SAP Procurement & SCM
Job Summary
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Hiring Manager: Luis Leal
Internal Posting Date: 12/06/2026
Referral Bonus: 500.00 EUR
ProfessionalPermanentFull-timeHybrid
Our Corporate Functions teams make sure everything at GrĂ¼nenthal runs smoothly by bringing together people with a wide range of skills from experts in finance IT HR law and compliance through to business strategists and creative media minds. If youre a great collaborator and a strong communicator youll feel right at home here. Join our team and join forces with colleagues across our business to maximise our companys positive impact on patients and their families.
What the job looks like:
- Define and document the IT solution architecture for assigned projects ensuring compliance with the IT standards policies and principles.
- Monitor and report on the performance availability and quality of the IT products (services) including relevant business-facing KPIs (e.g. process efficiency user impact) using appropriate metrics and tools.
- Manage the service level agreements (SLAs) with the service providers and IT teams to align them with the business expectations and requirements and ensure transparent trade-offs between service quality cost and performance.
- Coordinate and facilitate the service transition change and release management processes ensuring that the IT services are delivered in a timely efficient and effective manner.
- Manage the service risks issues and escalations ensuring that they are resolved or mitigated in accordance with the agreed procedures and standards and act as the final escalation point for major service disruptions.
- Operationally manage the IT budgets in alignment with the Product Owner to deliver IT products (services) within budgetary constraints aligned with business requirements and identify cost optimization opportunities.
- Identify analyse and implement the service improvement opportunities balancing business value risk and cost efficiency using best practices and frameworks such as ITIL COBIT and Lean Six Sigma.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with the business experts service providers and IT teams fostering a culture of collaboration trust and customer satisfaction.
- Provide leadership across cross-functional teams and service providers driving alignment accountability and a strong customer-focused service culture.
- Drive service transparency through regular service reviews and stakeholder communication on performance risks and improvements.
What youll bring to the table:
- Bachelors degree in computer science information systems business administration or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT service management preferably in a large and complex organization with proven track record of delivering high-quality IT services.
- A solid understanding of the IT service lifecycle processes and best practices.
- A strong knowledge of the IT service industry trends and technologies.
- Strong expertise in SAP Procurement and Supply Chain domains including: SAP MM (PTP) SD (O2C) PUR. BP Master Data.
- Planning & Supply Chain: SAP IBP SCM Processes.
- Experience on Procurement Ecosystem: SAP ARIBA Jaegger ORO
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA transformations and system conversions.
- Exposure to SAP AI capabilities (e.g. Joule) and emerging digital innovations within the SAP ecosystem
- IT Certification & IT Standards (Expert)
- Governance (Expert)
- Continuous improvement (Advanced)
- Cost Management (Advanced)
- Performance Monitoring and Reporting (Advanced)
Luis Leal the Hiring Manager |
About Company
GrĂ¼nenthal is a global leader in pain management and related diseases. Our purpose is to change lives for the better – and innovation is our passion. We focus our activities on moving towards our vision of a world free of pain.