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Job Description: Ariba Guided Buying Specialist (Indirect Procurement)
3M Health Care is now Solventum
3M Healthcare underwent a corporate spin-off leading to the creation of a new company named Solventum .
At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.
We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.
Role Overview
The Ariba Guided Buying, Commerce Automation, and P2O Specialist is responsible for enabling, supporting, and continuously improving Solventum’s indirect procurement technology landscape across SAP Ariba Guided Buying, Commerce Automation, SAP Business Network, P2O, SAP S/4HANA, catalog management, and related integrations. This role combines functional process knowledge, system configuration, customization, supplier and catalog enablement, incident management, and hands-on troubleshooting to deliver a compliant, user-friendly, and reliable purchasing experience.
The Impact You’ll Make in This Role
As an Ariba Guided Buying, Commerce Automation, and P2O Specialist, you will help strengthen Solventum’s Source-to-Pay operations by:
Serving as a functional and technical support specialist for Ariba Guided Buying , Commerce Automation , P2O , and SAP S/4HANA procurement integration processes.
Supporting end-to-end buying processes from guided requisition creation through purchase order transmission, supplier response, confirmation, shipping notice, invoicing, and exception handling.
Enabling and maintaining catalogs, punchout sites, supplier content, buying channels, forms, landing pages, tiles, policies, and guided buying rules to improve usability and compliance.
Providing configuration, customization, testing, and release support for Guided Buying, Commerce Automation, catalog management, and P2O enhancements.
Troubleshooting requisition, purchase order, supplier network, catalog, approval, integration, and transaction failures across Ariba, SAP Business Network, middleware, and SAP S/4HANA.
Partnering with Procurement, Category Managers, Finance, IT, GBS partners, suppliers, and support teams to resolve issues, improve buying channels, and support business continuity.
Participating in requirements gathering, solution design, UAT, regression testing, deployment, hypercare, and post-go-live stabilization for procurement technology changes.
Ensuring procurement processes, configurations, and support activities align with internal controls, compliance expectations, audit readiness, and operational service levels.
Key Responsibilities
Act as the primary support and process specialist for Ariba Guided Buying , Commerce Automation , P2O , SAP Business Network, and related SAP S/4HANA procurement integrations.
Configure, maintain, and support Guided Buying functionality including landing pages, tiles, forms, policies, buying channels, approval guidance, non-catalog buying, and user experience improvements.
Support catalog management activities including hosted catalogs, punchout catalogs, supplier content updates, catalog…