Planet Pharma
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Remote Procurement Operations Analyst
770 Lindaro Street San Rafael, CA 94901 US
Posted: 04/11/2025
2025-04-11
2025-05-20
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Category: Professional Services
Job Number: 619022
Is job remote?: Yes
Country: United States
Job Description
Global Sourcing and Procurement
The Global Sourcing and Procurement (GSP) organization is accountable for driving and delivering Procurement value to support stakeholders’ and organizational strategic objectives. The GSP function delivers value to the company by leading transformation change and implementing industry leading category strategies that directly support the corporate strategy. The GSP organization leverages market intelligence, subject matter expertise and business insights in the procurement of good and services and management of the company's growing third party spend of $1B+. Through collaboration with our external suppliers and internal business partners, GSP helps bring innovative new medicines to patients.
The company is seeking a detail-oriented Procurement Operations Analyst (CW) to support the end-to-end processing of indirect SAP Ariba requisitions and purchase orders as part of the Global Sourcing & Procurement Operations team. This role supports the Global Sourcing & Procurement organization through oversight of our policies, processes, systems, data reporting, analysis, and insights as it relates to indirect procurement.
Role Scope:
The Procurement Operations Analyst (CW) is responsible for helping to manage the indirect procurement process and will act as the main point of contact for GSP, our Managed Services Provider (MSP), and business stakeholders to ensure purchase requisitions, change orders and receipts are executed timely and accurately. This position also includes the day-to-day administration of SAP Ariba Buying system including troubleshooting errors, identifying bottlenecks and recommending process improvements, creating reporting, and monitoring key metrics like cycle times.
This role is primarily responsible for:
This role will collaborate closely with Sourcing colleagues from within the Global Sourcing & Procurement organization as well as colleagues across the company.
Skills and Experience Requirements:
Required Collaborative Skills:
Qualifications:
Minimum Level of Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain Management or related field.
Area of Specialization: Experience in procurement and supply chain management in a global capacity, preferably within the pharmaceutical sector.
Travel Requirements
The Global Sourcing and Procurement (GSP) organization is accountable for driving and delivering Procurement value to support stakeholders’ and organizational strategic objectives. The GSP function delivers value to the company by leading transformation change and implementing industry leading category strategies that directly support the corporate strategy. The GSP organization leverages market intelligence, subject matter expertise and business insights in the procurement of good and services and management of the company's growing third party spend of $1B+. Through collaboration with our external suppliers and internal business partners, GSP helps bring innovative new medicines to patients.
The company is seeking a detail-oriented Procurement Operations Analyst (CW) to support the end-to-end processing of indirect SAP Ariba requisitions and purchase orders as part of the Global Sourcing & Procurement Operations team. This role supports the Global Sourcing & Procurement organization through oversight of our policies, processes, systems, data reporting, analysis, and insights as it relates to indirect procurement.
Role Scope:
The Procurement Operations Analyst (CW) is responsible for helping to manage the indirect procurement process and will act as the main point of contact for GSP, our Managed Services Provider (MSP), and business stakeholders to ensure purchase requisitions, change orders and receipts are executed timely and accurately. This position also includes the day-to-day administration of SAP Ariba Buying system including troubleshooting errors, identifying bottlenecks and recommending process improvements, creating reporting, and monitoring key metrics like cycle times.
This role is primarily responsible for:
- Managing the Requisition to Purchase order process in Ariba, including change orders, PO management, and receipting
- Act as the subject matter expert for the indirect procurement process within SAP Ariba, serving as the main point of contact within GSP and our MSP to ensure requests are efficiently progressing through the system and process
- Providing oversight and guidance to our Managed Services Provider who performs quality checks on requisitions and end user support throughout the indirect procurement process
- Coordinating with GSP, our MSP, and business stakeholders to provide guidance on process and policy, and resolution to issues
- Conduct end-user trainings to ensure employees understand the system, process, policies and responsibilities throughout the indirect procurement process
- Identifying and resolving discrepancies and issues in data or system errors
- Developing and improving indirect procurement workflows, identifying process improvements and areas to increase efficiency and throughput
- Generating reports to monitor volumes, cycle times, bottlenecks, and statuses
- Assisting in the development and implementation of SOPs, policies and training materials
- Liaising with Procurement, Supplier Operations, Accounts Payable, and other key teams to identify and resolve system and process related issues
- Ensuring compliance with internal procurement policies, as well as system requirements
This role will collaborate closely with Sourcing colleagues from within the Global Sourcing & Procurement organization as well as colleagues across the company.
Skills and Experience Requirements:
- Demonstrated strong experience with SAP Ariba Buying & Invoicing (S4 a plus), preferably in an operational and/or process management capacity
- Ability to understand and become an expert in our system configuration to maintain optimal enduser experience by assessing stakeholders needs and recommending improvements
- Experience working with IT to troubleshoot system issues, drive resolution, and fix at the source to prevent future problems
- Confident presentation skills to conduct enduser trainings
- Strong working knowledge of the source to pay process to ensure transactions are efficiently flowing both up and downstream of the requisition process
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications (Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), as well as PDF editing tools (e.g. Adobe Acrobat)
- Ability to create Ariba reports, analyze data, and proactively surface issues and recommendations
- Working knowledge of other procurement systems and is a plus (e.g. Coupa)
- Experience effectively working with and giving direction to managedservices teams
- Specific knowledge and expertise in indirect procurement systems and processes
- Resultsdriven mindset and meticulous attention to detail
- Excellent communicator and interpersonal skills with comfort working crossfunctionally to gather information and resolve conflicts
- Motivated, highenergy, curious, self-starter and strong business mindset
Required Collaborative Skills:
- Stakeholder Management: build credibility through strong relationships and solid track record of results, via a collaborative approach. Ability to develop a wide network of relationships across various functions and foster crossfunctional alignment; become the point of contact and expertise for all things related to procurement contracting operations
- Team Collaboration: align with peers to develop operational strategies; ensure alignment with overall GSP goals; closely partner with functional owners across the company
- Source to Pay mindset: demonstrate a deep and wide knowledge of the Source to Pay process, including supporting technology to optimize operations.
- Communication: skilled in written and verbal communication.
Qualifications:
Minimum Level of Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain Management or related field.
Area of Specialization: Experience in procurement and supply chain management in a global capacity, preferably within the pharmaceutical sector.
- Experience working in a matrix (global/regional) business environment
- Strong networking skills and a proven ability to build productive and collaborative relationships with stakeholders and business partners
- Strong analytical, written and verbal communications, and influencing skills
- Ability to work in high pressure environment, often under tight deadlines
Travel Requirements
- Limited travel may be required to offices.
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