Procurement Excellence Manager

Are you ready to join a global leader in the health and hygiene industry with a mission to improve people’s lives and well-being? Essity is offering an exciting and challenging opportunity for you who want to contribute with your expertise, energy, and creativity. 

About the Role 

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Procurement Excellence Manager to lead the digital transformation journey for Purchase-to-Pay in indirect procurement at Essity. In this role, you will lead the roll-out of Ariba Guided Buying and oversee the implementation process, ensure compliance with procurement policies, and drive efficiencies across the organization. 

This is a permanent position based in Gothenburg, reporting to the Senior Procurement Excellence Manager. Occasional travel is required. 

Our culture is focused on collaboration, innovation, well-being and care, development, and commitment. We’re looking for people who embody our values, aren’t afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We’re always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we’d love to talk. 

What You Will Do  

• Lead the roll-out of Ariba Guided Buying across various regions, ensuring alignment with global procurement strategies.  

• Lead ongoing projects in Source to Pay program: Low-spend buying services, implement the “No PO No Pay” principle.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, Finance, Sales, Facility management and Marketing among others, to ensure seamless integration and adoption of the new system.  

• Develop and execute project plans, timelines, and milestones, ensuring timely delivery of project objectives and report back to various management levels. 

• Ensure successful training sessions and workshops for end-users and ambassadors, providing guidance and support throughout the implementation process.  

• Monitor and report on project progress, identifying and addressing any issues or risks that may arise.  

• Ensure high adoption of Ariba Guided Buying, secure compliance with procurement policies and procedures, promoting best practices and continuous improvement.  

• Collaborate with supplier onboarding sub-process team, and under roll-out project ensuring all necessary suppliers are enabled in Ariba and receive proper communications on Essity’s Purchase to Invoice requirements.  

• Monitor ongoing support and hyper care during the post-implementation phase, addressing any user queries or system issues.  

Who You Are  

To succeed in this role, you need excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders. You should also have strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with keen attention to detail. You are a self-leading person who takes responsibility for your tasks and are highly proactive in your daily work. You embrace and act on our core values – courage, care, collaboration, and commitment. 

You have:  

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.  

• At least 3 years of experience managing large-scale change initiatives and multi-country digital transformation projects. 

• Proven experience in project management, preferably within a procurement or supply chain environment, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams. 

• Strong knowledge of procurement processes and systems, including Ariba Guided Buying.  

• Good communicator on all levels across organization and businesses.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and project management tools.  

• Knowledge on invoice processing and financial reporting is an advantage.  

• Knowledge of indirect procurement and purchase-to-pay processes is a plus. 

• Familiarity with change management principles and practices.  

• Willingness and ability to travel occasionally. 

What We Can Offer You 

Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Working at Essity means a chance to improve well-being for people and opportunities to drive positive change for the society and the environment. As an employee at Essity, you will belong to an organization where you feel valued and supported to grow and challenged to generate business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere. Innovate for Good | Excel Together | Be You with Us 

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