Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
The Impact of a Lead Solution Architect at Coupa:
This role at Coupa will specialize in Procure-to-Invoice (P2I) product deployments, guiding global enterprises in designing and adopting best-in-class purchasing and invoicing processes. The role involves defining procurement strategies, leading functional design aspects, and ensuring successful, on-time implementations while maximizing Suite Synergy opportunities. As a trusted advisor, you will mentor solution architects, provide industry best practices, and strengthen relationships with customers and partners. Additionally, you will contribute to improving implementation frameworks and best practices, with travel commitments of up to 30%.
What You'll Do:
- As a specialist in Procure-to-Invoice (P2I) product deployments, your main responsibilities will be in enabling customers in designing, configuring and adopting best-in-class purchasing and invoicing processes
- You will work with some of the largest companies in the world to guide them in defining the processes they use to manage their Procurement activities
- Help customers focus on their goals and drive the implementation solution architecture towards a successful, on-time implementation, taking into consideration Suite Synergy opportunities
- Oversee all functional design aspects of implementation by taking the lead in managing and mentoring workstream solution architects from both Coupa and partner teams, ensuring a successful delivery of the project scope
- Forge strong relationships with customers, partners, and colleagues
- Provide subject matter expertise and industry best practices to colleagues, partners and customers
- Create and/or improve implementation templates, best practices, training and presentations and be a champion for their adoption
- Manage customers where up to 30% of your time may include travel
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- 12+ years’ consulting experience in Procure-to-Invoice, either as part of a procurement organization or a consulting firm or software provider
- Candidates should have extremely strong client management skills and be able to guide customers through best practice driven design processes that lead towards a rapid, successful go live
- Previous senior consulting experience with Coupa or similar E-Procurement solutions (SAP Ariba, Basware, Ivalua, GEP) is highly desirable
- Experience with Expense Management and/or Spend Analytics is a plus
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience prototyping, demonstrating, designing, configuring, and delivering procurement systems is required
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
- Self-starter and quick learner, must be able to work autonomously, prioritize tasks, and adapt to changes in a fast paced and passionate environment
- Highly organized with the ability/experience to manage multiple simultaneous Enterprise projects
- May require some flexibility in working hours due to Americas’ time zones
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