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Supply Chain Excellence Manager

On-site in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nort·Full-time·Added today (last checked 13 Nov)

Barnes Group

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The role

Barnes Aerospace has an exciting and challenging career opportunity for a Supply Chain Excellence Manager. This individual will lead global procurement governance, compliance, analytics, systems administration, training, and process excellence, including Coupa Supplier Portal administration. If you are a self-motivated, effective, and collaborative professional seeking to put transformation and data-management talents to use in a growing environment, please submit your resume for further consideration.

Core Responsibilities

  • Develop, implement, and maintain global procurement policies, procedures, controls, delegated authority requirements, and governance standards.
  • Lead procurement compliance reviews, audit support, corrective-action plans, and continuous-improvement initiatives for procurement with Finance, Internal Audit, Legal, IT, and operating sites.
  • Establish procurement compliance scorecards and executive reporting for policy adherence, purchase-order compliance, approval workflow adherence, sourcing governance, savings validation, and supplier-risk controls.
  • Own the procurement governance calendar, including approval-matrix maintenance, policy refreshes, supplier governance reviews, and required business controls.
  • Coordinate supplier portal governance and data standards to ensure supplier records, certifications, risk information, and onboarding documentation are complete and current.
  • Monitor adoption and effectiveness of procurement processes and systems; prepare leadership recommendations to address compliance gaps, training needs, and systemic root causes.
  • Lead the development and maintenance of procurement dashboards, spend analytics, supplier-performance reporting, savings reporting, and enterprise procurement KPIs.
  • Standardize reporting methodologies, metric definitions, data ownership, and master-data governance across Barnes Aerospace.
  • Serve as the business owner and administrator for the Coupa Source-to-Pay platform and Supplier Portal, including supplier onboarding, user provisioning, role security, approval workflows, intake forms, reporting, and governance.
  • Partner with IT, Finance, and external providers to support Coupa enhancements, integrations, upgrades, data quality, issue resolution, and adoption of new digital capabilities.
  • Maintain procurement control documentation, including standard operating procedures, RACI models, approval matrices, and system-administration records.
  • Lead periodic data-governance reviews to reconcile procurement data across Coupa, ERP, reporting tools, and supplier master records.
  • Create and maintain training curricula for procurement policy, sourcing governance, Coupa Supplier Portal processes, system usage, and analytics standards.
  • Provide functional leadership for procurement transformation initiatives, ensuring requirements, controls, adoption plans, performance measures, and business outcomes are defined and sustained including SBLO and support M&A data & analytics..
  • Develop and deliver procurement training, standard operating procedures, user guides, onboarding, and change-management activities for procurement professionals and business stakeholders.
  • Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, and optimize procurement processes; lead cross-functional transformation initiatives and benchmark performance against industry practices.
  • Travel of 10-15% may be required.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in procurement, supply chain, compliance, analytics, procurement systems, finance controls, or related functions.
  • Demonstrated experience administering Coupa or a comparable Source-to-Pay platform; Coupa Supplier Portal administration, supplier enablement, workflows, and user security are required.
  • Demonstrated experience developing dashboards, analytics, KPIs, and executive reporting, with the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations.
  • Experience supporting governance, compliance, audit, internal-control, and risk-management programs.
  • Experience with Power BI, advanced Excel, ERP systems, procurement reporting tools, and data-quality / master-data governance.
  • Strong project-management, organizational, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional process improvement and change-management initiatives across global teams.
  • Strong written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Aerospace, manufacturing, or other highly regulated industry experience.
  • Experience with Coupa Supplier Risk, Sourcing, Contract Lifecycle Management, procure-to-pay, supplier performance reporting, and supplier onboarding.
  • Knowledge of procurement internal controls, delegated authority, supplier governance, AS9100, customer flow-downs, and audit requirements.
  • Lean, Six Sigma, ACE, APICS/CPIM, CPSM, CIPS, PMP, or equivalent professional certification.
  • Experience developing enterprise data models, analytics roadmaps, or digital transformation plans.

Education Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field required. MBA or advanced degree preferred.
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