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Type of work: Hybrid
Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent
Full/Tempo parziale: Full time
Salary Range:
Location:
ROMA, IT Zaventem, BE
About Us
Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a "Bridgestone West" strategic region.
This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan.
Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.
About The Role
Job Purpose
As part of the Procurement Operations, Digitalization & Strategic Excellence team, the Procurement Data & Digital Excellence Specialist is responsible for building and maintaining the data foundations that enable modern, data-driven procurement operations.
The role ensures procurement data is accurate, reliable, governed, and accessible in real time to support operational excellence, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities.
Working closely with procurement, IT, data engineering, and business stakeholders, the specialist will transform procurement data into a strategic asset that drives better decision?making and continuous improvement
Also, Bridgestone Europe is embedding AI across multiple ERP (mostly SAP - S/4HANA, BDC) landscapes and platforms.
Within Procurement, this role delivers the data products that make those use cases possible: clearly defined, properly modelled, documented,



and trusted.
Responsibilities
Data Governance & Stewardship
Act as the Procurement Data Steward for master and transactional procurement data.
Define, implement and continuously improve procurement data standards, governance and quality rules.
Monitor data quality KPIs and drive corrective actions with business and IT teams.
Ensure data consistency across SAP and connected procurement applications.
Data Foundation & Architecture
Data Attribute Definition: Define and document data attributes, business rules, calculation logic, and field-level definitions for all procurement data products — spend, suppliers, contracts, and purchasing KPIs.
Collaborate with IT and Data Platform teams to ensure procurement data is available, secure and scalable.
Support the integration of SAP data with enterprise data platforms and analytical environments.
Contribute to the evolution of procurement data architecture.
Source-to-Target Validation: mappings from SAP S/4HANA and various data sources into SAP Business Data Cloud and Databricks, ensuring data flows correctly and completely.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Develop and maintain procurement dashboards, KPIs and self?service reporting solutions.
Translate business requirements into actionable reporting and analytics.
Support procurement category managers and leadership with insightful data analysis.
Promote data-driven decision making throughout the procurement organization.
AI Enablement
Ensure procurement data is AI?ready by improving its quality, structure and accessibility.
Support the deployment of AI and Generative AI use cases within procurement.
Partner with Digital and AI teams to identify opportunities
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📌 Procurement Data & Digital Excellence Specialist (Lazio)
🏢 Bridgestone EMEA
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