Procure to Pay Global Process Owner

**Procure to Pay Global Process Owner**:
**Do you want to help improve diet and health worldwide?**

At Oterra, food and health are at the heart of everything we do and every day, more than 400 million people eat a product with our colors. We believe nature got it right the first time and as a leading manufacturer of colors from natural sources, we are here to make a difference for a healthy lifestyle and sustainable agriculture. We need the brightest and most passionate people on board to succeed.

Until 1 April 2021, Oterra was part of Chr. Hansen A/S, a Danish listed company. On April 1, the company was sold to EQT, a leading Nordic private equity firm, and now operates as a stand-alone company. Since April 1st, the Oterra Group has made two acquisitions of new companies and one of these acquisitions has significantly increased our presence in France. Want to join us?

**The team you will join**

Oterra is currently seeking a **Global Process Owner for the Procure to Pay** to join an international team. You will report - with a matrix reporting line - to the Global GPO Manager and to Global Sourcing. You can be based in Parma (Italy), Montpellier (France) or Valencia (Spain).

**The adventure we offer you**

Global Sourcing is looking for an experienced individual to join the Team as a Global Process Owner (GPO) for the Procure to Pay (P2P). The P2P GPO will be responsible for leading the relationship with our Procure to Pay outsourcing vendor and overseeing internal day-to-day operations with the goal of integrating new businesses, realizing efficiencies, and enhanced continuous improvement.

As P2P GPO, your main tasks will be focused on governance and ownership for Process Improvement and harmonization for new businesses acquisitions, driving relevant topics and evaluating SAP HANA standards and upgrades. Additionally, you will be responsible for the coordination of User Acceptance Testing Process and Performance.

**Your missions will be**
- Be responsible for the consistent global end-to-end Direct and Indirect Procure to Pay (P2P) user’s profile roles, process implementation and governance for new businesses integration, which supports Procurement targets and Oterra’s business objectives
- Lead further optimization and harmonization projects for P2P process, procedures and organization to optimize productivity and meet global compliance requirements
- Drive further automation of the P2P interface processes (e.g. approvals, catalogs, use of contracts, etc.)
- Drive and support the use of Direct and Indirect Buying solutions, process and procedures
- Drive major process design efforts and be accountable for their successful implementation, support integration projects that impact the global process
- Drive organization results through prioritization, communication and planning
- Map current processes and drive process standardization
- Drive global deployment and adoption of a standard end to end process, with regional and local requirements customization only when necessary
- Define and maintain the process and control standards documentation for P2P
- Consistently evaluate processes to ensure business is operating in compliant and efficient manner
- Facilitate new plant migrations in SAP HANA and related data migration process
- Review and conduct online training and lessons learned from P2P at local sites
- Collaborate to ensure resources are properly trained on processes, policies, and systems
- Manage the interface with other processes, procurement functions and other relevant Workstreams (RTR, MTO, OTC, EWM, SCM, TM)
- Collaborate with corporate functions, data owners/stewards, peers and external P2P practitioners to ensure standardization and alignment across policy, process, and data
- Monitor relevant policy adoption and template adherence, and drive the business towards common, standard global solutions.
- Create a prioritized, metric-driven pipeline of process related improvements and opportunities
- Provide recommendations and suggestions for improvements

**Who are we looking for?**

Your professional acumen and experience make up most of your qualifications, but it's your personality that makes the difference to succeed in this role.

You have a degree in Economics, Informatics, Engineering, or equivalent field of studies.

You already have 5 years of experience within P2P Procurement processes and/or Procurement process design. You have a previous experience of working on transformational global environment, preferably with process, usage and experience of SAP HANA environment experience in Procure to Pay.

We are looking for someone dynamic, enthusiastic, collaborative, able to drive changes and continuous improvement. You are able to manage multifunctional, diverse teams in a project, you will be working with different countries. Your ability to communicate, written and oral, will help you to succeed and share your ideas.

You speak English fluently, another language would be a p