Technical Procurement BPO

Technical Procurement BPO

Country:
Portugal

City:
Lisbon

Department:
Corporate Functions

Job

Job Grade:

Internal Posting Date: 19/01/2026

Professional | Permanent | Full-time | Hybrid

Our Corporate Functions teams make sure everything at Grünenthal runs smoothly by bringing together people with a wide range of skills – from experts in finance, IT, HR, law and compliance through to business strategists and creative media minds. If you’re a great collaborator and a strong communicator, you’ll feel right at home here. Join our team and join forces with colleagues across our business to maximise our company’s positive impact on patients and their families.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Leveraging from a network of experts in Procurement and AP Processes, Project Management and Process Management steer a Road Map of strategic and tactical initiatives that have the goal to standardize, improve and automate main E2E P2P Processes;
• Ensure that process outcomes are in harmony with strategic goals of Grünenthal.

Operational Responsibilities:

• Ensure full alignment of Procurement and AP Processes with E2E Process Management methodology, practices and tools;
• Be responsible for the consistent global end-to-end Procure to Pay (P2P) process implementation and governance, which supports Procurement and AP targets and Grünenthal overall business objectives;
• Lead further optimization and harmonization projects for Procurement and AP processes, procedures and organization to optimize productivity and meet global policy requirements;
• Drive further automation of the Procurement and AP interface processes (e.g. approvals, catalogs, use of contracts, etc.);
• Drive analytics projects (e.g. process mining) to foster automation and manage the interface to other processes;
• Ensure training content and materials quality for Procurement and AP community;
• Drive and support the use of Catalogue Buying solutions;
• Participate and/or lead the projects that may be related to target operating model design, process design, process and technology maturity assessment, benchmarking.

• Completed professional education with degree in Management or Finance;
• Proven track record of leading international projects;
• Extensive know how of the Purchase-to-Pay process;
• Extensive knowledge of process improvement;
• Several years of SAP experience;
• Examinated Project Manager certification is a plus;
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office;
• Very high IT Affinity;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Team player;
• Willingness to travel;
• Quality and service-oriented;
• Highly motivated and flexible;
• Interdisciplinary projects skills;
• Excellent English language skills, additional European language skills beneficial – esp. German and/or Spanish;
• Change Agent;
• Ability to manage C level Stakeholders expectations;
• Understanding of Business Priorities and Strategy.

Ricardo Ribeiro , the Hiring Manager

Grünenthal is a global leader in pain management and related diseases. As a science-based, privately-owned pharmaceutical company, we have a long track record of bringing innovative treatments and state-of-the-art technologies to patients worldwide. Our purpose is to change lives for the better – and innovation is our passion. We are focussing all of our activities and efforts on working towards our vision of a world free of pain.

Grünenthal is headquartered in Aachen, Germany, and has affiliates in 28 countries across Europe, Latin America and the US. Our products are available in more than 100 countries. In 2024, Grünenthal employed around 4,300 people and achieved sales of € 1.8 billion.