(Senior) Manager Procurement Excellence and Digitalization (m/w/d)

• Define and enforce procurement policies and standards 
• Align processes across categories and regions 
• Ensure compliance and continuous improvement

• Lead procurement input into SAP transformation 
• Translate business needs into system requirements 
• Implement digital tools and automated workflows 
• Drive AI use cases such as spend analysis, demand forecasting, and supplier risk assessment 

• Define and track KPIs such as savings, lead time, and compliance 
• Build dash boards and standardize reporting
• Identify cost and efficiency opportunities through data insights 

• Define supplier performance frameworks
• Support strategic supplier reviews
• Strengthen risk and due diligence processes 

• Align strategic and operational teams
• Support workload balance and capability growth 
• Act as escalation point for procurement issues 

• 6–10 years in procurement operations, excellence, or transformation roles 
• Direct SAP experience in a procurement context (MM, Ariba, S/4HANA) — ideally during an active implementation 
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into system/IT specifications 
• Experience building and owning procurement KPI frameworks and dashboards 
• Track record of driving process adoption across peers without direct authority 
• Experience coaching or structuring work for more junior colleagues 
• Business fluent English; German a strong plus 

Strong differentiators 

• Has been the procurement-side owner in an SAP go-live — not IT, not consulting 
• Hands-on experience with AI or automation in procurement (spend analytics, supplier mgmt, demand forecasting) 
• Project Management certificates  
• Pan-European or multi-country procurement exposure 
• Supplier performance framework or SRM experience