Sourcing & Purchasing Ariba Expert - SBA

John Clements Consultants, Inc.; Taguig; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

John Clements Consultants, Inc. seeks a Sourcing & Purchasing Ariba Expert to drive excellence in sourcing and purchasing through ARIBA tool maintenance, catalogs enablement, and global projects.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in economics, logistics, or supply chain and at least 5 years of experience in procurement, with strong analytical skills and ERP/Ariba proficiency. The position supports multinational operations and involves collaboration with IT and business units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in economics, logistics, or supply chain.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in sourcing, procurement, or process improvement.
• Experience with SAP Ariba and SAP ERP systems.
• Experience with E-catalogs implementation and maintenance.
• Experience in large-scale sourcing and multinational organizations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Ariba tool support and end user daily support.
• Issue resolutions connected with ARIBA and ERPs systems connections.
• Collaboration with IT team and PO output issues support.
• IT ticket creation via SNOW ticketing system.
• SAP Ariba regular or on demand trainings.
• Support IT team in testing part as Expert.
• Change Requests (CR) creation and follow up in collaboration with IT.
• E-catalogs enablement implementation, maintenance and support.
• Ariba generic e-mails box handling.
• Ariba Key Users community set up across regular meetings and Ariba Eva page maintenance.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

User training experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in economics

Bachelor's degree in logistics

Bachelor's degree in supply chain

Tools

SAP Ariba

Other procurement tools

Job description

About the role

Sourcing & Purchasing Ariba Expert is responsible for driving excellence in sourcing and purchasing processes by supporting Ariba tool maintenance including daily support, Catalogs enablement maintenance and support and optimizing/standardizing tools usage by participating in processes enhancement/global projects across the organization. Sourcing & Purchasing Ariba Expert collaborates with cross-functional teams, business units, and system owners to ensure efficient, compliant, and digitally enabled sourcing/procurement operations.

Key responsibilities

• Ariba tool support and end user/stakeholder daily support
• Issue resolutions connected with ARIBA and ERPs systems connections
• Collaboration with IT team and PO output issues support
• IT ticket creation via SNOW ticketing system
• SAP Ariba regular or on demand trainings
• Support IT team in testing part as Expert
• Change Requests (CR) creation and follow up in collaboration with IT
• E-catalogs enablement implementation, maintenance and support
• Ariba generic e-mails box handling
• Ariba Key Users community set up across regular meetings and Ariba Eva page maintenance

About you

• Bachelor's degree in economics, logistics, supply chain
• Minimum 5 years of experience in sourcing, procurement, purchasing operations, or process improvement
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP Ariba and SAP as must) and other procurement tools
• Track record of delivering process optimization, projects across regions or business units
• Experience in user training
• Experience in managing and optimizing sourcing tools and systems (e.g., SAP Ariba)
• Experience in E-catalogs implementation and maintenance
• Experience working in large-scale sourcing and purchasing operations or multinational organizations
• Knowledge of procurement systems, ERPs, sourcing tools, and process automation
• Analytical and problem-solving skills

Contract Duration: 12 months

Work Schedule: Mid shift