Global Process Specialist Indirect

Hero Group is a leading international food company with a strong heritage and a clear purpose: to delight consumers by conserving the goodness of nature.

Operating across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, Hero continuously invests in digital transformation and operational excellence to create efficient, scalable, and future-ready business processes.

Procurement plays a key role in this journey by ensuring transparency, compliance, efficiency, and value creation across our global organization.

Role Overview

As Global Process Specialist Indirect Procurement, you play a key role in shaping and optimizing Hero's global Source-to-Pay landscape.

You act as the bridge between Procurement, Shared Service Centers, Group IT, and business stakeholders to ensure standardized, efficient, and scalable procurement processes across the Hero Group.

You will drive process harmonization, support digital transformation initiatives, and serve as the subject matter expert for indirect procurement processes and systems.

Through close collaboration with global teams, you help deliver sustainable improvements that enhance both user experience and business performance.

• What You'll Achieve
• Global Process Governance
• Support the governance, standardization, and continuous improvement of indirect procurement processes across the Hero Group.
• Ensure alignment of global processes with business requirements, compliance standards, and procurement best practices.
• Process Optimization & Digitalization
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, transparency, and automation within Source-to-Pay processes.
• Drive process harmonization and support the implementation of new tools, functionalities, and system enhancements.
• Systems & Solutions Expertise
• Act as key process expert for SAP S/4HANA Procurement and related procurement solutions.
• Support business requirements gathering, solution design, testing activities, and system rollouts.
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Work closely with Procurement, Finance, Shared Service Centers, IT teams, and local key users across international markets.
• Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and knowledge sharing to ensure process adoption and user readiness.
• Continuous Improvement & Performance Management
• Monitor process performance and identify opportunities for optimization and innovation.
• Contribute to business cases, process documentation, and governance frameworks that enable long-term value creation.

Who You Are

• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Several years of experience in procurement, business process management, or related functions.
• Strong understanding of Source-to-Pay (S2P) and Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) processes.
• Hands-on experience working with SAP S/4HANA Procurement environments.
• Experience working in international and cross-functional organizations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process design skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with procurement orchestration, guided buying, or catalogue management solutions.
• Knowledge of Power BI, Power Platform, or related reporting and automation tools.
• Experience supporting global transformation or ERP implementation projects.
• Background in change management, process training, and user adoption initiatives.
• Additional language skills such as German or Spanish are considered an advantage.

What We Offer

• A permanent position within an international and purpose-driven organization.
• The opportunity to shape global procurement processes and digital transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to strategic cross-functional projects with global impact.
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment where your ideas matter.
• Flexible working arrangements and opportunities for personal and professional development.
• Our Culture: How We Grow Together

Create wow

We dare to do things differently, seek to always win with consumers and customers, and endeavor to be forever relevant and vital to our world.

It's about Curiosity, Innovation and Consumer/Customer Focus.

Everyone Hero

We work together in pursuit of our common mission and strategy, strengthening our local businesses by leveraging the power of the collective.

It's about Purpose, Performance and Teamwork.

Nourish others

We treat everyone with honesty, care and respect and provide our people, customers and consumers with what they need to thrive.

It's about Honesty, Empowerment, Respect and Diversity.

Take responsibility

We make good choices today to build a more sustainable business and environment fit for the needs of tomorrow. It's about Sustainability, Ownership, Heritage and Quality.