Senior Lead - Ordering

Key Skills: Procurement Operations, Source-to-Pay (S2P), PR-to-PO Operations, Procurement Transformation, Global Team Leadership, Sourcing Methodologies, Process Governance, Stakeholder Management, Escalation Management, Root-Cause Analysis, Automation, Digital Adoption, Process Improvement, Direct and Indirect Procurement

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end PR-to-PO operational delivery, including service performance, issue resolution, escalation management and stakeholder communications.
• Lead and develop a global procurement operations team, establishing clear objectives, accountability, capability development and succession planning.
• Drive procurement transformation through structured improvement cycles, root-cause analysis, automation pilots, digital adoption and measurable value assessments.
• Establish and maintain operating controls, service-level governance, knowledge management, process standards and exception handling to support consistent and auditable execution.
• Partner with procurement enablement, category management, regional teams, country partners, business stakeholders and suppliers to remove process friction and improve the purchasing experience.

Skills Required:

• 10-17 years of professional experience, including substantial leadership responsibility in procurement operations, Source-to-Pay or transformation.
• Deep procurement experience spanning procurement operations, sourcing methodologies and Source-to-Pay processes.
• Proven leadership experience managing large, complex, global or virtual teams in a procurement environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of procurement transformation programmes with measurable improvements in efficiency, service quality, process control or cost-to-serve.
• Experience operating as an S2P Global Process Owner or in an equivalent global process governance and transformation role.

Good to Have:

• Experience in direct procurement and indirect procurement environments.

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in science, engineering, business management or a related discipline.