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GEP Worldwide

Team Lead - Procurement Operations

GEP Worldwide, Austin, TX


Company Overview

GEP is a diverse, creative team of people passionate about procurement. We invest ourselves entirely in our client's success, creating strong collaborative relationships that deliver extraordinary value year after year. Our clients include market global leaders with far-flung international operations, Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, leading government and public institutions.

We deliver practical, effective services and software that enable procurement leaders to maximise their impact on business operations, strategy and financial performance. That's just some of the things that we do in our quest to build a beautiful company, enjoy the journey and make a difference. GEP is a place where individuality is prized, and talent respected. We're focused on what is real and effective. GEP is where good ideas and great people are recognized, results matter, and ability and hard work drive achievements. We're a learning organization, actively looking for people to help shape, grow and continually improve us.

Are you one of us?

GEP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to hiring and valuing a global diverse work team.

For more information please visit us on GEP.com or check us out on LinkedIn.com.

What you will do

As a Team Lead - Procurement operations, you will be managing accounts payable cycle to drive process efficiencies for our clients.
  • Understand the full S2P (Accounts Payable) cycle to quickly identify the source of bottlenecks, problems, and drive issues to resolution
  • Manage and own operation performance - SLA, quality compliance and utilization
  • Responsible for goal setting for performance period. Track performance to annual goals
  • Identifies and implements continuous improvement project to reduce cycle time and increase efficiency
  • Works in conjunction with the operations manager to 'market' services to the client
  • Coach/ mentor team members on client specific processes and ensures training material is up to date
  • Manages and owns team attrition and motivates team to exceed SLAs
  • SME for entire Purchase-to-Pay process
  • Supports on company capability development
  • Publish/monitor and review operational reporting
  • Support transition Req-2-Pay processes for new clients
  • Ensure process documents are updated and accurate. Maintain approved process document in approved SharePoint/share drive
  • Responsible for all internal requirements (HR activities, Billing activities) being completed on time

Responsible for goal setting for performance period. Track performance to annual goals

What you should bring

  • BA/BS degree in business, supply chain, procurement, finance, or management preferred
  • 4+ years of procure to pay experience desired
  • In depth knowledge of procurement management processes and best practices
  • In depth knowledge of purchase to pay processes
  • Extensive Order Processing / Invoice Processing Experience
  • Excellent communication and follow up skills
  • Client Management experience
  • People management experience (team of 5+ team members)
  • Should be able to independently manage escalations
  • Expert in P2P end user functionality

SLA monitoring and reporting