Sr Mgr, Direct Procurement Transformation - Waters Corporation

Overview

The Strategy & Operational Excellence team is on a mission to improve both our customer and employee experience by transforming how we plan, buy, make, and distribute products in Waters Global Operations. Our four pillars of focus include: Strategy, Processes and Systems, Continuous Improvement, and Insights.

As a Sr Mgr, Direct Procurement Transformation, you will be responsible for driving improvements to processes and systems related to direct procurement, supplier management, contract management, and spend analytics across our manufacturing sites and global procurement function. This will require you to collaborate with, and influence colleagues across our global network, drawing on both your own domain knowledge, as well as the cross-functional team you will be work with, to design, test, deploy, and drive adoption of new policies, processes, metrics, and systems.

Responsibilities

• Work with leaders and teams across functions and sites to develop a good understanding of current policies, processes, metrics, and systems
• Identify best practices to be adopted into current policies, processes, metrics and systems
• Design and validate proposed changes
• Deploy new processes, functionality and analytics, supported with appropriate communication, training, and documentation
• Measure adoption and adherence, execute interventions to drive increased adoption and adherence where necessary
• Identify opportunities to automate or streamline processes
• Maintain a prioritized roadmap of changes to be introduced, working with both business leaders on other transformation leads to reach alignment
• Collaborate with stakeholders outside of Global Operations to ensure alignment with the overall enterprise, e.g., with respect to master data governance, and enterprise IT systems

Qualifications

• 5+ years dynamic experience in consulting and/or manufacturing operations, including working knowledge of one or more specific areas (e.g., direct procurement, material management)
• Process discovery, design, modelling, and implementation experience
• Knowledge of SAP capabilities (e.g., SAP ECC, S/4 HANA)
• Experience designing and deploying SAP-based processes and functionality
• Knowledge of Celonis Process Mining, Symbio BPM solutions or equivalents a plus
• Knowledge of PowerBI a plus
• Experience working in Agile teams based on SCRUM methodology a plus
• Strong project management skills, experience crafting and executing global projects
• Strong influencing skills, proven ability to work across organizational boundaries driving change and harmonization across a global organization
• Results oriented mindset, operates with high sense of urgency. Consistent track record of solving problems, breaking down barriers and delivering results ahead of schedule

• Strong written and verbal communication

• ASCM / APICS certifications a plus
• BS Degree in an Engineering, Science or Supply Chain discipline. Master’s Degree preferred                                                                                                                                                #LI-Hybrid

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status. 

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