Technology Procurement Consultant (SAP / Ariba / Zycoos)

Digital & Technology Team (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. We are committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery. That includes digitalizing and integrating our processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture. By joining us you will work in one of the most dynamic and innovative teams and have a direct impact on building the future of Heineken!

Would you like to meet the Team, see our office and much more? Visit our website: Heineken (heineken-dt.pl)

The Technology Procurement Consultant is part of the Procurement team and is one of the professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable increment of the product at the end of each sprint. Teams within D&T Procurement are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work. The resulting synergy optimizes the Team’s overall efficiency and effectiveness. 

Your responsibilities would include:

• working with the Product Owner and other key Global and other stakeholders to understand, elicit, analyse, document and communicate business, program and platform/application requirements
• formulating the architecture and design based on functional and non-functional requirements, balancing the goals and constraints on the solution, including overall architectural standards (Domain, Enterprise)
• working with teams and stakeholders to deliver incremental product enhancements within the target timescales and quality standards that minimize rework and aspire to a zero-defect culture
• understanding business requirements and acceptance criteria in the form of user stories, assessing the complexity of these and translating them into implementable solutions and configurations
• designing and developing solutions or keeping oversight on developers (internal and external) to ensure technical quality and overall HEINEKEN standards are met
• demonstrating product features during sprint reviews to stakeholders
• you will be self-organising with other team members. There is no separate management layer at Heineken, work is planned and executed by the team.

You are a good candidate if you have:

• at least 5 years experience in IT with a similar scope of responsibilities
• SAP Procurement certification
• excellent communication skills (verbal and in writing); ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical people and identify and understand multiple stakeholders’ perspectives and “truths”
• experience in delivering large-scale Procurement solutions and tools
• experience in integrations between technologies
• expert knowledge (senior level) of SAP and Procurement platforms
• have an open mind to understand and build on the views of others
• ability to work in teams and work dedicated to a team
• ability to understand Business requirements and translate these into technology solutions
• experience in a similar role in IT areas
• experience in working in a multi-cultural environment with a mixture of internal and vendor resources
• experience in guiding more junior team members and/ or driving development activities.