Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment.  We serve more than 50,000 customers worldwide and treat more than 11 million cubic meters of water every day.  We simply aim to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation across the world. 

At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We are an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

The Global Ariba Specialist will report into the Technology and Systems department and will be responsible for identifying and driving strategic initiatives across the Global Procurement Function. This will be done by leveraging industry best practices, analyzing leading and lagging process indicator metrics, and implementing best practices across Ariba and cross-functional ERP implementation, digitization, data integrity and change management, etc. This role will be responsible for instilling a mindset of systems simplification among stakeholders across the organization. In partnership with internal functional stakeholders and business partners, this role will streamline Digital Technologies, thereby optimizing resources, enabling achievement of Procurement strategic goals, and delivering sustainable value.

Education & Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering and or related degree.

• 8-12 years’ experience in Procurement/ Supply Chain function/ Process excellence/ Quality Management or equivalent role, with knowledge of Digital excellence and continuous improvement initiative.

• Holds thorough expertise in Org Wise ERP Deployment in Large Organizations.

• Subject Matter expert possessing Domain knowledge & Expertise on systems like S2C – Source to Contract, P2P – Procure to Pay and other deliverables in Procurement landscape.

• IT Project Management skillsets

• Working knowledge of Google, Nintex, Project Tools, etc.

• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a lean leader with demonstrated ability in organizational transformation'

  Preferred:

• Business Process Excellence and CI: Black Belt or Master Black Belt certification. 

• Must be knowledgeable in business process analysis and continuous improvement methodology understanding how to use data to drive decision making. 

• Capable of understanding which tools to use in typical business situation. Trained practitioner of lean, value stream mapping, process orchestration, process mining, change management, DMAIC, DFSS, Kaizen, etc.

Working Conditions (Specify % of travel involved if applicable, physical conditions, interaction with any hazardous material, work environment, etc.) ll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.