Expert Country Partner

**At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.**

**Expert Country Partner**

**Major tasks and responsabilities**:
Acts as a main point of contact for stakeholders and users per country (- group) representing Source to Pay and Procurement.
- Act as S2P Partner connecting business inquiries and take up management escalation for proper solution within the Procurement operation model.
- Make usage of language capabilities to communicate towards country users or external suppliers.
- Ensure that local legal requirements and regulations are considered in the respective Contract to Pay Processes. Define, maintain, and monitor Country specifics, foster standardized processes in the country (-group) and initiate process adjustment based on local rules and regulations.
- Ensure close collaboration with other Country Partners, Source to Pay capabilities and other Procurement Areas to look for synergies
- Provide procurement support for Country Organization like local audit coordination and cross functional projects, be responsible for communication with local authorities and provide on-site and language support for incident management.
- Provide country (-group) insights for S2P Operations and Procurement Areas based on data analytics and user feedback.
- Constantly puts stakeholders in the center of all the actions and initiatives to improve user experience.
- Actively engage in projects implementation and deliver timely change management communications and training for stakeholders across the country (-group).

**Geographical scope**:Country or group of countries

**Value added**:

- Ensure value delivery by providing innovative solutions in S2P process to improve business users' experience. Engages, coordinates, or leads country (-group) process initiatives in relation to E2E processes.
- Maintain proper Stakeholder Management towards Country Management and users, establish and run Procurement User communities with the country organization based on business needs.
- Provide language skills and process know how for exceptional handling. Manage Contract to Pay related communication with local authorities.
- Act as Member of the GBS - Source to Pay team representing Country
- /Business User requirements.

**Work relations**:
Internal:

- Country /-group Management (e.g. CFO, Site Manager).
- Procurement Areas management and teams, Global Process Owners.
- Internal Audit, IT, LPC, GFI
- Global Operation Manager, Center of Excellence, Operation Manager of other functions, Team Leads of other S2P teams or other functions.
- IT Experts and solution designers.

External:

- Strategic supplier, GEP
- External auditor
- Other Service Center

**Qualifications**:
Studies of Economics or similar with several years of experience in this area.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills in English. Proficiency in additional EMEA languages will be considered an advantage.
- Very good analytical skills (data analytics and proven usage of digital tools), passion for innovation.
- Passionate to obtain positive business user experience.
- Business insight (knowledgeable about process and systems)
- Proactive attitude to drive process changes and improvements, proven ability to work under pressure, resilience to manage conflicts with high sense of urgency, ability to operate in a highly intercultural environment.
- Willingness to travel.

**YOUR APPLICATION**

This is your opportunity to tackle the world’s biggest challenges with us: Maintaining our health, feeding growing populations and slowing the rate of climate change. You have a voice, ideas and perspectives and we want to hear them. Because our success begins with you. Be part of something big. Be Bayer.

**Location**:
Spain : Cataluña : Barcelona

**Division**:
Enabling Functions

**Reference Code**:
853841