Global Purchasing Senior Specialist

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Position Purpose

The Global Purchasing Sr. Specialist plays a crucial role in coordinating and leading financial and vendor management in a multi-country environment for HR.

• Build and Maintain Supplier Governance with assigned HR function and/or geographic region.
• Provide continuous improvement within Global Vendor Management Processes to enhance stakeholder’s experience and align business strategy/requirements.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise with BMS Policy and Procedures for purchasing and payment processing.
• Collaborative with internal and external parties to problem solve with an understanding of end-to-end processes and knowledge of impacts to decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively executing and coordinating the "Purchase to pay" process for People Services, working closely with regional teams and SMEs across HR and BMS.
• Manage the monitoring and tracking invoices to ensure timely payment.
• Conducting financial tracking, monitoring, and reporting of Purchase Orders against actual budgeted amounts.
• Preparing and communicating monthly financial variance reports
• Lead collaboration with cross-functional teams, both internal and external to ensure invoices are validated and approved before releasing payment.
• Executing full life cycle of Purchase Orders management in SAP/ARIBA including creation, maintenance, on-time payments, and closure.
• Building relationships with cross-functional teams such as Accounts Payable, Global Payments, Finance, Procurement, and functional support teams.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise regarding Procurement and Finance policies and procedures, utilizing SAP, ARIBA, and Icertis.
• Work with HR and Finance to manage the harmonization of various acquired companies. Ensuring that benefits and compensation have been correctly aligned to allow for the smooth day to day running of the business without any issues.
• Provide insight and guidance to HR on the BMS ways of working addressing issues such as:
  • Managing procurement processes
  • Overseeing vendor creation
  • Contract management
  • Facilitating the I2P process
  • Handling non-BMS system payments through heritage payment systems.

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelors degree
• Experience with financial/budget
• Experience in purchase order/vendor payment Processing utilizing SAP / Ariba
• Ability to work in a matrix team with strong exceptional organizational skills.
• Advanced level data analysis, excel and complex reporting skills.
• Excellent communication skills in order to work across regional remote teams and markets.
• Ability to identify, analyze and solve problems, with limited guidance.
• Identify and drive areas for continuous improvement.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work.