Position Summary 

The Global Process Owner (GPO) for Procure to Pay is process leader accountable for the global end-to-end P2P process, from approved purchasing demand and supplier engagement through ordering, receipt, invoice processing, payment readiness, and performance management. The role converts business priorities into a harmonized process design, clear requirements, governance, controls, master-data expectations, adoption, and measurable process performance. 

Working with the Global Operations Program Director, Procurement & Facility GBO, Finance, IT, Quality, Global Process Leads, Local Responsibles, sites, and implementation partners, the GPO ensures that the global solution meets cross-functional business needs. The role promotes fit-to-standard design and limits local variants to justify legal, regulatory, quality, tax, or business-continuity requirements. 

Core Responsibilities 

Governance & Strategy 

• GPO owns detailed P-2-P process design, standards, documentation, controls, and ongoing process performance within the approved mandate. 

• Exercise decision authority for process requirements and design within agreed principles, resolve cross-functional trade-offs, and escalate or recommend for approval any material changes impacting resources, supplier governance, controls, benefits, scope, cost, timeline, compliance, or business continuity. 

Process Optimization & Value 

• Confirm the as-is baseline and define the future P2P process across purchasing demand, supplier and purchasing master data, requisitioning, approval, purchase ordering, receipt and service confirmation, invoice matching and exception handling, and payment handover. 

• Simplify, standardize, and automate transactional flows; reduce manual work, fragmented tools, rework, and unnecessary local variation while improving efficiency, control, transparency, compliance, and working-capital performance. 

Business Transformation & Adoption 

• Lead global fit-to-standard process design with business experts, IT, and the implementation partner. Translate business needs into scalable requirements and ensure alignment with Order to Cash, Requirement to Inventory, Plan to Produce, Quality, and Finance processes. 

• Mobilize Global Process Leads, Local Responsibles, and subject matter experts; drive stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness, cutover, stabilization, and adoption. Ensure local requirements are considered while maintaining global standards and escalate justified local variants to the GBO/Program Director for approval. 

Compliance, Data & Readiness 

• Define P2P process requirements with accountable functional, control, and data owners, ensuring aligned supplier, purchasing, material, role, and authorization data requirements, while respecting Finance ownership of financial controls and payment-related data. 

• Approve process designs, requirements, and UAT results against agreed criteria. Recommend Procurement readiness to the GBO, with final Procurement business readiness approved by the VP Global Procurement through formal go-live governance. 

Key Deliverables 

• Mobilization: Confirm P2P perimeter, stakeholders, decision mandate, governance, dependencies, and resource plan. 

• Plan and design: Approve the baseline, pain points, global design principles, process maps, roles, requirements, controls, data needs, integrations, and prioritized value opportunities. 

• Build and test: Provide empowered process experts, approve key business rules and design decisions, maintain process documentation, and sign off requirements and UAT based on agreed acceptance criteria. 

• Deploy: Approve P2P functional readiness, local-variation decisions, cutover, continuity, communications, training, and adoption activities. 

• Stabilize and realize: Own process performance, control effectiveness, issue resolution, KPI and benefit tracking, continuous improvement, and transition to permanent global process governance. 

Required Experience & Capabilities 

• Experience across the Procure to Pay value stream, with strong knowledge of procurement operations and interfaces to accounts payable, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, and site operations. 

• Demonstrated delivery of global process transformation, ERP implementation, or comparable cross-functional change. Experience with Infor M3, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Cloud, or another enterprise ERP is advantageous. 

• Experience designing global template processes, governance, controls, master data, KPIs, and operating models in a complex international organization. 

• Experience working with systems integrators and technical delivery teams, translating business requirements into scalable system capabilities and making decisions across business and IT. 

• Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment such as medical devices, life sciences, or pharmaceuticals is advantageous. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, Business, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience. 

Leadership Qualities 

Strong process leadership, judgment, communication, and stakeholder-management skills. Able to work across functional, geographic, and organizational boundaries; challenge local practices constructively; create clarity on global standards; and combine strategic thinking with hands-on transformation delivery. Comfortable working across time zones and travelling internationally during design, pilot, deployment, and stabilization. 

What We Offer 

Ambu offers an international, collaborative workplace where individual contributions matter. The role provides an opportunity to shape a critical global end-to-end process within a major transformation while benefiting from professional development, employee benefits, and challenging work supporting Ambu’s ambitious growth.