Applications are invited for the role of Group SCM Business Process Management Specialist. This position is responsible for providing specialist support to stabilise, enhance, and scale supply chain governance and compliance capabilities across multiple markets. The role ensures policy alignment with global standards and supports assurance readiness in line with the Three Lines of Defence model. Key responsibilities include ownership of the SAP Signavio process architecture for supply chain management, completion of post-migration clean-up activities (e.g. legacy process tools), driving the documentation of critical sourcing processes and decision frameworks, and enabling consistent, audit-ready control visibility across markets.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Curating, maintaining and governing the group supply chain management process repository in SAP Signavio, including hierarchies, models, subprocesses, RACI, controls, risks, policies and work instructions
- Leading post migration clean-up activities from legacy process tools to SAP Signavio, including de-duplication, naming standards, metadata governance, version control, archiving and reference taxonomy alignment
- Configuring and continuously improving supply chain management governance dashboards, including key performance indicators, control coverage, approval status and document currency, while ensuring reporting automation where feasible
- Liaising with SAP Signavio support teams regarding technical issues, feature requests and roadmap items impacting supply chain management use cases
- Mapping supply chain management processes to global policies, minimum control standards and group frameworks, identifying gaps and defining remediation actions
- Embedding control objectives, control owners, execution frequency and evidence requirements within process models and control libraries
- Ensuring consistency of artefacts across the policy, process, control and evidence chain, including decision matrices for sourcing pathways and approval thresholds
- Driving targeted documentation sprints with market stakeholders to capture end-to-end sourcing processes, decision rights and local regulatory nuances
- Facilitating design workshops, approvals and sign-offs while maintaining a single source of truth within SAP Signavio
- Supporting change management by publishing updates, release notes, training packs and bite-sized enablement materials for First Line teams
- Enabling First Line teams with approved and current processes and embedded controls, ensuring practical guidance and evidence expectations are clearly defined
- Providing Second Line oversight through group-level dashboards, policy-to-control mapping and monthly compliance posture reporting
- Maintaining audit-ready documentation and full traceability between policy, process, control and evidence to support internal and external audits and reduce repeat findings
- Producing monthly consolidated reports covering documentation currency, control coverage, remediation progress and SAP Signavio adoption
- Tracking and reporting delivery against an agreed roadmap and key performance indicator set while proactively escalating risks, blockers and resource requirements
- Engaging regularly with Group Compliance, Supply Chain Management leadership and market heads
- Stabilising the supply chain management repository in SAP Signavio with one hundred percent of in-scope processes migrated, standardised, approved and version controlled
- Applying metadata governance across all in-scope processes, including owners, reviewers, renewal dates and control identifiers
- Documenting priority end-to-end sourcing processes and decision and approval matrices aligned at group level and adapted for market-specific requirements where necessary
- Establishing a policy-to-process-to-control mapping library with defined evidence types and a remediation log for identified gaps, including owners and due dates
- Delivering a live group supply chain management governance dashboard covering control coverage, overdue reviews, approval status and evidence completeness
- Producing a monthly executive and audit-ready reporting pack combining concise key performance indicators and supporting narrative
- Developing operating standards and a playbook covering modelling standards, governance workflows, review cycles, RACI and change control
- Preparing a comprehensive knowledge transfer and handover pack to support transition to a permanent role
- Maintaining repository currency with at least ninety-five percent of in-scope processes current and approved and zero critical duplicates
- Achieving control coverage with at least ninety percent mapped to applicable policies and evidence types defined for at least eighty-five percent of key controls
- Securing one hundred percent sign-off of agreed priority processes and decision matrices across all target markets
- Ensuring assurance readiness with no high-severity audit findings attributable to documentation gaps or missing control mapping during the engagement period
- Reducing cycle time to twenty business days or fewer from draft to final approval for priority artefacts
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Risk, Compliance, Business, or Information Systems (or equivalent)
- Relevant certifications such as Lean/Six Sigma, BPM or Compliance/Risk credentials
- At least 5 to 8+ years in SCM governance, process architecture, or risk/compliance roles within large, multi market organisations
- Hands on experience with SAP Signavio (or ARIS equivalent) including modelling, conventions, governance workflows, dashboarding
- Demonstrated delivery of policy to control mapping and audit ready documentation across diverse jurisdictions.
- Experience working in/with African markets and partner market constructs is highly advantageous