Digital & Technology Team (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center We are committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery. That includes digitalizing and integrating our processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture. By joining us you will work in one of the most dynamic and innovative teams and have a direct impact on building the future of Heineken!

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The Procurement Platforms - IT Consultant is part of the IT organisation, and is one of the professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable increment of the product at the end of each sprint, responsible for Global Source to Pay process Platforms development and integration. Teams within D&T Procurement are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work. The resulting synergy optimizes the Team’s overall efficiency and effectiveness.

The Procurement Platforms - IT Consultant supports Product Owners and customers in translating architecture and requirements into functional Procurement solutions and participates in the technical development of the product. Close collaboration with Product teams, incl. partners and OpCo’s is required to design, build and oversight initiatives in the procurement area

Your responsibilities would include:

• working with the Product Owner and other key Global stakeholders to understand, elicit, analyse, document and communicate business, program and platform/application requirements
• formulating the architecture and design based on functional and non-functional requirements, balancing the goals and constraints on the solution, including overall architectural standards (Domain, Enterprise)
• working with teams and stakeholders to deliver incremental product enhancements within the target timescales and quality standards that minimize rework and aspire to a zero-defect culture
• understanding business requirements and acceptance criteria in the form of user stories, assessing the complexity of these and translating them into implementable solutions and configurations
• designing and developing solutions or keeping oversight on developers (internal and external) to ensure technical quality and overall HEINEKEN standards are met
• demonstrating product features during sprint reviews to stakeholders
• you will be self-organising with other team members. There is no separate management layer at Heineken, work is planned and executed by the team.

You are a good candidate if you have:

• at least 5 years experience in IT with a similar scope of responsibilities
• excellent communication skills (verbal and in writing); ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical people and identify and understand multiple stakeholders’ perspectives and “truths”
• experience in delivering large-scale Procurement solutions and tools
• experience in integrations between technologies
• expert knowledge (senior level) of a Procurement platform (eg. Ivalua, Coupa, Zycus, Ariba etc.)
• an open mind to understand and build on the views of others
• ability to work in teams and work dedicated to a team
• ability to understand Business requirements and translate these into technology solutions
• experience in a similar role in IT areas
• experience in working in a multi-cultural environment with a mixture of internal and vendor resources
• experience in guiding more junior team members and/ or driving development activities.

This role allows you to apply 50 % copyright tax-deductible costs for up to 80% of your tasks.

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