Procurement Automation & Operations Specialist

Tarkett has a great opportunity for a Procurement Automation & Operations Specialist

The Procurement Automation & Operations Specialist is the automation engineering and analytics owner within Tarkett North America’s Strategic Procurement function. This Specialist backs up the Procurement Operations & Process Improvement Specialist on PR/PO execution and leads automation building — Power Automate, RPA, AI Builder, Copilot Studio, and BOT solutions — along with procurement reporting, savings tracking, price impact, PPI, and market intelligence across all procurement categories.

On the execution side, this role is a trained, capable backup to the Procurement Operations & Process Improvement Specialist on PR/PO — covering overflow, absence, and surge volume. The primary contribution is automation engineering in Power Automate and ownership of the savings tracker (Finance-facing), plus price impact, PPI, market intelligence, and procurement reporting outputs that serve a broad audience including Procurement leadership, Finance, and stakeholders.

The ideal candidate is a capable automation builder with solid procurement knowledge and experience — someone who can cover PR/PO when needed but whose primary contribution is building automations in Power Automate and owning reporting, savings, and pricing analytics — someone who identifies inefficiency, builds the solution, and sustains it. Both competencies are required from day one.

Your skills we value:

PR/PO Execution — Backup & Overflow

• Serves as trained backup to the Procurement Operations & Process Improvement Specialist on PR/PO execution — covers overflow, absence, and surge volume across all procurement categories.
• Maintains full SAP/SRM buying proficiency to execute PR/PO independently when covering for the Procurement Operations & Process Improvement Specialist; applies procurement policy and buying judgment consistent with established standards.
•  Owns Investment Approval Form (IAF) workflow coordination with Finance and Project Owners; routes non-contracted spend decisions in partnership with Category Managers.

Automation Engineering — Primary Function

• Designs, builds, validates, deploys, and sustains automation solutions using Power Automate, RPA platforms (Precisely Automate Studio, UiPath), AI Builder, Copilot Studio, and BOT solutions — translating scoped requirements from the Procurement Operations & Process Improvement Specialist into working, sustained solutions targeting the highest-friction P2P workflows.
• Owns the full automation lifecycle: current-state process documentation, solution design, build, UAT, deployment, and ongoing bot monitoring and maintenance.
• Surfaces automation opportunities from daily operational work; develops structured proposals for the Procurement Operations & Process Improvement Specialist to evaluate and prioritize.
• Executes automation and process improvement projects as assigned by the Process Improvement leads - owns delivery from kickoff through sustainment with no abandoned projects.
• Integrates AI and machine learning capabilities (document intelligence, NLP, AI-assisted decision logic) with RPA bots to handle unstructured data and exception logic in P2P workflows.
• Supports Celonis-driven improvement initiatives by providing operational transaction context and executing assigned corrective process actions.

Digital Transformation Contribution

• Contributes directly to Tarkett's digital procurement system implementation — supports current-state documentation, process readiness, and data quality work required for platform deployment.
• Maintains comprehensive SOP and process map library in SharePoint; ensures documentation precedes any process change or automation deployment.
• Monitors P2P KPI dashboards; surfaces exception trends, performance anomalies, and systemic issues with supporting data to the Process Improvement lead.
• Provides SAP/SRM subject matter expertise on procurement master data: purchasing info records, outline agreements, and supplier setup coordination.
• Supports maintenance of the Tarkett SharePoint Procurement site, MS Teams procurement files, and supplier contract storage system.

Procurement Reporting

• Own and produce the monthly procurement reporting package — delivered on time, accurate, and formatted for leadership consumption.
• Produce spend analytics and spend reporting; identify trends, anomalies, and areas of concentration that inform category and sourcing strategy.
• Continuously improve reporting outputs as team needs evolve; proactively suggest new analyses and views that add decision-making value; partner with the Procurement Analyt