Total 5 lead buyer job vacancies in Customer Service category in The Philippines

We are seeking a highly motivated Order to Cash Service Delivery Lead to manage and drive operations across the EU region. This role will be based in our Shared Service Centre in Manila, Philippines.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to lead a dynamic team and contribute to the strategic growth of our shared service operations in the EU markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team responsible for managing billing processes across the EU markets.
• Monitor and ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and OKRs are consistently met, both for internal teams and outsourced providers (where applicable).
• Champion operational excellence through standardization and automation initiatives, enhancing customer satisfaction.
• Oversee the onboarding and integration of new markets or processes into the Shared Service Centre.
• Drive functional governance, including SLA/KPI performance tracking, issue resolution, and project prioritization.
• Provide stakeholders with timely reports and analyses to facilitate strategic decision-making.

Additional Responsibilities:

Reporting to the EU Order to Cash Regional Process Owner (RPO), this position will work closely with commercial teams, support centers, and in-country teams. The Service Delivery Lead will be responsible for ensuring the efficient execution, monitoring, and reporting of billing processes across the EU region. A key focus will be identifying operational improvements and collaborating with the Transformation and IT teams to implement automation initiatives.

Core Deliverables:

• Ensure vendors and restaurants are paid accurately and on time, in line with SLAs or contractual terms.
• Maintain effective communication and coordination with all relevant stakeholders.
• Provide monthly reporting and insights to support in-country teams.
• Build and manage a high-performing service delivery team.
• Research, track, and resolve billing issues promptly.
• Ensure invoice accuracy by verifying master data and reviewing revenue recognition journals that impact regional financials and payments (if applicable).
• Continuously improve billing processes, ensuring SLAs are met, and escalate issues for timely prioritization.
• Manage the governance process with stakeholders through regular business reviews (weekly, monthly, quarterly).
• Support the onboarding of new countries into the regional office.
• Other duties as assigned by the RPO

Key Responsibilities:

• Enhances service levels and ensures the team meets quality, volume, and timeliness objectives (SLAs/KPIs).
• Drives operational excellence through adherence to business needs, budgets, and best practices.
• Leads initiatives such as UAT approvals, efficiency projects, and the closure of GRC/Internal Audit Action Plans, significantly impacting customer, operational, and project outcomes.
• Oversee daily R2R operations, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and timely delivery.
• Adapt strategies to address operational and resource challenges, and ensure the accuracy of R2R Taxonomy, process models, and SOPs.
• Lead and guide teams in resolving complex challenges, maintaining high standards of accuracy and compliance.
• Collaborate with senior management to drive performance improvements and ensure adherence to corporate policies.
• Manage and prioritize multiple delivery teams, mentor employees, and lead high-risk projects.
• Conduct Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews (MBRs/QBRs), providing strategic insights and driving cross-functional collaboration.

Knowledge & Expertise:

• Expertise in fostering a shared service mindset, optimizing operations through centralized processes, and collaborative efficiency
• Deep understanding of R2R procedures and practices, with a basic knowledge of O2C and P2P processes.
• Expertise in managing operations across multiple markets, with the ability to improve efficiency through collaboration with Finance, Commercial, and Product/Tech teams.
• Familiarity with business directives and billing strategies to enhance operational efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Skills:

• Formal supervisory experience, managing priorities and deadlines for multi-cultural teams.
• Mentoring and supporting employees to advance their careers.
• Leading projects with significant risk and resource needs, and overseeing complex business reviews.
• Use judgment to resolve short-term issues and coach others on problem-solving techniques.
• Address complex problems with informed decision-making, acting as a point of escalation for significant issues.
• Employ tact and diplomacy in addressing sensitive issues and exchanging information.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly, anticipate objections, and influence others effectively.
• Manage conflicts and foster collaboration to achieve shared objectives.

Responsibilities:

Primary

• Collaborate with process stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient process operations. 
• Own and manage the service delivery and performance with defined SLAs/KPIs.
• Ensuring the process complies with any regulations and internal controls/risk management measures
• Able to prepare detailed reporting, provide analysis or insights on various data/reports and present performance results to relevant stakeholders in governance forums (e.g. Monthly, Quarterly Business Review...etc).  

Others:

• Ensure maintenance of process documentation (i.e. Process models, Standard Operating Procedures) 
• Liaise with Central (Delivery Hero), Regional and GRC on managing relevant policies and procedures affecting AP processes
• Assess change requests, prepare decision making and foster implementation
• Actively help to solve systemic or complex issues and problems in an effective manner
• Support internal and external audits

We are looking for a highly-driven and motivated individual to take the role of the Team Lead, Global Service Desk. The role is a key leader in the Global Service Desk (GSD) team in the Enterprise Technology Services' (ETS) organisation. She/he will oversee the operations and performance of the company's global service desk function. This role requires a strong leader with exceptional communication, technical, and problem-solving skills to ensure that our IT service desk provides efficient and practical support to users across various locations and time zones.Responsibilities:

1. Service Desk Leadership:

• Develop and implement service desk policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Ensure adherence to ITIL and industry-standard service management principles.

1. Team Management:

• Lead and motivate a team of service desk analysts.
• Set performance goals, conduct regular performance evaluations, and provide coaching and feedback.

1. Incident and Request Management:

• Oversee and where necessary be hands-on in the handling of ETS incidents, service requests, and inquiries through effective ticketing systems.
• Ensure timely and accurate communication & resolution of incidents, adhering to defined service level agreements (SLAs).
• Monitor incident trends, identify root causes, and implement preventive measures.
• Where necessary redirect tickets to the local market IT Service Delivery (L2/ITSD) teams or the next level of support personnel (L3/Service Owners).

1. Customer Satisfaction:

• Continuously improve customer satisfaction levels by enhancing service delivery and customer communication.
• Gather and analyze feedback from users to identify areas for improvement.

1. Knowledge Management:

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive knowledge base for service desk staff and end-users.
• Promote knowledge-sharing and training initiatives to enhance the team's technical skills.

1. Reporting and Metrics:

• Generate and analyze service desk performance reports, highlighting key metrics and trends.
• Present reports to management and suggest continuous improvement initiatives.

1. Continuous Improvement:

• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and automation to optimize service delivery.
• Proactively identify opportunities to shift-left services (e.g. L1/GSD to self-service or L2/L3 to L1/GSD)
• Champion initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the service desk function.

1. Incident Escalation and Communication:

• Develop and maintain escalation procedures for critical incidents, ensuring timely communication with stakeholders and management.
• Facilitate clear and effective communication during major incidents.

Requirements:

• Proven minimum of 5 years of experience in managing global ITSD operations.
• Solid understanding of ITIL framework and service management best practices.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English to work effectively in a multicultural and diverse environment.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a customer-centric approach.
• Experience in managing a diverse and geographically distributed team.
• Knowledge of Windows & Mac operating systems, JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, Google Workspace and Slack are highly desirable
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• ITIL and other relevant certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

The Service Delivery Lead reports to the O2C Global Process Owner. The role will also work very closely with our, Commercial Team, Support Centre and relevant in-country teams. They required to have a strong focus on executing, monitoring and reporting on the effectiveness of the billing process across the region. In addition, identify improvement operations and work with our Transformation team and IT Teams to deliver key automation initiatives. Core deliverables are as below:

• Ensuring Vendors/Restaurants are paid correctly within the expected Service Level Agreement
• Establishing and maintaining effective communication and coordination with stakeholders
• Support in-country teams with relevant insights with monthly reporting
• Managing and building a delivery team, either in-house or outsourced
• Responsible for researching, tracking, and resolving billing issues on a timely basis
• Ensuring the accuracy of invoices with master data before approving payment
• Review / Approve any Revenue recognition journals impacting regional financial and payments (if applicable)
• Continuous improvement of the billing process
• Monitor and ensure SLAs are met, issues escalated and prioritised (for both our internal and outsourced providers)
• Manage the governance process with stakeholders  (i.e. weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews)
• Support onboarding of any new countries into the regional office
• Other duties as assigned