Procurement Operations Manager
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will oversee Amsterdam and European procurement operations, stabilize req-to-pay processes, improve procurement data quality, embed AI and automation, create reporting and dashboards, manage stakeholders, and support supplier enablement across Coupa and related systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in operations, business, supply chain, finance, or a related field
- 3-7 years of experience in operations, with a focus on procurement, supply chain, finance, or consulting
- Experience building or improving processes across regions
- Hands-on experience building or deploying AI-powered agents, prompts, or automated solutions
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data integrity
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
- Proactive problem-solving ability
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced technical environment
- Experience with Coupa, Databricks, Claude Code, Cursor, N8N, Tableau, or PowerBI
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the global Req-to-Pay program
- Lead or co-lead process improvement and automation initiatives
- Embed AI into procurement workflows
- Build local AI prototypes and support global scaling
- Own operational oversight of the Amsterdam and European req-to-pay landscape
- Manage purchase orders, requisitions, approvals, invoice reconciliation, and exceptions
- Drive stakeholder adoption of new procurement processes
- Improve procurement data quality across Coupa and downstream systems
- Build spend reports, dashboards, and insights
- Support supplier onboarding, invoicing adoption, catalog enablement, and purchase-to-pay issue resolution
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus
- 25 paid vacation days in the first year, increasing to 30 from the second year
- Discounts on health insurance
- Fully paid first-class commuting expenses
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- In-house physio and chair massages
- Organized sports and leisure activities
- Friday afternoon drinks
- Relocation packages
- Visa sponsorship
