Procurement Digitalisation Manager (m/f/d)
Job purpose:
The Manager Procurement Digitalisation enhances the efficiency, effectiveness, and strategic role of procurement as a business partner. This role supports the development, implementation, and optimization of digital procurement processes, ensuring seamless integration of SAP S/4HANA and SAP-adjacent tools.
Beyond system implementation, procurement digitalization leverages automation and AI-driven solutions to streamline operations, enhance decision-making, and proactively manage risks. By embedding AI into procurement workflows, this role drives smarter sourcing, process transparency, and compliance, ensuring a future-ready procurement function.
About the team:
Group Procurement sets guidelines, rules and policies for procurement at Bauer Media Group and provides respective services to all lines of business and business units of the group by negotiating contracts, running requests for quotations and providing operative purchasing services as well as supporting all major projects with procurement expertise. Group Procurement consists of teams in Germany, UK and Poland.
Your responsibilities
- Act as a key user for SAP S/4HANA implementation and ensure seamless integration with SAP-adjacent tools and digital solutions.
- Design and optimise global procurement processes, driving standardisation across locations.
- Work closely with the GPO P2P to support evaluation and implementation of change requests.
- Implement AI and automation technologies to streamline operations and enhance decision-making.
- Provide change management, training, and user support to ensure successful adoption of digital procurement tools.
- Ensure compliance with regulations and business policies, using digital tools to manage risks and enhance transparency.
- Define and execute the digital procurement strategy, aligning initiatives with business objectives and best practices.
Whar makes you stand out
- Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Business Informatics, or related field.
- Experience in procurement, purchasing, or digital transformation.
- Expertise in SAP S/4HANA, procurement platforms like Coupa, and digital tools.
- Strong background in project and change management.
- Leadership experience in cross-functional teams.
- Excellent English communication, data analytics, and MS Office skills.
- Knowledge of process design (BPMN); Agile/Scrum experience a plus.
- Reliable, analytical, and performance-driven with strong stakeholder management.
- Innovative, adaptable, and collaborative with strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
We want to inspire not only our customers, we also want to inspire our colleagues. How? By giving you the opportunity to take on responsibility and by offering you a long-term perspective.
You can also benefit from our attractive offers:
- Targeted and individual training for your professional and personal development
- A central location in Hamburg's city centre with good transport options (bus & train)
- Subsidy for Deutschlandticket ProfiTicket & bike leasing
- Effective health management (e.g. health week, free sports programmes & Wellhub)
- 30 days of holiday & frequent events for employees
- Company restaurant, free magazines & various discounts via corporate benefits
- A culture in which personal responsibility, teamwork and creativity are valued and you have room for creativity and for exciting and challenging tasks
If you are looking for an independent position and would like to enrich our existing team with fresh impulses, we look forward to receiving your complete application documents.
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.
Hamburg, HH, DE, 20077
