Senior Manager Business Process Excellence – Procure to Pay (f/m/x)

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In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

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You want to drive change and establish business process excellence at ZEISS? This position offers you the chance to work on one of ZEISS' key group programs and to shape our S/4HANA greenfield business transformation to drive harmonization and standardization of processes and structures that define the way how ZEISS will work for years to come.

• take responsibility to achieve the best solution for ZEISS, balancing individual functional and segment needs by improving the Procure-to-Pay End-to-End process workstream, working on topics such as: Supplier management incl. request for quotation, demand management and vendor evaluation; different types of purchase order processing, incl. material and service purchasing as well as intercompany transactions account payable management, incl. invoice verification, approval and vendor payments
  

• take on a moderating and leadership role, understanding and mastering the individual processes, in order to moderate between the ZEISS functions and process experts in a goal-oriented manner
  

• steer and orchestrate necessary external consulting support within your workstream
  

• In addition, you will exchange information with your fellow workstream leads to ensure best practice sharing and integration into related processes or systems and report your results to the overall program management
  

• own the alignment of the workstream progress with the overall program plan, ensure planning, implementation, and improvement measures of your workstream and thus make a significant contribution to the overall project success
  

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• a Masters degree in Finance, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering or a similar field of study
  

• proven experience managing projects in the area of business process excellence - experience with SAP ERP transformations and esp. Procurement and Accounts Payable would be highly recommended
  

• results-oriented, analytical and organizational skills paired with strong change communications skills to develop and successfully implement strategic plans
  

• a strong change management perspective
  

• fluent in German and English, both written and spoken