Procurement Subject Matter Expert – SME
Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Lakewood • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $87,600 - $109,500 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
ERP
About the role
- Represent the Global Supply Chain in design sessions related to core procurement processes and dependencies/hand offs with other business processes such as R2R, MDM etc.
- Provide expert knowledge of existing processes and known pain points to inform and help determine solution design
- Collaborate with project team members and system integrators to define and validate future-state processes aligned with global standards
- Ensure functional and technical system designs meet Global Supply Chain business needs, compliance requirements, and reporting standards
- Participate in testing activities such as user acceptance testing (UAT), data validation, and cutover planning to ensure successful deployment
- Support change management efforts by contributing to training, communication, and user readiness strategies
- Act as a liaison between Global Supply Chain and the ERP project teams to troubleshoot issues, escalate risks, and support resolution activities
- Deliver regular project updates to ensure milestones are communicated and achieved
- Ensure post-go-live process adoption, system utilization, and continuous improvement across business units
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in procurement, ideally across both Direct and Indirect
- Demonstrated experience and usage of SAP core functionality and transactions
- Demonstrated experience in usage of P2P technologies such as contract management, RFX applications, Ariba, Coupa, either SAP or industry-leading P2P solutions
- Demonstrated experience working with, influencing and/or leading global teams
- Experience working cross-functionally within project teams or business process improvement initiatives
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for effective collaboration across all organizational levels
- Demonstrated experience in business transformation, systems implementation, or process optimization
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic, project-driven environment with competing priorities
- Willingness to commit a full allocation of time for a minimum of 2 years to support the transformation project over its lifecycle
Benefits
- multiple group medical, dental and vision plans
- a robust wellness program
- life insurance and disability coverages
- a variety of voluntary programs such as group accident, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance and much more
- 401(k) plan with a matching contribution
- vacation and sick time programs for associates
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
procurementSAPP2P technologiescontract managementRFX applicationsAribaCoupabusiness transformationsystems implementationprocess optimization
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationinfluencingleadershipproblem-solvingchange managementproject managementadaptabilityuser readinessmilestone tracking