Procurement Manager - Digital Transformation

at Amcor Rigid Packaging in Itasca, Illinois, United States

Job Description

We are global, we are impacting the lives of millions every day, we are making a difference!
At Amcor we are inspired to change the packaging industry and are taking on the aspirational challenge to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. Through our products and global footprint, we are in a unique position to truly make a difference in the packaging space. Our products impact the lives of millions of people across the globe every day from food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other essential products. Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860's and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.

Will you be next to join our journey towards a more sustainable future?At Amcor we are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to providing sustainable packaging solutions. To find out more about our commitment to sustainability and about Amcor, visitwww.amcor.com.

Job Description
***The corporate office is in Ann Arbor, MI. If the candidate in a different states please note that they may be required to travel to the office several times every so often.***

Position Overview:

Amcor's procurement function is strengthening its future-ready operating model to accelerate serving our customer with sustainable packaging solutions through digitalization over the next 5 years. Amcor expects this people leader to strengthen our highly engaged and consistently outperforming global digital procurement operations team to be groomed into future Amcor leaders via a balance of coaching and mentoring techniques. The Procurement Manager - Digital Transformation is a business/functional role for a tech-savvy supply chain leader. The role will develop the vision and drive the functional digital strategy to transform procurement's operating model. That vision is envisioned to be achieved through (re)design and blueprinting of procurement processes where necessary, creating an end-to-end Digital Procurement suite across source to pay processes. The leader will be responsible for working directly with the 3rd party technology platform providers and other internal business partners to manage the scope and deliverables of the enablement process. Leadership and communication with all levels of the organization and global/local suppliers will be required.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:

Develop vision, strategy and manage delivery of digital transformation programs
Develop the vision and create mid and long-term strategy for the digitalization of the procurement function.
Understand established and emerging new digital technologies and defines how they could be applicable to transform procurement processes and ways of working (AI, Robotics and Automation, Predictive analytics, etc.)
Scout, understand and maintain up to date knowledge of digital procurement developments and solutions (including solutions coming from startups as well as established suppliers)
Develop user cases and drive scalability and adoption across the procurement organization.
Ensure projects and programs are delivered in accordance with timelines and budgets.
Provide input to the procurement data strategy, data model, governance and processes for effective enablement of digital transformation.
Continually understand Procurement and key stakeholders' expectations related to systems, processes and technology.
Tracking budget and ROI for transformation Initiatives.
Lead the implementation of digital solutions working closely with IT, Global Master Data and Analytics, Procurement Operations and Category Leaders, Operations and Finance stakeholders.
Develop digital learning journeys so procurement employees can develop themselves further

Managing implementation and updates to global Source to Pay solution
Manage P2P solutions components-catalogs, Supplier onboarding, features Enhancements.
Collaborate with the design and modeling of global source to pay process and business systems conceptual architectures for delivery, capturing requirements, development, and support of projects.
Manage identification and implementation of supplier catalog improvements with the objective of continually driving spend reductions.... For full info follow application link.

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