Global Key User Purchase‑to‑Pay (P2P) – Procurement Digital & Analytics
(Maternity leave cover - 24 months)
About Hero Group
Hero Group is a leading international food company with a strong heritage and a clear purpose: to delight consumers by conserving the goodness of nature. Operating across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, Hero continuously invests in digital transformation to strengthen efficiency, compliance, and collaboration across its global value chain. Procurement plays a key role in this journey, ensuring transparent, compliant, and data‑driven processes from source to pay.
Role Overview:
As Global Key User Purchase‑to‑Pay (P2P) – Procurement Digital & Analytics, you are a central SAP and process expert for the global P2P landscape. You drive standardization, digitalization, and analytics across the Hero Group, acting as a key interface between Procurement, IT, Finance, and global SAP teams.
This role combines process ownership, master data governance, analytics enablement, and project work, including an active role in global SAP S/4HANA rollouts. You support operational procurement teams worldwide while continuously improving efficiency, data quality, and compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
* Drive and govern the global Purchase‑to‑Pay (P2P) process, acting as SAP specialist and global P2P Key User.
* Support and co‑lead global SAP S/4HANA rollout activities in close collaboration with the global P2P and SAP teams.
* Develop, standardize, and maintain global Ways of Working (WoW), process templates, and P2P documentation.
* Analyze P2P processes to identify opportunities for standardization, digitalization, automation, and continuous improvement.
* Co‑lead the No PO – No Pay initiative and the global P2P Community, ensuring an effective support structure.
* Own and govern procurement master data globally, including data quality, migration support, and compliance with governance standards.
* Act as Key User for procurement analytics (SIEVO), ensuring user support, training, and high data and spend classification quality.
* Collaborate cross‑functionally with Procurement, IT, Finance, Supply Chain, and local entities to coordinate global process and data changes.
Who you are:
Required Qualifications
* University degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) or comparable qualification
* Minimum 2 years of experience in P2P, procurement operations, or related ERP environments
* Strong hands‑on experience with SAP S/4HANA or SAP R/3 (P2P focus)
* Solid understanding of procurement processes and documentation standards
* Good analytical skills and structured, solution‑oriented working style
* Confident communication with internal stakeholders and suppliers
* Fluent German and English (mandatory)
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with SAP Ariba, procurement master data management, or spend analytics
* Key‑user or project experience in global ERP rollouts
* Basic lean or process improvement methodology knowledge
* Experience with SIEVO or comparable procurement analytics tools
* Additional languages such as Spanish or Swedish
What We Offer
* A global role with high visibility and real impact on procurement transformation
* Active involvement in SAP S/4HANA and digitalization initiatives
* Collaboration in an international, cross‑functional en
* Opportunity to shape global standards, processes, and analytics in Procurement
* A purpose‑driven company culture within a globally respected food group
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