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Manager of Cost & Procurement Tools (LSNA-PA/OH/IN/NC)
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At Jacobs, we don't settle - always looking beyond to raise the bar and deliver with excellence. We apply our expertise and knowledge as we look into the future with great optimism and focus. We don't settle until we give our best and know that we're making a difference. We're looking for a Manager of Cost & Procurement Tools for our Life Science North America Project Services team who is excited about working on projects that enable the heart of our clients' business. Join us and you'll have the chance to work on projects including state-of-the-art industrial and commercial facilities. Bring your curiosity, talent for multi-tasking and collaboration, and extreme organizational skills and we'll help you grow, pursue and fulfill what drives you - so we can make big impacts on the world, together.
- BS/BA in Engineering, Construction, Finance, or other related field required
- At least 10+ years of experience in project delivery and supporting supplemental AEC business functions
- At least 10-years direct experience in project delivery transformations and operational excellence initiatives
- Experience managing enterprise systems dedicated to cost and procurement functions
- Ability to effectively communicate with all relevant, cross-functional stakeholders and contribute to positive project outcomes, bridging the gap between project teams, discipline teams, business leadership and IT/digital operations
- Ability to operate effectively in an agile, fast-moving environment, rapidly adapting solutions as business needs and priorities evolve
- Ability to transform disparate written standards into a tool, workflow and data ecosystem map to give a full picture of the interactive working environment for cost and procurement tools
- Depth of understanding of tool ecosystems in order to recommend work process optimizations, using tool replacement, tool consolidation, and/or automations as appropriate to deliver maximum value
- Facilitate tool selection via robust user requirements documentation for quantitative and qualitative evaluation, leading to best fit solutions for teams
- Proven track record of tools / workflow optimization implementations including scoping, development, user testing, training and handover
- Know-how to support creation of standard documentation for defining business requirements, process roles and responsibilities, data governance, system click through guides
- Strong skills in lifecycle management of adopted tools, including access control and granting, license maintenance, configurations, upgrade deployments etc, including leading teams of doers to deliver such functionality for user groups
- Ability to lead data and root cause analysis to support identification and proposal of improvement areas
- Ability to measure value of work to prove track record of performance optimizations
- Proficiency with standard Microsoft suite of tools and managing team member tasks via Azure DevOps; experience with cost management and procurement systems preferred including but not limited to Oracle ERP, Oracle Unifier, IPCS, Building Connected, Smart Materials, Ariba Ideally, you'll also have:
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Willingness to adopt best practices and share ideas for improvement within the team
- Displayed ability to learn quickly and driven to broaden knowledge base
- Comfortable working within diverse teams and contributing across functions with guidance as needed
- Experience mentoring others and raising overall solution quality through standards and documentation for implementations
- Demonstrated experience acting as a hands-on technical lead or solution owner for complex work process optimization initiatives LifeSciences, #Bio/Pharma, #EPCMV, #globallifescience, #Construction LI-SH1 Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.