Senior Manager, Procurement Digital Solutions
Zagreb, Croatia, 10000
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Our Team, Your Impact
The Senior Manager, Procurement Digital Solutions is a hands-on digital solution owner responsible for the end-to-end selection, implementation and lifecycle management of procurement digital solutions across Teva’s Source-to-Contract (S2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Supplier Lifecycle & SRM, and intake/orchestration landscape.
The role translates business needs into scalable system capabilities and drives delivery from design and configuration through deployment, stabilization, adoption, and continuous improvement.
How You’ll Spend Your Day
1. Solution Ownership & Implementation Delivery
- Own end-to-end delivery for assigned procurement digital solutions, from requirements and solution design through build, testing, deployment, hypercare, and optimization.
- Lead detailed process design and fit-gap workshops with Procurement, IT, Finance, Legal, Quality, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders.
- Plan and manage project milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues to ensure predictable, on-time delivery.
- Coordinate cutover readiness including data migration, integrations readiness, training, communications, and support model setup.
- Ensure smooth transition into steady-state operations and continuous improvement cycles.
2. Requirements, Backlog & Change Governance
- Translate business needs into structured requirements, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Own and manage the solution backlog, prioritizing enhancements and fixes in line with business value and roadmap direction.
- Run a structured change request and release governance process, ensuring traceability, documentation, and audit readiness.
- Lead UAT planning and execution, coordinating defect resolution and formal business sign-off.
3. Data, Integrations & Compliance-by-Design
- Ensure high-quality, end-to-end data flows across procurement platforms (e.g. supplier, contract, pricing, transactional data).
- Execute implementations in line with the integrated procurement technology landscape defined by the Director.
- Ensure solutions remain aligned with ERP strategy (SAP ECC today and future S/4HANA implications) and broader procurement digital architecture.
- Partner closely with IT on integrations, security, and system performance using standardized and governed interfaces.
- Embed procurement policies, approvals, segregation of duties, and audit trails within digital workflows.
- Ensure information security, privacy, and regulatory requirements are met hroughout the solution lifecycle.
4. Vendor & Partner Management
- Manage day-to-day delivery with software vendors and implementation partners.
- Track vendor performance against delivery, quality, stability, and adoption KPIs.
- Drive issue resolution and corrective actions while ensuring alignment with Teva standards and roadmap direction.
5. Adoption, Enablement & Value Realization
- Drive stakeholder readiness, training materials, and user enablement to support adoption at scale.
- Monitor post go-live performance, adoption, and stability metrics.
- Identify and deliver continuous improvement opportunities based on user feedback, operational data, and business priorities.
Your Skills and Experience
- University degree in related domain
- 8-10+ years of experience in procurement digital solutions, product ownership, or implementation leadership.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end Source-to-Pay processes and procurement controls.
- Proven track record delivering multi-country or multi-region implementations.
- Experience working in ERP-integrated procurement environments (SAP or equivalent).
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to drive decisions and execution across functions.
- Fluent in English
- Hands-on execution leader with a strong ownership mindset.
- Able to translate strategy into delivery with structure, discipline, and pace.
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