WELCOMING YOU TO THE TEAMOur Purchasing Operations team plays a key role in ensuring seamless operations within Nexans by managing and optimizing our digital purchasing platforms, SAP and Ariba. We support the company’s procurement processes across various business units, making sure all systems are aligned to meet both operational needs and strategic goals. As our team continues to grow, we are looking for a new member to take on this vital position, helping us shape the future of purchasing digitalization at Nexans.GETTING A FLYING STARTAs the Purchasing Digital and Platforms Manager, you will be the go-to expert for ERP-linked purchasing activities, ensuring the smooth running of SAP and Ariba platforms while driving new projects to align with our strategic purchasing roadmap. You will interface with IT, finance, and supply chain teams, ensuring that all purchasing-related data and systems are in sync and optimized for operational excellence. Your role will also involve leading platform support, ensuring the best user experience, and continually improving our digital tools.HOW YOU MAKE AN IMPACTYou lead SAP and Ariba configuration, ensuring smooth daily operations and proactive system improvements.You collaborate with IT, Finance, and Supply Chain to align purchasing activities across platforms, ensuring data consistency.You manage the integration of purchasing systems with other platforms, ensuring seamless data flow and process efficiency.You identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives for purchasing systems and processes.You manage and develop a team of specialists, ensuring high performance and technical expertise across our platforms.YOUR STARTING POINTS WHEN YOU JOINStrong expertise in SAP and Ariba, both technically and functionally, to manage and optimize platform usage.At least 10 years of experience in purchasing or IT, ideally in an industrial and global environment.Fluent in English, with strong communication and leadership skills to influence stakeholders across the business.Experience managing outsourced teams and leading projects in a cross-functional setting.A good understanding of purchasing, accounting, and supply chain issues related to platform management.OUR GROWTH CULTUREAt the individual level our growth-culture is built on trust and collaboration. We wish to welcome you as a valuable member of our team. To enable impact, we believe in freedom and autonomy at the individual level at same time as we encourage knowledge sharing, team-work mentality and can-do attitude amongst our team members.At Nexans, we recognise the differences that make each employee valuable and unique. The diversity of experiences, origins, personalities, gender and disability are considered key to our global ambition to lead the world in energy transition towards a sustainable planet. This is why we encourage diversity in our recruitment - Bring yours to Nexans, it is welcome!