Purchasing Governance Lead

Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE) helps businesses of all sizes across Europe meet today's material handling challenges with a full range of Toyota counterbalanced forklift trucks, warehouse equipment, services and added value solutions, including service contracts, short term rental, used trucks and the Toyota t-site Fleet Management Solution. Active in more than 30 countries across Europe and with headquarters in Sweden, TMHE has a European office outside Brussels and factories in Ancenis (France), Bologna (Italy) and Mjölby (Sweden). With about 11 700 employees along with a network of independent distributors and dealers, TMHE is the European regional organization of Toyota Material Handling Europe Group (TMHG), which is part of Toyota industries Corporation (TICO) the global leader in material handling equipment.

The Market and Sales Companies (Msco's) & Corporate Purchasing Organization has been recently created in order to manage the purchasing governance for all of Toyota Material Handling Europe excluding the factories. As corporate function, we centrally coordinate the purchasing strategies of all our national sales companies. We generate profit by providing the right supplier base in terms of quality, delivery, cost, environment and social responsibility. We properly and promptly answer to the business needs in terms of supplier selection, supplier qualification and supplier contract management.

As Purchasing Governance Lead you will:

* Support local SAP implementations from Enablement phase to Go-Live
* Conduct performance data collection & reporting
* Process mapping for local companies and evaluation against Policies/Procedures; reporting of findings
* Ensure Central Policies/Procedures are implemented locally in SAP Purchasing processes
* Periodical (monthly) Purchasing performance and progress follow up on KPIs/Targets/Strategies defined
* Audit local companies on Policies/Procedures
* Highlight potential shortfalls in local processes towards Policies/Procedures
* Advise options to rectify identified local Policy violations and/or shortfalls

Your profile

* Experience in working with ERP, preferably SAP for Purchasing. ERP (preferably SAP) implementation experience is a plus
* Understanding Policies/Procedures/Processes
* Able to translate policies/procedures into real-life application inside ERP
* Good Analytical & Reporting skills
* Very good knowledge of English, spoken and written
* Knowledge of Excel, Word, Powerpoint
* Willing to travel (during SAP implementation for longer periods)
* Self-manage and plan tasks within the centrally set framework and timings

We offer a dynamic and empowering multicultural work environment in which competence and quality play an important role. Enhancing personal growth and a real opportunity to invest in your future through on the job development and training.

If you are interested in this career opportunity, please send your Curriculum Vitae and motivational letter in English no later than April 22 2022.