Boston Scientific Global Process Owner Vendor Master 

Costa Rica, Alajuela Province 

905857136

Hybrid Roles:

About the role:

The primary technologies include SAP ECC and S4/Hana, SAP Ariba, SuccessFactors, MDG (Master Data Governance), Sirion, VIM (Vendor Invoice Management), Tableau, Power BI.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Owning the Vendor Master process and in partnership with the GPO’s the end-to-end Indirect Source to Pay process. This includes: Master Data Governance; Supplier: On-boarding, Setup, Maintenance; Supply base decision; Strategy for suppliers who are both indirect and indirect; and Supplier Management: Scorecards, Risk Mgmt, Performance Mgmt
• Driving the Indirect StP end-to-end process strategic vision, roadmap, and design while fulfilling customer requirements
• Advocate to transform the Indirect StP process and technologies using benchmarks and best-in-class practices
• Driving process efficiency and effectiveness while aligning process & technology standards globally
• Aligning and influencing the organization to support the process
• Liaising with stakeholders to listen, understand, and influence; ensure they are involved and service level agreements are aligned
• Educating and sustaining the global operations team
• Ensure the end-to-end process is well understood, transparent, adhering to all polices and procedures
• Advise, promote and enforce governance pertaining to relevant master data
• Recommend and influence, and as needed lead/implement, change management strategies to achieve leadership sponsorship and customer adoption.
• Projects: Prioritize, decide/co-decide project team & governance, approve requirements, perform roles per the project plan which can include being the project lead to lead and deliver the project
• Process and Technical Improvements: Approve, prioritize, triage to assess strategy to deliver (e.g. just do it, project, etc)
• Promote a culture of end-to-end process excellence, service excellence and continuous value improvement

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, Masters Preferred
• 5+ years progressive global ownership and/or Vendor Master management experience with proven success in large multi-national company
• 5+ years using ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Vendor Master, and analytics technologies. Preferred: SAP/SAP Products, SAP Ariba, MDG, Tableau, Power BI
• Strategic thinking and the ability to set and manage a strategic agenda in a global company
• Strong leadership and the ability to gain organizational alignment in a global company
• Expertise in and experience delivering value propositions using continuous improvement and Lean methodologies
• Global, end-to-end process mindset and approach
• Knowledge of global service delivery operations
• Thought leadership in the Indirect Source to Contract Process and the End-to-End Indirect Source to Pay Process in a large multi-national company
• Proven experience with project management, product management, and system implementation methodologies.
• 5+ years leading projects or products or implementing systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Agile execution experience.
• Fluent in English.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.