Mgr-procurement

**Job Number** 23092411

**Job Category** Procurement, Purchasing, and Quality Assurance

**Location** Mexico Regional Office, Ejercito Nacional No. 350 Suite 4C, Mexico City, MÉX, Mexico

**Schedule** Full-Time

**Located Remotely?** Y

**Relocation?** N

**Position Type** Management
**JOB SUMMARY**:
As a member of the Global Procurement team, the Manager eProcurement, is part of the Global Operations (GO) organization, which is known for taking ideas into implementation across all brands, disciplines, and continents and reports to the Director, eProcurement. This role provides functional eProcurement expertise and consultative support to regional and property teams for properties in CALA. This position is responsible for the development, deployment, maintenance, and measurement of the processes and tools to successfully manage eProcurement and the procurement platform implementation. This includes the development and deployment of the BirchStreet HotShop platform, inventory systems and related reporting, tracking and measurement, partnering with key stakeholders in Global Procurement, Americas Finance and MBS/AHS. This position will be based in the CALA region and will require travel to hotels in the CALA and US/Canada[MJ1] region to implement HotShop eProcurement providing guidance on other modules such as Inventory to all hotels in scope.

This position will report to the Director eProcurement and assist and provide support to the Director in leading eProcurement and Inventory implementations and support for all hotels and users throughout CALA.

**CANDIDATE PROFILE**

**Education and Experience**

**Required**
- 4-year bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related major
- 3+ years of progressive related work experience, preferably in hospitality field
- Ability to travel approximately up to 50% of the time. Mostly within CALA Region and travel to US and Canada as needed
- Bilingual - English and Spanish
- Familiarity with purchasing/procurement, finance and inventory processes and policies and associated systems. Data analysis and manipulation skills; critical thinking and ability to work with data sets from multiple support ticket tracking tools
- Demonstrated customer support experience including issue research and resolution

**Preferred**
- Effective verbal and written communications to interface well with properties, Finance teams, MBS/AHS, BirchStreet Systems, Procurement, and suppliers.
- Enterprise mindset; able to work with diverse stakeholders with focus on developing and integrating best practices across all brands & businesses
- Ability to communicate important finance information and policy effectively with non-finance managers
- Ability to communicate important technical information effectively with non-technology managers
- Thorough knowledge of the principles, procedures, and techniques of accounting, and of financial records and transactions including, but not limited to, generally accepted accounting principles
- Strong analytical and data management skills
- Knowledge of operating procedures, controls, and governance
- Challenges organizational norms and accepted thinking to improve effectiveness
- Strong focus on the customer, both internal and external
- Strong business acumen
- Self-motivated

**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**
- Assists or leads system deployments for new openings/transitions/exits to ensure key finance processes are supported.
- Monitors and manages the implementation progress and deployment of eProcurement and Inventory solutions to vendors and business functions.
- Identifies trends, successes, and areas of need or opportunity and provides recommendations for training solutions. Monitors support tickets and provides assistance to resolve.
- Provides assistance for the implementation and deployment of eProcurement and Inventory solution with vendors and business functions.
- Drives alignment to finance and operation’s policies and procedures, provides support to hotel and area finance teams to resolve conflicts.
- Reviews scorecard reporting to the properties, which is a mix of financial and process metrics, and includes recommendations/observations.
- Manages system data to support development and roll out of procurement initiatives, provides processes and communications that create accountability with project team to drive results.
- Supports change initiatives that support the business strategy; Is a change management advocate
- Collaborate across various disciplines including Global Procurement, Operations and Finance
- Negotiates effective solutions by knowing when to compromise and by winning concessions
- Effectively obtains and manages resources to capitalize on business opportunities
- Identifies trends, successes, and areas of need or opportunity and provides recommendations for training solutions.
- Regularly reviews position IDs for all users to ensure compliance with finance policy. Escalates a