Overview
The Automation and Catalogue Specialist combines catalogue master data expertise with process transformation, intelligent automation and value realization, helping build a common, governed catalogue capability and delivering automation opportunities across the source-to-pay landscape.
What you'll do
- Own and improve article, service, supplier and commercial data that supports a consistent buying experience.
- Develop and maintain taxonomy, attributes, controlled vocabulary, standards, and cross-system mappings.
- Identify and assess process automation, AI and agentic AI opportunities using evidence from process performance, volumes, and pain points.
- Translate validated business needs into requirements, solution designs, test scenarios, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes with platform and technology teams.
- Build credible baselines and value cases, define benefit measures, track adoption and outcomes, and provide transparent reporting to support prioritization and investment decisions.
- Partner across category management, procurement operations, supply chain, suppliers, platform and technology teams to achieve sustainable adoption and resolve issues at source.
- Create, validate, enrich, publish, modify and retire catalogue records, including base item and variant relationships, descriptions, units of measure, pack sizes, validity periods, pricing and lifecycle status.
- Classify content against the agreed taxonomy and attribute model, resolving classification questions and exceptions with category and business stakeholders.
- Maintain traceable mappings between catalogue objects and identifiers used in ERP, purchasing and other connected systems across business units and entities.
- Coordinate supplier catalogue onboarding from submission guidance and validation through reconciliation, upload, publication and ongoing maintenance.
- Define and maintain master data terminology, standards, validation rules, attributes, permissible values, ownership, validity and change history.
- Apply and improve data-quality controls, monitor exceptions and recurring error patterns, coordinate remediation and report the health of catalogue data.
- Work with technology teams on catalogue integrations and data exchange, including API-based connectivity, requirements, test scenarios, and validation.
- Design practical approaches for complex data scenarios where current system capability is limited, balancing control, usability, and scalability.
- Identify automation, AI, intelligent automation, and agentic AI opportunities through process analysis, stakeholder discovery, and operational data.
- Simplify and standardize processes before automation, remove avoidable complexity, and help define the target operating approach.
- Translate approved opportunities into clear business requirements, user stories, solution concepts, controls, test cases, implementation plans, and acceptance criteria.
- Partner with AI platform product owners, technology teams and business users through process design, testing, deployment, change management and stabilization.
- Perform structured root-cause analysis on catalogue and automation issues, then implement preventive and scalable improvements.
- Establish pre-implementation baselines using relevant measures such as transaction volumes, handling effort, cycle time, cost, quality, compliance, exception rates and scalability.
- Identify and quantify value levers including productivity, cost avoidance, improved data quality, reduced rework, faster turnaround, increased automation coverage, improved user experience, and stronger process control.
- Develop evidence-based value cases setting out expected benefits, assumptions, dependencies, implementation costs, risks and measurement methods.
- Define benefit owners, KPIs, targets and measurement cadence with stakeholders before implementation, ensuring accountability for adoption and outcomes.
- Track realized benefits after go-live, compare results with the approved baseline and value case, identify benefit leakage, and coordinate corrective actions.
- Create concise dashboards and management insights covering delivery progress, adoption, operational performance, and realized value.
- Partner with Category Managers, Supply Chain, procurement operations, suppliers, platform colleagues and technology teams to align priorities and delivery outcomes.
- Support adoption through use cases, walkthroughs, training inputs, communications and solution conversations that make new capabilities practical for users.
- Manage dependencies, risks, decisions and issues across automation and catalogue initiatives, escalating clear options and recommendations.
- Promote best practice sharing and reusable solutions across functions, business units and locations.
Details
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