About the Role
- Seeking a data professional with 3+ years of experience to lead the SAP Purchasing Data Team. You will optimize tools, drive accurate SAP data entry, and collaborate with Procurement & Finance to empower supply chain operations for our farmers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the SAP Purchasing Data Team to drive execution excellence by ensuring high accuracy and timeliness in processes, timely closure of purchase orders, and consistent on-time payments
- Own purchasing data team KPI. Collaborate with the team to ensure they are accurate, using them to prioritize improvements and manage team performance.
- Own purchasing data entry and Payment Flow for critical supply chain operations by working closely with Procurement, Sourcing and Finance. This will ultimately support procurement requisitions, receiving inputs, sending payments, and other data in between.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration by designing and facilitating recurring and ad-hoc meetings with Procurement, Inventory Data, Payments, and Tech teams. Establish clear agendas, track action items to closure, and optimize meeting structures to minimize duplication and enhance overall efficiency.
- Develop your team through regular check-ins, team meetings, and Performance and Development Reviews. Over time, raise the performance expectations.
- Own the Closure of Open POs (purchase orders) by leading weekly reviews and ensuring timely resolution.
Drive Innovation in Tools & Best Practices
- Provide strategic leadership in developing tools and best practices that empower the team, strengthen process consistency, and scale operational excellence across the Department
- Lead data quality initiatives and establish standardized practices that elevate operational excellence, enhance efficiency, and strengthen customer service. Drive continuous improvement through effective project management and ensure sustainable adoption by fostering stakeholder alignment, capacity building, and change management.
- Prevent fraud and loss by implementing strong controls, conducting periodic data analysis, and escalating anomalies to leadership to proactively identify and mitigate risks of fraud or loss
- Own the cash forecasting process via a robust annual forecasting process, monthly budget updates, ongoing approval process with finance and timely payment support. Own collaboration with the payment team to flag upcoming payments, the root cause of Late payments and flag urgent payments.
- Standard costing data set up: Implementing quarterly standard costing updates in collaboration with the accounting team, in order to ensure accurate accounting books.
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- Strong data and analytical skills; Comfort with advanced Excel; experience working in SAP preferred.
- Incredible attention to detail – can pick out a mistake in a data set.
- Creativity and strong problem-solving skills; constantly looks for alternative solutions to problems.
- Excellent stakeholder coordination skills; strong writer and verbal communicator who can negotiate with internal clients and be persuasive but who is also humble and open to other viewpoints.