Job Title: Procurement Systems Implementation Consultant - Coupa P2P
Location: MA
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Contract Duration: Long Term Contract
Position Overview
We are seeking a skilled Procurement Systems Implementation Consultant with hands-on experience in Coupa and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) solutions to support a major procurement system implementation. The consultant will partner with implementation vendors, procurement, finance, legal, and technical teams to drive system configuration, data transition, testing, deployment, and post-go-live stabilization.
The ideal candidate will have experience delivering a P2P implementation or major module rollout, with a strong understanding of procurement processes, approval workflows, supplier management, and purchasing controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the systems integration team and business stakeholders to coordinate implementation activities, gather requirements, and support configuration workshops.
- Configure and optimize procurement processes, including approval routing, purchasing workflows, guided buying, catalogs, punch-out connections, and supplier onboarding.
- Coordinate the migration of supplier records, open purchasing commitments, and purchase orders from legacy systems into the new platform.
- Perform data quality checks, validation, and reconciliation to ensure accurate and complete migration.
- Develop and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans, test scenarios, and scripts; track defects and coordinate resolution with relevant teams.
- Support cutover planning, deployment readiness, and go-live activities to ensure a smooth transition to the new procurement solution.
- Conduct parallel-run validation and reconcile purchasing transactions to identify discrepancies and prevent duplicate or missed orders.
- Provide post-go-live hypercare, investigate system issues, and implement configuration updates and process improvements.
- Create and maintain functional documentation, configuration records, testing materials, and support procedures.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer to internal system administrators and business owners for ongoing system maintenance.
- Work closely with Finance, Legal, Procurement, and IT teams to resolve implementation challenges and ensure alignment with business requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on experience implementing or configuring Coupa P2P or a comparable procurement platform, such as SAP Ariba, Zip, or Oracle Procurement.
- Participation in at least one full implementation or major module deployment, with direct responsibility for configuration, testing, or implementation delivery.
- Strong knowledge of procurement workflows, approval matrices, guided buying, catalogs, punch-out integrations, and supplier onboarding.
- Understanding of purchase order processing, three-way matching, tolerance settings, and procurement compliance controls.
- Experience with supplier master data migration, data cleansing, validation, and transaction reconciliation.
- Demonstrated experience supporting UAT, cutover, go-live, troubleshooting, and post-implementation stabilization.
- Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work onsite in Cambridge, MA, five days per week throughout the contract.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Ironclad or other Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions.
- Previous experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or research-oriented organizations.
- Experience integrating procurement platforms with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, or Oracle.
- Knowledge of legacy procurement system transitions, decommissioning, and operational handover.
- Experience providing hypercare support and transitioning implemented solutions to internal support teams.
Interested?
If you have hands-on procurement technology implementation experience and enjoy working across business and technical teams to deliver successful system deployments, we encourage you to apply.