Procurement Platforms - IT Consultant

Heineken; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

HEINEKEN Kraków is seeking an IT Consultant for Procurement Platforms within the Digital & Technology Team. You will support Product Owners and stakeholders to translate requirements into procurement solutions and lead technical development of the product.

The role requires senior IT experience, strong communication, and expertise in large-scale procurement platforms with cross-functional collaboration across internal and vendor resources.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years in IT with similar responsibilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to interface with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience delivering large-scale procurement solutions and tools.
• Experience integrating technologies across platforms.
• Senior knowledge of procurement platforms (Ivalua, Coupa, Zycus, Ariba, etc.).
• Ability to work in teams and guide junior members.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Owners and global stakeholders to elicit and document requirements.
• Translate architecture and requirements into functional procurement solutions.
• Partner with teams and vendors to deliver incremental product enhancements within timelines.
• Define acceptance criteria in the form of user stories and translate into technical solutions.
• Review and oversee development to ensure quality and HEINEKEN standards.

Skills

IT experience

Communication skills

Procurement solutions

Tech integrations

Procurement platforms

Team guidance

Multi-cultural collaboration

Tools

Ivalua

Coupa

Zycus

Ariba

Job description

Digital & Technology Team(D&T) is an integral division ofHEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. We are committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery. That includes digitalizing and integrating our processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture. By joining us you will work in one of the most dynamic and innovative teams and have a direct impact on building the future of Heineken!

Would you like to meet the Team, see our office and much more? Visit our website: Heineken ( heineken-dt.pl )

The Procurement Platforms - IT Consultant

is part of the IT organisation, and is one of the professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable increment of the product at the end of each sprint, responsible for Global Source to Pay process Platforms development and integration. Teams within D&T Procurement are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work. The resulting synergy optimizes the Team’s overall efficiency and effectiveness.

The Procurement Platforms - IT Consultant

supports Product Owners and customers in translating architecture and requirements into functional Procurement solutions and participates in the technical development of the product. Close collaboration with Product teams, incl. partners and OpCo’s is required to design, build and oversight initiatives in the procurement area.

Your responsibilities would include:

• working with the Product Owner and other key Global stakeholders to understand, elicit, analyse, document and communicate business, program and platform/application requirements
• formulatingthe architecture and design based on functional and non-functional requirements, balancing the goals and constraints on the solution, including overall architectural standards (Domain, Enterprise)
• working with teams and stakeholders to deliver incremental product enhancements within the target timescales and quality standards that minimize rework and aspire to a zero-defect culture
• understanding business requirements and acceptance criteria in the form of user stories, assessing the complexity of these and translating them into implementable solutions and configurations
• designingand developingsolutions or keeping oversight on developers (internal and external) to ensuretechnical quality and overall HEINEKEN standards are met
• demonstratingproduct features during sprint reviews to stakeholders
• you will beself-organising with other team members. There is no separate management layer at Heineken, work is planned and executed by the team.

You are a good candidate if you have:

• at least 5 years experience in IT with a similar scope of responsibilities
• excellent communication skills (verbal and in writing); ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical people and identify and understand multiple stakeholders’ perspectives and “truths”
• experience in delivering large-scale Procurement solutions and tools
• experience in integrations between technologies
• expert knowledge (senior level) of aProcurement platform (eg. Ivalua, Coupa, Zycus, Ariba etc.)
• an open mind to understand and build on the views of others
• ability to work in teams and work dedicated to a team
• ability to understand Business requirements and translate these into technology solutions
• experience in a similar rolein IT areas
• experience in working in a multi-cultural environment with a mixture of internal and vendor resources
• experience in guiding more junior team members and/ or driving development activities.

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