The APAC Territory Lead will be responsible for oversight of all GBS P2P activities in the region across procurement, P2P, travel and expense, vendor onboarding and third-party risk management compliance in partnership with GBS leadership based in the USA.

• Serve as the general point of contact for APAC Territory stakeholders
• Educate and train stakeholders on the GBS processes
• Guide stakeholders to the correct point of contact and process regarding any sourcing, procurement, travel and expense or invoicing or payment questions
• Manage, support, or execute any local or regional sourcing, procurement or payables activities including requirements gathering, bidding, vendor selection, price analysis, contracting, E2E purchase transactions and payables managing and monitoring
• Proactively makes recommendations to improve policies, processes, procedures training and communication content that are locally & globally managed
• Ensure work is redirected to US team as it relates to any global vendor activities/implementation
• Provides key local or regional information, analytics and insights that help the US teams improve support model
• Provide feedback to design and improve ongoing reporting, dashboards and metrics
• Collaborate with GBS to participate in any key meetings where a local presence is required
• Manage in Territory communications with P2P and OSP POCs to ensure issues or projects are well supported
• Manages, monitors and escalates any issues outside of SLA or not serviced in a timely manner in partnership with global support teams
• Field standard questions and issues that can be immediately answered, leveraging knowledge of key GBS processes
• Liaise with GBS counterparts to identify patterns and root causes that require improvement and support from the GBS US team

• Experience with International Shared Services / Financial Operations / Procurement
• Experience developing and / or presenting business cases
• Ability to influence and drive change while building solid relationships with your internal clients and external vendors
• Awareness of best practices regarding vendor sourcing and procurement
• Bachelor’s degree in business or other quantitative discipline
• 10+ years of sourcing /procurement / consulting / payment / accounting experience
• Must read, write and speak English language fluently
• Experience in project management and continuous improvement
• Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in managing global territories
• Solid financial and /or quantitative modeling / Coupa / Oracle / Excel experience