Prof Procurement Services

Overview

A Professional specialist role in Target's Procurement Services team, driving operational excellence for indirect (non-retail) goods and services sourcing, vendor payments and purchase order management.

What you'll do

• Plan and prioritize workload for timely and accurate delivery.
• Act as a subject matter expert: train and coach team members, ensure adherence to best practices and Standard Operating Procedures, and create and maintain knowledge articles and training documents.
• Drive continuous process improvement to achieve operational excellence.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for partners and collaborate across the organization on projects and process requirements; support cross-functional projects for process simplification and efficiency.
• Support process transitions through knowledge transfer, process documentation and team member training.
• Monitor progress and timely completion of Jira stories assigned to the team for the Purchasing Chat bot program; lead bot testing and building test scenarios; guide team members on data analysis and reporting of chat bot performance.
• Lead reporting activities and dashboard creation for operational and chat bot metrics.
• Partner with stakeholders to reconcile and resolve blocked and failed invoices for timely vendor payment; contribute to vendor onboarding and training by analyzing trends and identifying vendor training requirements.
• Support vendors by resolving their queries on invoice processing and payment issues.
• Coach and guide team members in purchase order creation and amendment; audit team output and share feedback to ensure accuracy.
• Ensure the team complies with accounting practices, audit procedures and purchasing policies.

What you'll need

• 5 to 7 years of procurement experience with a record of increased responsibility and/or complexity.
• Ability to think strategically with excellent quantitative skills.
• Inherent project management skills, including use of productivity tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Proficiency in creating dashboards and reports (Greenfield, DOMO, Excel).
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Passion for owning processes end to end by actively communicating with US partners.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders to solve problems.
• Advanced systems knowledge of SAP - Ariba, Microsoft Office and other systems.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.