ARIBA SUPPLIER ENABLEMENT ANALYST II

At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.

Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.

While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America

Position Overview / Primary Purpose

The Ariba Supplier Enablement Analyst is the primary liaison between McCormick, suppliers, and SAP Ariba (when SAP Ariba Services are leveraged).

• Approve lists of suppliers targeted for Ariba Network enablement

• Create, establish and execute process related to Ariba enablement

• Establish rules of cooperation between teams/departments

• Build enablement strategy, create Flight Plan

• Schedule future waves, create timelines

• Lead supplier communications

• Approve and create supplier communications and education materials to be shared with suppliers

• Coordinate/actively support system test and UAT

• Manage supplier relationships, reinforce supplier enablement program compliance with identified suppliers and internal stakeholders

• Escalation process for non-compliance

• Facilitate supplier training sessions (if any)

• Lead/participate in regular status meetings

• Build Ariba awareness within McC structure, promote the initiative internally with category managers, business relationship owners, and AP group

• Host knowledge sharing meetings

• Handle escalations related to area of operations

• Lead internal McC communication related to service in scope

• Manage and create content of Ariba intranet and internet webpages

• Identify improvement opportunities and translates these as specific project

• Analyze available reports to provide recommendations within the scope

Key Responsibilities

1. Daily – 60%

• Subject Matter Expert of SAP Ariba Enablement module for global point of contact

• Lead and ensure effective operations with Ariba global Supplier Enablement processes & systems

• Prepare plans & review target supplier list

• Resolve escalations & issues, monitor escalation procedure

• Implementation support, system testing, and project management

• Align stakeholders and suppliers with training opportunities, user guides, FAQs, etc

• Review opportunities with data enrichment, complex content validation etc.

• Change Management - build Ariba awareness within McC structure & targeted suppliers

2. Daily – 15%

• Prepare reports and analyses, both regular and ad-hoc

• Perform audits and control checks as assigned

3. Daily – 10%

• Lead & participate in projects

• Initiate & execute process improvement initiatives

• Backup for support of other Ariba S2P modules (CM, SLP, Catalogue etc)

4. As Needed – 10%

• Support chosen workflows & tools in Procurement & Accounting area

• Manage and create content for Ariba intranet and internet webpages

5. As Needed – 5%

• Other tasks as assigned by manager

Required Qualifications

Level of Education and Discipline-BSC

Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience in international work environment (including internship)

• Experience in Procurement or Accounting

• Knowledge of SAP (MM) system

• Knowledge of SAP Ariba system

• Previous participation in project teams (as project member or manager)

Interpersonal Skills

• Project Management skills

• Strong problem solving & analytical skills

• Ability to analyze issues with business documents (PO, invoice, credit memos, etc.)

• Ability to analyze and determine solutions to problems that arise with business processes

• Team player

• Flexible and able to adopt to changes

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work effectively with internal and external customers at different levels of organization

• Proven ability to operate in a dynamic, fast-paced, deadline driven organization

Other Skills & Competencies

• Solid proficiency of MS Excel, Power Point & Word

• Fluency in English language, both written and spoken

Preferred Qualifications

Level of Education and Discipline- MA, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Data Analytics

Other desired qualifications

Able to use/write VBA (macros) or Winshuttle experience or automation experience

Dimensions

This role is responsible for supporting Procurement & Accounts Payable on global level.

SE Analyst is responsible for delivering team results, but also provides advice to system users and process actors. Project based activities.

Provides process and tool expertise to process actors.

Decision making complexity: medium.

IT proficiency: medium, SME in Ariba.

Problem solving mindset: high (dealing with complex technical and process issues).

Information managed: confidential (contracts, spend information, supply base details).

Accountability not shared with other positions.

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical value