Business Relastionship Manager for Procurement

**Description**

**Ready to contribute to the future of automotive industry?**

We are part of Hitachi Astemo focusing on world-leading advanced mobility solutions within the fields of electrification, autonomous driving, and connectivity to help reduce environmental damage, decrease traffic accidents, and improve comfort. Together, we contribute to a sustainable society and improved quality of life by providing mobility solutions that satisfy our customers and form the future core of automotive and motorcycle systems. Our people are at the heart of achieving these goals, and we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
- Own the Future, become a part of the team as:_

**Business Relationship Manager for Procurement (M/F/d)**
- The Business Relationship Manager (BRM) builds and maintains strategic relationships with business stakeholders, aligning their goals with effective solutions. They oversee end-to-end process mapping across multiple business units, leading a global team to design and implement high-quality solutions within Astemo. Additionally, they stay updated on emerging technologies to enhance business processes within their domain of expertise._

**Your core responsibilities include**:
**Process design and implementation**
- Define and own the procure-to-pay process from technical perspective, including direct and indirect procurement for the enterprise, at the global and enterprise level
- Collaborate with the business E2E process owners as well as functional departments on global, regional, and site level to implement standard P2P processes
- Work closely with E2E process owners, procurement leaders and major stakeholders and ensure the process definition is aligned with the enterprise vision
- Work with IT and SI counterparts for successful solution validation, process design, solution implementation, testing, and roll-out
- Ensure compliance to corporate policies, regulatory guidelines and internal controls for concerned countries.
- Act as expert and focal point for the development and enhancement of the Procure-to-Pay solution and provide support to local super-users / stakeholders on crucial functionalities and/or issues

**Process operations and optimization**:

- Ensures the timely and accurate delivery of P2P Operations (Operational Procurement, Accounts Payables) to internal customers
- Ensure that adequate and updated process documentation exists and is used
- Handle queries and escalations, respond to critical vendor and internal customer inquiries
- Drive innovation and implementation of new technologies to improve the procure-to-pay process
- Drive standardization and harmonization of procure-to-pay processes

**Profile and Qualifications**:
**Experience**
- 7+ years of experience in procurement and procure-to-pay processes from a technical or business perspective, preferably in the automotive industry.
- Strong expertise in Procure-to-Pay processes, with experience in process ownership, management, and operational excellence.
- Knowledge of external compliance requirements related to Procure-to-Pay and experience working with outsourcing partners.
- Proven ability to collaborate with key stakeholders across multiple countries and organizational levels to secure buy-in and commitment.

**Soft skills**:

- Strong communication skills to manage various stakeholders from business and technical side
- Strong ability to influence important stakeholders through a mix of business acumen, technical understanding, and people skills
- Result-oriented mindset

**Technical skills**:

- Deep knowledge of SAP MM module and SAP S/4HANA procure to pay processes
- Good understanding of procure to pay tool landscape for multinational players
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills in the optimization of processes

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Finance, Procurement / Supply Chain Management, or related field
- Fluency in English

**Benefits**
- 30 days of annuals leave
- Corporate company benefits (pension scheme, accident insurance )
- Hybrid working options.
- Company business bike leasing
- Working in an international team

**Why Hitachi Astemo?**

At Hitachi Astemo, we respect each other, never pass the buck and work creatively to accomplish our mission. Our people are given exciting opportunities to develop and grow in a truly international business, where they are proud to be part of a collaborative and innovative team. Diversity & Inclusion is valued to build and leverage an inclusive work environment and embrace diversity to unlock our full potential. We believe that this will give us the strength to drive great innovations to create new values for people, vehicles and the society, and to unlock our full potential to become a global leader in everything we do.