
Facilitate impactful global improvements, specifically focused on the procurement function in alignment with strategic objectives and expectations
Manage the Process Excellence team while mentoring, training, and guiding the group to achieve business goals
Collaborate with the Oracle IT teams to enhance the Oracle platform to align with global policies
Connect with the analytics organization to develop standardized metrics and dashboards
Document newly rolled out processes as per global policies and train key business users
Become the SME on Oracle procurement and planning processes for the center-led procurement organization; build trust with the BU procurement and materials teams
Analyze business metrics, trends, and processes to develop improvement strategies
Design new analytics and KPIs focused on process improvement and system parameter accuracy; train users to adopt new dashboards and reports
Utilize a team-oriented structured problem-solving approach to analyze current conditions, diagnose problems, and identify improvement opportunities; demonstrate success with data
Uncover and investigate complicated problems using data and various systems; make recommendations to cross-functional teams to resolve any issues