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At Cengage Group, our employees have a direct impact in helping students around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose - driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
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What you'll do here:
As a Procurement Operations Manager within the Procurement team, you will be a driver and contributor to cross-functional initiatives focused on improving internal workflows, services, and technologies.
There are three main areas of focus for a Procurement Operations Manager:
Gaining insight into existing areas of the business to help make connections with cross functional teams, technology applications, and Procurement.
ERP transformation and leading process innovations to completion utilizing standard practices for project framing and execution.
Performing robust analytics and dashboard creation on Procurement data.
Skills you'll need:
Bachelor Degree required; advanced degree preferred.
5-10 years' work experience working in a relevant field such as Technology delivery, program or project management, product development, or operations.
3-6 years' experience working in an -integrator- type role across business functions, building relationships and delivering more through influence than direct-report management.
Experience managing cross-functional projects, product development, or software development projects.
Proven ability to facilitate, actively listen, negotiate, and build consensus amongst competing parties, inspiring and empowering team members to provide input into the decision-making process while ultimately driving teams to decision.
Being capable and comfortable with changing priorities, multitasking, shifting perspective between macro- and micro-details, and experimenting to find new solutions with a willingness to fail fast.
Experience in interacting with senior level management in formal presentations and informal decision-driving discussions.
Self-motivated and tenacious in both the pursuit of continued process innovations that will transform Cengage's operations and continuous personal learning.
Ability to think logically, critically, and constructively about complex problems and propose solutions in a productive manner that address expressed needs.
Strong comfort with both Excel pivot tables and PowerPoint to draw conclusions objectively from extensive data and present findings in a clear story to non-technical audiences.
5-10 years' work experience working in a relevant field such as Technology delivery, program or project management, product development, or operations.
3-6 years' experience working in an -integrator- type role across business functions, building relationships and delivering more through influence than direct-report management.
Preferred But Not Required
Experience with Cengage Learning products, content development, processes, markets, and competitor products.
Experience with other project management tools and techniques (e.g. Gantt Charts, SmartSheet, JIRA, Confluence).
Cengage Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences. Or for any other reason. You may view Cengage's EEO/Affirmative Action Policy signed by CEO Michael Hansen (https://p.widencdn.net/pdvq6j/EEO_Policy_Statement_January_2017) and Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law notice (http://embed.widencdn.net/pdf/plus/cengage/ybs5gt19ik/eeopost-merged.pdf) by visiting their corresponding links.
Cengage Group is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations.ta@cengage.com or you may call us at +1 (617) 289-7917.
If you are a CO State, NY State, WA State, or Jersey City, NJ resident, please email jobpostinginquiries@cengage.com to receive compensation information for this role. Be sure to include this posting's job ID in the subject line of the email to help ensure a timely response.
About Cengage Group
Cengage Group, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
