COE Procurement Manager

Job description

Lead, develop, and optimize the STP systems. Collaborate with IT to support the development and optimization of key procurement technology applications. Lead the catalog enablement efforts across all spend categories with the goal of increasing the use of catalog to drive buying channel compliance and efficiencies. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. - Procurement Technology Management - Develop relationships with key stakeholders, system owners to understand how they use the systems to conduct daily transactional activities - Strategize and lead optimization projects to improve the efficiency and value that procurement technology solutions/systems can provide to the organization and Kroger - Create standard procedures to optimize technology and resolve issues for procurement systems - Manage systems and projects to achieve sourcing goals in accordance with Kroger’s policies and practices - Engage IT resources for enhancement or developmental requests - Maintain deep technical knowledge of the systems and impact on the overall IT landscape - Define and implement a roadmap to meet the organization’s system and data...