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- Job title: Procurement Excellence Process Manager
- Location: Manchester (hybrid)
- Contract Length: 2 years
- Working Hours: 37.5 hours/week
- Pay Rate: up to £45 p/h DOE
About the Role
- Ensure all procurement master data is consistently captured and updated in the ERP, to avoid savings leakage, minimize invoice queries, enable material requirement planning and timely supplier payment.
- Drive and implement consistent P2P processes implementation/improvements (Level 5work instructions) across all sites to support broader Project Initiatives.
- Ensure consistent buying channels are implemented and used.
- Increase P2P automation rates.
Key Responsibilities
- Support harmonization of P2P procedures/processes used across sites in alignment with the GPO S2P and by involving cross-functional teams.
- Document and maintain level 5 P2P processes (work instructions) in accordance with GPO guidance.
- Ensure users are adequately trained to perform processes in our systems.
- Drive and implement Continuous Improvement Work packages.
- Drive and implement Procurement Data Strategy to transition and improve all activities related to Procurement master data management (e.g. Material master, Vendor Master, Purchase Infor Record, Source List).
- Ensure continues improving processes in S2P area while maintaining process consistency globally.
- Actively participate in the implementation of systems, tools and processes related to data management, data modelling and reporting.
- Support completion of relevant Procurement and Supply Chain analytics to help drive efficiencies and support key stakeholders.
- Support with maintenance of existing reporting and monitoring tools (dashboards, databases, and KPI’s).
- Perform data validation and testing phases, before promoting solutions to Production/Live environments.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills/education
- Bachelor’s degree Business Information System, Business Administration or other relevant discipline
- Area* P2P, AP, Shared Service Environment Level* Advanced – 5-10 years
- Area SAP ERP & SAP Ariba Level Highly Experienced – 10+ years
- Understanding of upstream/downstream processes
- Procurement project management experience
- Pharma experience highly desired
- Hands on experience of harmonizing processes and documenting them.
- Experience and knowledge of both Operational Procurement and Accounts Payable functions and their needs.
- Strong technical knowledge of S2P Processes in SAP ERP & Ariba.
- Experience of managing process compliance and continuous improvements.
- Business and financial acumen, IT literate, data analytical skills, SAP (ERP, BW), Power BI.
- Technical expertise in analytical programming languages like R & Python and hands on experience on data mining/statistical tools like SAS, XLMiner and MatLab.
- Understanding or experience of current trends in “Big Data”, “Cognitive Computing” and Machine learning algorithms.
- Must have analytical skills and an understanding of system databases, data elements, and application software solutions to maximize data gathering and data analysis.
- Comfortable acquiring data independently from primary/secondary data sources and maintaining own customized set of databases/data systems/MySQL.
Company: SRG
Location:
Job Description:
- Job title: Procurement Excellence Process Manager
- Location: Manchester (hybrid)
- Contract Length: 2 years
- Working Hours: 37.5 hours/week
- Pay Rate: up to £45 p/h DOE
About the Role
- Ensure all procurement master data is consistently captured and updated in the ERP, to avoid savings leakage, minimize invoice queries, enable material requirement planning and timely supplier payment.
- Drive and implement consistent P2P processes implementation/improvements (Level 5work instructions) across all sites to support broader Project Initiatives.
- Ensure consistent buying channels are implemented and used.
- Increase P2P automation rates.
Key Responsibilities
- Support harmonization of P2P procedures/processes used across sites in alignment with the GPO S2P and by involving cross-functional teams.
- Document and maintain level 5 P2P processes (work instructions) in accordance with GPO guidance.
- Ensure users are adequately trained to perform processes in our systems.
- Drive and implement Continuous Improvement Work packages.
- Drive and implement Procurement Data Strategy to transition and improve all activities related to Procurement master data management (e.g. Material master, Vendor Master, Purchase Infor Record, Source List).
- Ensure continues improving processes in S2P area while maintaining process consistency globally.
- Actively participate in the implementation of systems, tools and processes related to data management, data modelling and reporting.
- Support completion of relevant Procurement and Supply Chain analytics to help drive efficiencies and support key stakeholders.
- Support with maintenance of existing reporting and monitoring tools (dashboards, databases, and KPI’s).
- Perform data validation and testing phases, before promoting solutions to Production/Live environments.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills/education
- Bachelor’s degree Business Information System, Business Administration or other relevant discipline
- Area* P2P, AP, Shared Service Environment Level* Advanced – 5-10 years
- Area SAP ERP & SAP Ariba Level Highly Experienced – 10+ years
- Understanding of upstream/downstream processes
- Procurement project management experience
- Pharma experience highly desired
- Hands on experience of harmonizing processes and documenting them.
- Experience and knowledge of both Operational Procurement and Accounts Payable functions and their needs.
- Strong technical knowledge of S2P Processes in SAP ERP & Ariba.
- Experience of managing process compliance and continuous improvements.
- Business and financial acumen, IT literate, data analytical skills, SAP (ERP, BW), Power BI.
- Technical expertise in analytical programming languages like R & Python and hands on experience on data mining/statistical tools like SAS, XLMiner and MatLab.
- Understanding or experience of current trends in “Big Data”, “Cognitive Computing” and Machine learning algorithms.
- Must have analytical skills and an understanding of system databases, data elements, and application software solutions to maximize data gathering and data analysis.
- Comfortable acquiring data independently from primary/secondary data sources and maintaining own customized set of databases/data systems/MySQL.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2026