• Join the transformation of our Global Procurement function! • This is a high-impact, newly created role designed to scale Nielsen’s procurement operations globally. • As a Procurement Professional, you will be a key player in enhancing long-term profitability and supporting sustainable growth while effectively managing global risks. • You won't just be running reports; you will develop and execute sourcing plans for indirect spend, maintain strategic supplier relationships, and take end-to-end ownership of key contracts. • We need a skilled analyst who can navigate change and lead the assessment, selection, and negotiation of external service providers. • Strategic Alignment: Align Nielsen's enterprise strategy with category strategies to deliver best-in-class products and services at the lowest possible cost. • Sourcing Leadership: Lead strategic procurement activities, including the assessment, selection, and management of externally contracted services. • Contract Negotiation: Negotiate requirements and provisions (terms and conditions) to ensure full compliance with laws, regulations, and enterprise policies. • Business Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner to stakeholders, identifying critical business requirements and providing sourcing services that exceed expectations. • Process Improvement: Proactively identify opportunities for new business, process optimization, and system improvements to drive organizational efficiency. • Data-Driven Insights: Drive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reductions through deep analytics and leverage supplier capabilities to meet business needs.

• Manage Full-Cycle Recruitment: Lead and oversee the recruitment process ensuring the hiring of top talent through effective sourcing, screening, and selection methods. • Support both volume and strategic hiring efforts for key positions across multiple functions and levels for assigned region. • Collaborate with HR business partners, hiring managers, and senior leadership to understand hiring needs and develop effective recruitment strategies that align with business goals. • Supervise and mentor a team of recruiters, ensuring high performance, continuous development, and alignment with recruitment objectives. • Implement targeted sourcing strategies to build inclusive talent pipelines and leverage innovative recruitment tools and channels. • Continuously evaluate and suggest improvements to recruitment processes to enhance efficiency, candidate experience, and time-to-fill metrics. • Track, analyze, and report on recruitment metrics to measure the effectiveness of recruitment efforts, identify trends, and recommend improvements. • Ensure functional recruiting alignment and consistency across regions by collaborating with Talent Acquisition Managers and teams in other regions to share best practices, processes, and tools. • Oversee relationships with recruitment agencies, contractors, and other external vendors to support sourcing and hiring efforts as necessary. • Maintain knowledge of local, regional, and global employment laws and regulations, ensuring recruitment processes comply with relevant legal requirements and internal policies. • Act as a key advisor to senior leadership on recruitment trends, labor market conditions, and competitive insights, ensuring talent acquisition strategies are proactive and aligned with organizational needs.

• Overseeing a centralized or global talent sourcing function supporting enterprise hiring across multiple business units. • Reporting directly to the VP of Global Talent Acquisition and regularly collaborating with multiple stakeholders. • Leading recruiting for complex roles requiring advanced sourcing, competitive intelligence, and stakeholder alignment. • Developing targeted sourcing strategies using market insights, competitor mapping, and talent segmentation. • Conducting in-depth assessments and influencing hiring decisions through structured evaluation. • Improving TA processes through documentation, templates, and better stakeholder communication. • Preparing leadership-ready hiring reports, forecasts, and recommendations. • Supporting TA capability building through coaching and best-practice sharing.

• You will advise and support our clients in digitalizing their procurement processes and help implement them based on strategically central SAP technologies such as Next‑Gen SAP Ariba. • Together with your team, you will optimize the client's end‑to‑end procurement processes. • You will lead (sub)projects to transform existing systems into a new SAP Ariba environment. • In this role you will manage the entire project cycle: from Fit‑to‑Standard analysis to developing a roadmap and rolling out the new system. • As an innovation driver, you anticipate our clients' needs and actively contribute to the continuous development of our team's portfolio. • You apply AI‑assisted development tools in daily work to increase productivity, improve code quality, and produce high‑quality documentation that contributes to robust and maintainable solutions. • You will be involved in positioning our consulting offerings in the market, identifying opportunities and pursuing them with the support of your coach. • Work with IT and business colleagues to develop solutions for specific problems, sometimes leveraging existing solutions and systems. • Build professional relationships with clients, management and team members to ensure delivery of the proposed solutions.