Business Process and Systems Expert Ariba Upstream

• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance

• 10% Employee Benefit Budget

• EUR 1,400 development budget per year

• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)

• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

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As a Business Process and System Expert (BPSE) you understand Procurement, define business requirements and translate them into a Functional Design (people, process, system) for the Ariba system and ensure realization and implementation is executed in a professional manner .

PVM - a global unit within Rabobank consisting of approximately 110 FTEs - is the process owner of procurement and vendor management processes and contributes to a strong cooperative bank by procuring goods and services at the optimal mix of low costs, low supplier risk, and maximum value for Rabobank. PVM's activities can be divided into five underlying processes: Strategic category management, Sourcing & contracting, Supply risk management, Supplier and contract life cycle management, and Requisition-to-Pay. Recently, PVM has been asked to expand its service portfolio with three additional services: "Intragroup Arrangements" (internal deliveries between Rabobank entities) and "Non Supplier Business Partners" (relationships of the bank to whom we pay money, but who are not suppliers) and the Report Ownership of the DORA register of information.

The application PRISMA (based on Ariba upstream) is the global single source for the data of suppliers, supplier contracts and supply risks. PRISMA is a high visibility application, because the heavy regulations in the banking sector require extensive and qualitative data on supply risk. The user community spans from buyers, vendor managers and risk experts, to senior management in their role as contract- and risk owner.

• Lead S2P initiatives

• Identify and capture business needs and drive process and system solutions.  

• Achieve alignment and buy-in on related solutions

• Be the representative from the Procurement organization towards the IT organization

• Deliver functional design for assigned user stories

• Perform feasibility studies on new requirements

• Drive continuous improvement by best practice sharing / learning  

• Clarify and communicate the impact of change 

• Actively interact with other domain experts to share knowledge

• Support system implementation projects and ensure processes are implemented as designed.

• Professional Bachelor/Master level knowledge

• Extensive working experience with and deep knowledge of global procurement processes & systems (Source-to-Pay). 

• This role requires experience in both procurement process and functional design; candidates with a clear IT profile will not match

• Solid experience with Ariba Source to Contract, Supplier Management and Risk modules

• Good understanding of Ariba buying

• Preferably experience in a Procurement role

• Proven execution power, get things done together, in time and with right quality. 

• Strong communicator, fluent in English and preferably in Dutch

• Strong stakeholder management and project management skills

• Knowledge of procurement in financial services industry is a pre

• You are highly analytical, know how to quickly get to the heart of an issue, and you can express yourself explicitly.

• You know what it is like to operate in a complex stakeholder landscape.

Not quite meeting all the requirements? We still encourage you to apply
If you recognize yourself in this role but do not yet fully meet all the qualifications or have less experience, we would still love to hear from you. In such cases, there is a possibility that the position may initially be classified at scale 9, with opportunities for growth and development.

We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at Procurement & Vendor management. 

"At Procurement & Vendor management we orchestrate a valuable supply chain 

for tomorrow's bank". 

Jacintha van den Hoek, Chief Procurement Officer 

Working together is the way we work as one self-assured, achievement-oriented, passionate and entrepreneurial team at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,5000,000 customers. Together with our customers, vendors, third parties, members and other business partners we stand side by side to create a sustainable world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business. 

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