About the team
Digital & Technology (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. The team is committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery by digitalizing and integrating processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture.
Role
The Procurement Platforms - IT Consultant is part of the IT organization and helps deliver releasable product increments for global Source to Pay process platform development and integration. The role supports Product Owners and customers in translating architecture and requirements into functional Procurement solutions and participates in technical product development.
Close collaboration with Product teams, partners, and Operating Companies is required to design, build, and oversee initiatives in the procurement area.
Responsibilities
- Work with the Product Owner and global stakeholders to understand, elicit, analyze, document, and communicate business, program, and platform or application requirements.
- Formulate architecture and design based on functional and non-functional requirements while balancing solution goals, constraints, and architectural standards.
- Work with teams and stakeholders to deliver incremental product enhancements within target timescales and quality standards.
- Understand business requirements and acceptance criteria in user stories, assess complexity, and translate them into implementable solutions and configurations.
- Design and develop solutions or oversee internal and external developers to ensure technical quality and HEINEKEN standards.
- Demonstrate product features during sprint reviews.
- Self-organize with other team members; work is planned and executed by the team without a separate management layer.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of IT experience with a similar scope of responsibilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience delivering large-scale Procurement solutions and tools.
- Experience integrating different technologies.
- Senior-level expertise in a Procurement platform such as Ivalua, Coupa, Zycus, or Ariba.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technology solutions.
- Experience working in a similar IT role and in multicultural environments with internal and vendor resources.
- Ability to guide junior team members and drive development activities.
The role allows application of 50% copyright tax-deductible costs for up to 80% of tasks.