Indirect Procurement Systems

Gordon Food Service is hiring an Indirect Procurement Systems & Compliance Lead . Responsible for leading supplier enablement and indirect spend compliance by leveraging the Source-to-Pay (S2P) value chain. Coaches Indirect Procurement Analysts to successfully deploy and maintain S2P functionality. Drives Indirect Procurement’s efforts to optimize S2P processes and delivers a world-class experience for internal end users and suppliers via S2P applications. Owns, creates and maintains catalogs, contracted pricing terms, and purchase order strategies. Leads and drives excellence in broader procurement objectives and initiatives through strategic thinking, process improvements, and data analysis.

Responsibilities:

Identifies and executes strategies to optimize S2P functionality to drive enhanced compliance, efficiency, and automation.

Drives supplier compliance within the S2P solution and executes an escalation process for non-compliance. Defines, tracks and drives improvement of supplier enablement success metrics.

Owns supplier enablement activities and accountable for efficient supplier onboarding. Owns direct contact with suppliers and ensures follow through

Creates and owns S2P strategies and action plans related to supplier enablement, catalog development, contract management, data governance, and user adoption.

Creates and facilitates supplier and user resources and training opportunities to drive adoption, improve the user experience, and maximize the value of our end-to-end S2P solution.

Leads communication efforts related to supplier enablement and user adoption. Develops communication strategy and tactics to ensure engagement with key stakeholder groups including Warehouse, Transportation, Stores, and other large user teams throughout GFS business units. Escalates missed value/savings opportunities, engaging appropriate managers and leaders when needed in order to drive adoption.

Initiates change to deliver a world-class user experience of the S2P application by providing outstanding buying support. Engages with application users frequently to resolve buying issues and provide further education / enhanced knowledge of the application and its processes. Engages internal IT team and/or S2P team to help solve technical issues.

Accountable for collaboration with external partners (application teams, consulting partners, banking institutions) to drive success in supplier and internal user adoption campaigns. 

Owns process for ensuring suppliers are transacting in the S2P solution as expected. Delivers business continuity by ensuring suppliers are set up to transact with Gordon Food Service through S2P application; ensures the usage of preferred suppliers by filtering out supply options that aren’t a network fit.

Actively engages in user outreach, influencing and leading stakeholder groups throughout the company (including US, Canada, Stores, and Strategic Alliances) to ensure stakeholder’s consistent usage of preferred suppliers. 

Responsible for optimizing the effective use of the upstream sourcing module of our S2P solution

Ideal candidate will have:

Self- managed; must be open minded, have integrity, initiative, value consciousness, deadline focused and strong motivation toward company, team and individual results.

Technology - advanced Excel knowledge (ie. pivot tables, vlook-ups, macros, formula creation)

Must be detail oriented with a commitment to a high level of accuracy.

Personifies a helpful, eager, malleable, and diligent spirit to serve all team members.

Ability to communicate, collaborate, and learn from other departments to ensure continuity of work and project coordination. 

Demonstrates the ability to comprehend and improve business processes.

Must have excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, and good organizational and problem solving skills.

Must have the ability to multi-task, prioritize and be able to work independently and within a team environment.

Develops solutions to a variety of problems of large scope and complexity. Refers to policies and practices for guidance.

Experience:

Bachelor degree required Accounting/Finance, Supply Chain or related

Five years previous experience in any of supply chain, finance, or applicable equivalent with demonstrated ability to develop business acumen in previous role(s)

Adherence to Hybrid Work Policy:

Adherence to the company's hybrid work policy is an essential function of the Indirect Procurement Systems & Compliance Lead position. The policy is subject to change, and employees will be required to adhere to those changes as a condition of their continued employment.

Location:

1300 Gezon Pkwy, Wyoming MI 49509

Hybrid Schedule 3 days in office 2 days remote

Monday to Friday

8 am to 5 pm