Lead Sourcing Specialist

What's the role?:
**This global role shall consist of**:

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Strategic System Administration**: Oversee the comprehensive management and maintenance of the Coupa platform, including advanced user access controls, system configurations, and updates.
- ** Advanced Support and Troubleshooting**: Provide expert-level technical support to users and stakeholders, resolve complex issues and ensure high system availability and performance.
- ** Process Optimization**: Lead initiatives to identify and implement process improvements, leveraging best practices to enhance procurement efficiency and effectiveness.
- ** Training and Mentorship**: Develop and deliver advanced training programs for users together with the Global Process team. Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations and procedures.
- ** Integration Leadership**: Collaborate with IT and other departments to manage and optimize the integration of Coupa with other business systems, ensuring seamless data flow and process alignment.
- ** Compliance and Security Oversight**: Ensure the Coupa system adheres to company policies and industry regulations, maintaining robust data security and compliance standards.
- ** Reporting**: Provide data intelligence support for the Procurement team, stakeholders and senior management by creating and maintaining reports, dashboards and analytics.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Administration of the platform**:

- Support of the P2P system, ongoing configuration and integration support of the configured system, and support for all Coupa upgrades.
- Support the various processes and actions to be carried out by stakeholders whilst using the tool.
- Maintain system data and access including, users, approvers, vendors.
- Escalate performance and functional issues with Coupa vendor product support.
- Actively identify opportunities to leverage Coupa functionalities to improve efficiency.

**Reporting/Data Analytics**:

- Be a resource to assist the Coupa community in the development of ad-hoc/regular reports or queries using various tools. This will require the ability to understand data structures and analyze data retrievals.
- Develop Sourcing analytics in the Coupa platform to support the Sourcing team and HERE stakeholders.

Who are you?:
**EXPERIENCE**
- 6+ years of hands-on configuration and daily administration experience with the platform Coupa.
- Project management experience in the Procurement software landscape, preferably with Coupa.
- Experience with complex system integrations and data migration.
- Experience in change management and driving user adoption of new Procurement tools and technologies.
- Must have worked in e-procurement modules such as Procure, Invoice, Pay, Sourcing, Contract, Supplier Management, Analytics, Expense management, integration with major ERP’s preferably PeopleSoft.
- Deep understanding of Source to Pay process. Experience in Master Data Load and Data Handling (Extraction/Transformation/ Manipulation) is preferred but not a must
- Strong experience with user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Strong people skills to support users effectively
- Strong analytical skills geared towards troubleshooting
- Must be able to work in a complex and fast-paced environment
- Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite - Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Must have effective interpersonal skills and judgment to handle sensitive and confidential information and situations
- Must have strong English verbal and written communication skills
- Proactive and innovative attitude
- Self-directed, self-motivated and capable of working with little supervision

Who are we?:
HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes - from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

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