This role is a part of the Global cost control and purchase to pay process (P2P) function supporting Hapag Lloyd’s Middle East region. As a process lead, you will play a key role in maintaining the master vendor data, work order creation, and ensuring standardization and compliance in the P2P lifecycle. You will ensure smooth onboarding of vendors, their validation and due diligence, risk checks, work order creation and approval process through a team of 8-10 reportees working with you. Your role is key to carrying out the initial stages of the P2P process which will eventually ensure the smooth operational execution of work, invoice processing, dispute resolution and finally payment processing. Additionally, you will play a key role in maintaining the single source of truth of vendor data and ensuring visibility of cost in advance to improve the transparency and speedy decision making.
Note: This role is a mix of individual contributor and managerial activities. You are expected to spend ~50% of the bandwidth on leading a team carrying out the master date maintenance and work order creation process, while for the rest 50%, you are expected to handle some of the team responsibilities on your own.
