Procurement Support and Help Desk Specialist with English and French/Spanish/Italian/German

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Our client is a global organization in the Supply Management industry, headquartered in Europe. They provide comprehensive end-to-end procurement solutions to global clients across all industry sectors. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join the initial intake of around 100 staff in their newly-created Shared Service Centre (SSC) in Bucharest. Successful candidates will be instrumental in the initial setup of up the SSC, supported by an in-house cross-functional team from around the world. Once operational, the SSC will promote service delivery excellence and continuous improvement to achieve aggressive future growth targets. This is a significant opportunity for talented and ambitious individuals who want to be part of a dynamic team to create an important legacy by shaping the operating model and influencing the SSC’s future strategic direction, growth and success. Our client promotes a fresh and diverse brand and culture, offering successful candidates exciting opportunities in pivotal roles in a growing organization, with a competitive salary and benefits scheme.

Requirements:
Supporting the Head of Operational Procurement & Client Service Desk and Regional Operational Procurement & Client Service Desk Team Leads to challenge onshore functions to ensure optimal use of Operational Procurement & Client Service Desk systems and capabilities;
• Being the first level support for internal business partners, external procurement partners and third-party providers in line with agreed SLAs, OLAs, KPIs, including response and resolution times;
• Handling and offering maintenance and documentation of client requests, queries and resolution through their ticketing solution against a defined service catalogue;
• Maintaining knowledge management systems and client education material (e.g. ‘how to’ guides) to ensure ongoing efficiency and effectiveness of process and client satisfaction;
• Giving support for the day-to-day operational process management and support of relevant operational and P2P processes to ensure accurate and timely ordering and receipt of goods and services (e.g. supplier on-boarding, catalogue management / maintenance, other master data management / maintenance, help desk queries (voice and written), PR/PO processing and assistance etc.);
• Making optimised and compliant use of defined procurement processes, platforms and channels through continuous improvement (supported by in-house process excellence resources), end user education, P2P platform roll-out / expansion / enhancement (including data / gap analysis, testing, end user training and change management);
• Providing expert input across a range of P2P process and system issues, solutions and strategy as required, e.g. to support existing client service expansion / enhancement or new client integration / implementation;
• Ensuring functional KPIs, SLAs and other performance objectives are met.

• Willing to accept the challenge to support the setup of the Operational Procurement & Client Service Desk function from scratch and transition related activity to the SSC;
• Proven successful track record in a BPO;
• Good problem-solving skills with a strong customer service orientation;
• Gravitas and influencing skills to impact at all organisational levels;
• Ability to drive performance and continuous improvement;
• Excellent English and good French/Spanish/Italian/German skills. Additional foreign languages are an advantage;
• Good MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint);
• Availability to travel abroad.