Procurement Systems Leader — Lean, Oracle & Analytics

Copeland; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Copeland is seeking a Procurement Systems Manager to lead the Process Excellence function within Procurement Excellence, driving continuous improvement across global procurement and planning systems. You will collaborate with Oracle IT and analytics teams to design KPIs and dashboards, and mentor a team in a hybrid work environment.

The role requires 7–10 years in continuous improvement or procurement, hands-on ERP experience, and strong leadership across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, engineering, or IT.
• 7–10 years of related work experience in continuous improvement, procurement, materials management, or IT functional analysis.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Prior work focused on driving system and process change.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with Oracle EBS or Oracle Cloud but will consider other ERP experience.
• Experience with lean transformation and rollout across multiple businesses with a global platform.
• Proven knowledge with developing business analytics, preferably with tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Sigma, or Domo; SQL or other programming experience is desirable.
• Prior experience leading projects and tracking goals and milestones.
• Experience building presentations and presenting to functional business leaders.
• Ability to engage with all levels of the organization, including training of peers as well as executives.
• Approachable leader always willing to train and mentor direct reports as well as others.
• Ability to travel 10-25% (mostly domestic travel)

Responsibilities

• Lead the Process Excellence function within the larger Procurement Excellence team.
• Apply Copeland Business System tools and methodologies to achieve continuous improvement.
• Facilitate impactful global improvements, specifically focused on the procurement function in alignment with strategic objectives and expectations.
• Manage the Process Excellence team while mentoring, training, and guiding the group to achieve business goals.
• Collaborate with the Oracle IT teams to enhance the Oracle platform to align with global policies.
• Connect with the analytics organization to develop standardized metrics and dashboards.
• Document newly rolled out processes as per global policies and train key business users.
• Become the SME on Oracle procurement and planning processes for the center-led procurement organization; build trust with the BU procurement and materials teams.
• Analyze business metrics, trends, and processes to develop improvement strategies.
• Design new analytics and KPIs focused on process improvement and system parameter accuracy; train users to adopt new dashboards and reports.
• Utilize a team-oriented structured problem-solving approach to analyze current conditions, diagnose problems, and identify improvement opportunities; demonstrate success with data.
• Uncover and investigate complicated problems using data and various systems; make recommendations to cross-functional teams to resolve any issues

Skills

Lean transformation

Procurement analytics

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, engineering, or IT field

Masters’ degree in business, supply chain, finance, or engineering (preferred)

Tools

Oracle EBS/Oracle Cloud

Power BI

Tableau

Sigma

Domo

SQL

Job description

Copeland is seeking a Procurement Systems Manager to lead the Process Excellence function within Procurement Excellence, driving continuous improvement across global procurement and planning systems. You will collaborate with Oracle IT and analytics teams to design KPIs and dashboards, and mentor a team in a hybrid work environment.

The role requires 7–10 years in continuous improvement or procurement, hands-on ERP experience, and strong leadership across multiple sites.