At RELX, the Senior Manager of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) plays a pivotal role in leading global procurement and accounts payable operations. This role functions at a director-level capacity, driving strategic sourcing, process transformation, and AI-enabled automation across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will be a change agent with deep expertise in procurement, supplier management, and digital finance operations of accounts payable while ensuring alignment across diverse business units and geographies.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Procurement Leadership: Lead global sourcing initiatives across indirect categories, ensuring cost optimization and supplier performance.
AI-Driven Process Innovation: Champion the use of AI and machine learning to automate invoice processing, enhance spend analytics, and improve supplier risk profiling.
Technology Enablement: Oversee P2P platform enhancements (Oracle Fusion) integrating intelligent automation and predictive analytics.
Vendor Management: Manage strategic supplier relationships, supplier registration ensuring proper due diligence and compliance frameworks are put in place.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Finance, Legal, IT, and business units to help ensure that the end-to-end process streams would be supported and are working efficiently and effectively.
Governance & Compliance: Ensure adherence to RELX’s procurement policies, SOX controls, and ESG standards.
Performance Monitoring: Ensure strategic and operational metrics (e.g., cycle time, cost savings, compliance rates) are tracked, analyzed, and met consistently.
Monthly Governance: Lead monthly governance forums with key stakeholders to review performance, resolve escalations, and align on priorities.
Business Harmonization: Drive harmonization of P2P processes across RELX’s diverse business segments, ensuring consistency, scalability, and best practices.
Global Tax Awareness: Collaborate with tax teams to ensure P2P processes support accurate tax treatment, reporting, and compliance across jurisdictions.
Global Collaboration: Work effectively across cultures and time zones, fostering inclusive communication and alignment with regional teams.
Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring transparency, responsiveness, and alignment with business needs.
Team Development: Lead and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Key Competencies:
Driving Proactive Continuous Improvement
Agree and document SLAs for services performed by and received by the Philippine team.
Ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the site are clearly defined, achieved and measured regularly.
Ensure the provision of timely, accurate and complete reporting on performance to Finance and on shore process teams.
Develop an external network with other Finance Operations in the region gain benchmarking and best practices insights to measure and improve operations.
Stay updated with industry trends, regulations, and best practices in transactional finance.
People Management & Leadership
Manage a team of finance professionals, providing guidance, coaching, and performance feedback.
Role model a leadership style which is inclusive, proactive, respectful, and results driven.
Lead a large, diverse team to deliver a high-performing organization.
Measure and manage the workforce to cultivate a customer service focus and culture.
Ensure that the people are appropriately skilled, trained and developed.
Monitor and manage performance against objectives for all direct reports and ensure this
is done across the team.
Implementation and Operations
Identify, plan, and lead all aspects of the transition from existing processes/teams.
Ensure service delivery quality for in-scope processes during transition and through stabilization period and ultimately on moving to BAU.
Establish a well-performing operation which meets the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and quality standards.
Proactively manage potential risks to service delivery and performance, i.e. early identification of root causes for issues and taking corrective actions to remediate/solve.
Drive future productivity improvements to achieve efficiency and effectiveness targets year over year.
Technical Standards and Policies
Ensure effective application and compliance with Reed Elsevier (RE) standards and policies.
Ensure policies, processes and operating procedures are complied with in-line with standards.
Liaise with auditors as required.
Ensure all people maintain appropriate standards of technical and process competence.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree holder in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or related field (MBA preferred)
10+ years of experience in procurement or finance operations, with 5+ years in a leadership role
Expertise in P2P systems and AI-enabled tools (e.g., RPA, IDP, spend analytics platforms)
Strong stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills
Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop a high-performing team.
In-depth understanding of financial regulations, compliance requirements, and industry standards.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen eye for detail.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
💡 Preferred Attributes
Experience in a matrixed, multinational organization
Familiarity with RELX’s industry sectors (science, legal, risk, analytics, media)
Lean Six Sigma or process improvement certification
Passion for digital transformation and data-driven decision-making
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