What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global IT Procurement Source to Pay Owner position at American Sugar Refining?
Florida Crystals is a leading domestic sugar producer and North America's first fully integrated cane sugar company, guiding our sugar from farm to table. We are America's first and only producer of certified organic sugar, grown and harvested in the United States. Our renewable energy facility is the largest of its kind in North America and provides clean energy that powers our sugar operations, which helps us reduce our use of fossil fuels. Florida Crystals also sustainably farms rice, sweet corn and other vegetables in rotation with our sugarcane. Our rice mill is the only rice mill in Florida.
OVERVIEW
The Global IT Procurement Source to Pay Solution Owner ("Solution Owner") reports to Global Supply Chain and Planning Lead, and partners with the FCC / ASR Procurement business functions to translate functional strategy and requirements into process and IT solutions. This role requires proficiency in Source to Pay business processes, consumer product goods industry knowledge and SAP and non-SAP technical platforms, including Ariba.
The Solution Owner brings deep process and system knowledge (especially in the areas of SAP Source to Pay and Ariba) and is responsible together with the Enterprise Architect for the design and roadmap of all Source to Pay IT projects through the company and its partners.
The primary function of the Solution Owner is to work with the procurement functions globally to understand the vision and define capabilities required to enable the vision of the function. In addition, the solution owner will partner with the Enterprise Architecture team to optimize current processes, drive business outcomes from technology investments and provide an outside-in perspective from the industry
The Solution Owner must be self-driven, with strong business process and systems knowledge, analytical skills, excellent communication, and good customer presence.
DETAILED ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Engage and influence functional stakeholders on process and technology decisions aligned to global strategies, processes and solutions
- Deliver business value through their expertise and help drive growth in business
- Partner with the IT Supply Chain Enterprise Architect to develop the IT strategic roadmap for their process area
- Ensure transparency of the value and total cost of ownership (TCO) of all solutions in their process area
- Build robust IT solutions that are sustainable and drive application rationalization
- Together with the Supply Chain and Tower Lead, ensure the delivery of program / projects is in line with business objectives at lowest possible costs, and agreed timeline and realizing business benefits while delivering quality solutions
- Partner with IT Enterprise Architecture to ensure that the solutions identified are compliant with EA strategy and standards
- Analyze high-level requirements and conduct cost / benefit analysis to determine proper architecture solution
- Implement best practices to continually improve performance of solutions to achieve the long-term strategic goals
- Seek and obtain a deep understanding of the solutions supporting the Source to Pay processes
- Collaborate with relevant partners and stakeholders to ensure project and operational performance, including prioritization of enhancements
- Lead the delivery of Source to Pay projects and solutions
- Partner with the business to develop idea management artifacts (project scope, charter, business case)
- Help the functions understand system impacts to process improvement and changes
- Work with external partners to implement new functionality according to functional requirements
- Complete and oversee SAP, Ariba and non-SAP technical and application changes for Source to Pay processes
- Actively participate in industry forums and understand how new industry trends can be leveraged in the Procurement functions
WORK EXPERIENCES
CULTURE / MOTIVATIONAL FIT
The candidate who will be a strong motivational / cultural fit should demonstrate a high degree of the following traits :
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
TRAVEL
LOCATION
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