Procure to Pay Partner

Job description

Solvay is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. With more than 24,100 employees in 64 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. The Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet plan crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering better life. The Group’s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems. Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world’s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of €10.2 billion in 2019. Solvay is listed on Euronext Brussels (SOLB) and Paris and in the United States, where its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a Level I ADR program. Solvay Busines Services (SBS) is the global organization supporting internal and external growth by integrating the major end-to-end administrative processes as well as the information services of the Solvay Group, through three strategic objectives: strategic agility and customer centricity, service excellence and talents and innovation.

Job Overview and Responsibilities:

Successful position holders are excellent communicators, comfortable with public speaking, enjoy solving problems, work well in team, passion for customer service, effective at cross-functional teamwork, ability to interact with operations persons on basic requests and ability work fast and on numerous requests simultaneously.

The End User Partner (Procure to Pay) will report to the Team Leader and will be responsible for a defined geographical scope (US, Mexico and/or Canada) and the full Procure to Pay (PtP) scope, which include key responsibilities:

·  to drive user performance & compliance related to PtP processes
·  to implement new processes, tools and best practices in collaboration with the Site Buyers
·  to support & train users and buyers in execution of their PtP transactional activities
·  to be the dedicated point of contact for problem resolution
·  to understand and escalate operational issues within Operations (Service Center) to the Manager/Leader
·  to propose improvement opportunities to the Site Buyers and End User Partner Manager

Education and Experience:

·  Bachelor degree preferred.
·  Minimum 2 years of work experience required; manufacturing experience a plus.
·  At least 5 years of experience in Procurement and/or Accounts Payable required.
·  15-20% travel

Skills:

·  Experience in public speaking or presenting to diverse audiences required.
·  ERP skills required; SAP skills preferred
·  Strong communication and collaboration skills
·  Customer and result orientation
·  Active listening skills and proven experience in problem resolution
·  Analytical skills
·  Marketing skills
·  Knowledge in IT tools & systems, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint

Additional Information

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