Procurement Team Leader

Job title: Procurement Team Leader

About the Role Hybrid Procurement Team Leader role focused on owning and elevating the procurement ecosystem, ensuring SAP Ariba stability, optimizing P2P processes, and enabling data-driven decision-making. You will lead a high-performing team, drive improvements, and collaborate with global stakeholders to deliver value and user-friendly solutions.

What You'll Do

• Own SAP Ariba across procurement activities: ensure stability, accuracy, and reliability. Act as System Guardian: monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, run health checks, and address potential disruptions before they impact the business.
• Lead System Change & Adoption: support tool implementation and optimization projects from functional and data perspectives; onboard new entities and drive effective tool adoption.
• Drive Innovation: propose, test, and deploy new functionalities that enhance user experience and process excellence.
• Collaborate Globally: work with tool administration, operational procurement, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment, consistency, and adoption.
• Champion Continuous Improvement: identify opportunities to improve procurement processes and tools, making them more intuitive and efficient.
• Stay Future-Ready: coordinate system maintenance and updates to keep the ecosystem current, stable, and optimized.
• Team Leader Responsibilities: manage team performance and workload; foster relationships; escalate unresolved issues; provide guidance and support; identify mentoring needs; oversee process documentation; manage KPIs; contribute to global standardization; follow all obligations per internal AS and AS GBS regulations; translate objectives into actionable targets and adapt plans as priorities change.

What We're Looking For

• Experience in finance, economics, procurement, IT, or a similar field (4–5 years)
• Team management and strong leadership
• Hands-on experience with SAP Ariba in an admin or consulting role
• Good knowledge of Purchase-to-Pay processes including PO/GR handling, and a solid understanding of MM processes
• Analytical mindset with ability to identify root causes and strong problem-solving skills
• Experience in project delivery, proposing process improvements, and communicating changes to stakeholders
• Strong presentation skills and ability to defend a thesis or advocate for a solution
• Fluent English
• Practical knowledge of MS Office, especially MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Positive “can-do” attitude and flexibility
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong task and time management skills including planning and organizational abilities
• Flexibility with working hours, including the possibility of covering a second shift once a week

Compensation & Benefits

• Employee discounts on products from our iconic brands
• Global collaboration with diverse, international teams across brands, functions, and markets
• Access to a global network of leading brands across Amer Sports
• Culture built on trust, support, and shared responsibility; progress and success as a team
• Purpose-driven environment supporting healthier, more active lives
• Small teams with real impact where your ideas matter
• Excellence in how we work: quality, innovation, continuous improvement
• Ambitious career development through meaningful work and collaboration with experienced colleagues
• Modern technologies and ways of working; evolving digital solutions
• Finance: work at the core of a global business shaping the future of finance across iconic brands