Accounts Payable and Procurement Manager
Heidrick & Struggles

Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.®

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com.

Job Description:

Who We Are:

Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.®

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com.

The Role:

This position provides leadership and direction to the organization on procurement strategy and sourcing practices, management of the bid/negotiation/contract process, contract management and compliance and supplier development and management for key relationships. In addition, the role is responsible for oversight (working closely with the A/P Supervisor) of the Accounts Payable team including Travel, Corporate-Card and T&E; invoice and payment processing; problem resolution and processing of manual / exception payments; delivering performance that meets or exceeds defined service levels. This position coordinates with cross-functional leadership, global offices and third party suppliers on maximizing preferred pricing, cost saving and achievement of service level commitments.

Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day Procurement operations, including monitoring policy. Coordinate and/or manage RFP/RFQ, contract negotiation and Procurement and development activities.
• Develop and implement effective strategies and plans for sourcing, consolidation, change implementation and management of supplier relations.
• Oversee Accounts Payable and Travel teams ensuring delivery of high quality process to internal clients (client-facing teams, general ledger and corporate teams), partners and vendors.
• Identify procurement and accounts payable best practice gaps and lead the implementation of process and technology solutions.
• Deliver strategic partnership on financial and accounting operational matters across several functional areas, especially vendor master data management, invoice processing, Concur expense management program, and purchasing and travel-card programs.
• Team with cross-functional leadership, global offices and others to identify key sourcing and spend management opportunities to achieve preferred pricing and achieve cost saving objectives. Develop and monitor procurement and expenditure policy compliance and resolve exceptions with global offices.
• Direct all aspects of AmEx Procurement Card (P-Card) and Corporate Card programs.
• Designs, implements, and maintains Accounts Payable internal control environment in conjunction with SOX leadership

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required in related field
• Minimum seven years of relevant experience, ideally in an international environment
• Previous supervisory experience with proven experience managing teams and developing individuals.
• Customer orientation: Demonstrates knowledge and insights about internal and external customers and acts to fulfill their businesses needs and exceed their expectations
• External Awareness: Recognizes trends and events outside the organization, and focuses the organization's financial, operational and human capital on the issues that affect performance
• Innovative and technically competent with superb communication skills
• Independent thinker who does not hesitate to offer point of view in a collegial way
• Best practice perspective: Benchmarks to competitors and other industries to identify and apply best practices to inside advantage
• Analytical thinking: Demonstrates the ability to think deeply and quantitatively about business problems, breaking down problems and presenting solutions while evaluating the pros and cons of each option
• Organizational buy-in: Effectively builds commitment and excitement and wins support and resources for company initiatives at multiple levels both inside and outside the organization
• Relationship building: Forms networks of positive business relationships that enhance personal and business success
• Demonstrates comfort and prudence in using third-party advisors to assist on high risk matters. Seeks to adopt best practices to increase effectiveness and organization competitiveness

Heidrick & Struggles is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring qualified protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or citizenship status.

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