Procurement Manager - Systems Job at Ecolab, Saint Paul, MN

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  • Ecolab
  • Saint Paul, MN

Job Description

Ecolab has an opening for a Procurement Manager - Systems in our Procurement Operational Excellence Team located in St. Paul, MN. If you are a passionate professional that is seeking opportunity, advancement, and a rewarding career we invite you to apply. This is a great opportunity to join a highly recognized global growth company offering competitive compensation and benefits in addition to career growth.


What's in it For You:

  • Opportunity to take on some of the world's most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy, and healthy environments
  • Ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
  • Support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best
  • Prospect to advance new functionality within the Procurement Operational Excellence team with goal to strengthen and sustain the performance of Procurement by boosting the freedom to negotiate of the sourcing teams, guaranteeing full compliance of our processes, and making Procurement a preferred destination for talent.
What You Will Do:

The responsibilities of this role include leading activities for North America Procurement, as well as providing oversight and governance globally by working closely with global colleagues in the multiple regions to assure alignment to a global business systems strategy. This is an excellent role for someone looking for experience working globally, leading projects, managing direct reports, and working on business/IT systems. Knowledge and experience with procurement systems is required.


Systems
  • Leads operational activities and/or supports projects and all related business systems interactions and systems activities within the scope of the position. This includes, but is not limited to:
  • SAP
  • GEP (MyBuy)
  • Taulia
  • Internal (InsideEcolab) and External sites (Ecolab.com)
  • Others as implemented
  • Ownership for interactions between procurement related systems and other functional/business systems and Ecolab IT
  • Identify and resolve process definitions across multiple stakeholders
  • Oversees the development of procedures and controls to ensure reliable operation of systems
Project Management
  • Leads a portfolio of projects across the entire organization (some directly managed, some managed by others) focused on improving cost, quality, efficiency or service
  • Act as procurement expert on cross-functional systems projects.
  • Partner with project stakeholders to validate requirements and ensure they meet commercial and internal standards.
  • Work across organizational boundaries and influence others to achieve project goals
  • Supports Global SAP and other projects as needed
  • Identifies and sponsors process improvements or risk mitigation
Team Leadership
  • Provides direct supervision, guidance, coaching and development to the systems team members
  • Leverages technical and management skills to achieve through others and manages projects/portfolio to meet business needs
  • Develop key organizational metrics and sustainable reporting processes
  • Coach and mentor up, across, and down to develop others
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5 years of experience in master data, procurement, shared services, finance, or source to pay systems
  • 5 years' experience in a management or team leadership role
  • Experience with managing and delivering multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously
  • Proven leadership, project management, problem-solving and team development skills
  • Immigration sponsorship not available for this position
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in management, Business, Finance, or Supply
  • Prior experience in Procurement, IT, or Finance
  • Ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organization, in both written and verbal (presentation) areas
  • Demonstrated success initiating change and process improvement
  • Demonstrated process improvement skills - Green Belt trained, or commitment to complete Green Belt training while in role
  • Demonstrated history of leadership, teamwork, and project management skills
  • Experience in SAP or other ERP systems in a procurement or shared services environment
  • Strong analytical aptitude and organizational skills, high attention to detail and the ability to work independently
  • Overall business acumen and ability to deal with ambiguity
  • Strong business case analytics and ability to build "the story"
  • Strong written and verbal communication with ability to interact with the highest levels of management
  • Results-oriented, proactive, and possesses a high level of integrity
  • Excellent project management skills
  • Networking skills with the ability to build and maintain business relationships globally
  • Spreadsheet, database, financial systems and ad hoc reporting skills
  • Results oriented, proactive and self-motivated with both detail and process orientation

Benefits


Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits.


If you are viewing this posting on a site other than our Ecolab Career website, view our benefits at jobs.ecolab.com/working-here.


Covid-19 Vaccine Notice

Due to local mandates and customer requirements, applicants for certain customer-facing positions must be fully vaccinated (which in some situations requires a booster if eligible), unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab.


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