Senior Manager - Procure-to-Pay

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