Digital Transformation Lead, Procurement Stream (ERP, Business Services) for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Work Life Group is supporting a multinational defence headquarters in Brussels to lead the procurement stream of a major business services transformation. The role requires deep procurement experience and a proven ability to harmonise processes across many entities.

You will manage dependencies with ERP, cloud migration, data, finance, and HR initiatives, prepare options analyses for senior decisions, and maintain risk registers and documentation. Excellent English is essential.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years in digital transformation of business services with deep procurement experience.
• Track record leading procurement transformation and ERP programmes in large international organisations.
• Hands-on procurement process design and harmonisation.
• Solid programme and project management in complex, multi-stakeholder settings.
• Ability to work with and influence senior executives, and excellent written English.
• Nice to have: PRINCE2 or PMP, TOGAF, COBIT or ITIL, cloud platforms, international or defence experience.

Responsibilities

• Leading the procurement stream of a wider business services transformation programme
• Running a procurement process harmonisation exercise across many entities
• Managing dependencies with ERP, cloud migration, data, finance and HR initiatives
• Preparing options analyses, briefings and recommendations for senior decisions
• Keeping risk and issue registers, plans and documentation in order
• Advising on ERP, cloud-based procurement solutions and leading market practice

Skills

Procurement transformation

ERP programmes

Procurement design

Programme management

Executive influencing

English proficiency

Job description

Bring dozens of organisations onto one way of buying, and make it stick.

A multinational defence headquarters in Brussels is modernising how its business services work acrossdozens of civil and military bodies, and procurement is one of the main streams. This role leads it.

What you would be doing

• Leading the procurement stream of a wider business services transformation programme
• Running a procurement process harmonisation exercise across many entities
• Managing dependencies with ERP, cloud migration, data, finance and HR initiatives
• Preparing options analyses, briefings and recommendations for senior decisions
• Keeping risk and issue registers, plans and documentation in order
• Advising on ERP, cloud-based procurement solutions and leading market practice

What you would bring

• At least 8 years in digital transformation of business services, with deep procurement experience
• A track record leading procurement transformation and ERP programmes in large international organisations
• Hands-on procurement process design and harmonisation
• Solid programme and project management in complex, multi-stakeholder settings
• The presence to work with and influence senior executives, and excellent written English
• A plus: PRINCE2 or PMP, TOGAF, COBIT or ITIL, cloud platforms, international or defence experience

Why this one is worth a look

You get to shape how a large international organisation buys what it needs.