Purchasing Digital and Platforms Manager

**Location**:Courbevoie, FR, 92400**Function**:Purchasing**Employment type**:Full Time**Required experience**:Experienced - over 5 years**Reference ID**:76149Purchasing Digital and Platforms Manager (H/F)

**Country**: France (FR) - **Location**: Nexans HQ-Courbevoie**Function**: Purchasing**Contract Type** : Permanent contract**Purchasing Digital and Platforms Manager (H/F)**

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**PURPOSE**
- She/ He is the referent for ERP-linked Puchasing activities, and Ariba. Ensures the run, and promotes/develops projects on these platforms, in adequation with the strategy defined by the Purchasing Operations Director:
- SAP key user for central IT
- Ariba key user for central IT
- Functional Referent on Ariba related projects
- Functional Referent on all ERP related adaptations in alignment with Central IT
- Supports the Purchasing function to build the roadmap of Purchasing IT roadmap, including integration with other platforms

**AREA OF RESPONSABILITIES**
- She/He is responsible for:
- Managing the Nexans configuration of Ariba
- Owner of the Ariba configuration
- Pilots L2 support on a daily basis
- Leads all followups with support platforms (Ariba L2, Purchasing operations support) related to any interface, process modification or Ariba templates modification
- Monitors the health of the platform by requesters, purchasers, and approvers (usage, master data alignment, process clarification)
- Leads discussions with Ariba Support Teams
- Managing the configuration changes and status on all SAPs as functional key-user:

- Ensuring consistency with central master data repository
- Point of contact whenever IT/Finance need clarification or adjustment on configuration
- Liaise on a daily basis with the Operations teams - to document and put in perspective of functional projects
- Advising on any ERP when Ariba / Supplier Master data projects mandate convergence to:

- Central Supplier Master Data platform
- Ariba
- Coordinating with Supply Chain and Finance functional leads
- Interfacing with Finance lead on invoice platform, if all Finance tools
- Ensuring correct customs and tax data availability
- Represent Purchasing on any alignment / continuous improvement initiative
- Propose continuous improvement approach and monitor effectiveness of implementation
- Ensuring visibility on platforms total cost of ownership, and eventually proposing improvements.
- Animate and manage a team of data/Ariba specialists

**POSITION SIZING & SPECIFICITIES**
- Internal relations - Collaborate closely with Purchasing Operation team, Purchasing community and other functions’ stakeholders
- External relations : Monitor specific workstreams with sub contractors
- Manage a team of 2 collaborators

**REQUIRED SKILLS & COMPETENCES**
- Education and training:
- University diploma (master) or equivalent (experience)- Technical knowledge and skills:
- Fluent English
- Outsourced Teams management
- Leadership and ability to work within a network
- Strong SAP expertise
- Strong Ariba technical and functional knowledge
- Good understanding of Accounting/Supply Chain issues related to Purchasing
- Analytic mindset
- Keen understanding of internal control requirements
- Soft knowledge and skills:
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Leadership and ability to influence and work within a network
- Curious, ability to propose innovations
- Ability to manage complexity & multiple activities
- Customer focus
- Advanced communication skills
- Experience:
- Ideally, he/she has a strong purchasing/IT experience with at least 10 years working experience in industrial and global environments**OUR GROWTH CULTURE**
- Among our employees we share the same values
- we are pioneers of the energy transition, dedicated to deliver to the highest standards of performance, united to achieve our ambitious goal.- At the individual level our growth culture is built on trust and collaboration. We wish to welcome you as a valuable member of our team. To enable impact we believe in autonomy at the local level at the same time as we encourage knowledge sharing within our global engineering competence.**REFERRAL REQUEST**
- In case this is not the job for you, but perhaps you have a friend who would be a great match - please forward the job to them, thanks