Coupa Functional SME / Digital Procurement Specialist

Position: Coupa Functional SME / Digital Procurement Specialist
Location: Houston, TX (4 days onsite)
Summary:
The main function of this Procurement Specialist is technical and hand-on expertise for the digital enablement of Supply Chain, supporting adoption and optimization of digital procurement platforms, including Coupa primarily, and SAP S/4HANA, and Ariba across the procure-to-pay lifecycle. Act as a functional SME, solution owner, and trusted advisor for system administration, process enablement, automation, data governance, analytics, and Agentic AI. Help to design, configure, test, and deploy scalable digital solutions that support efficient, compliant, and data-driven buying behavior. Accountable for assigned enablement outcomes, solution performance, process standardization, adoption, and continuous improvement across Supply Chain.
Job Responsibilities:

• Configuration expertise, and continuous-improvement support for digital procurement systems, including Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, and Ariba, to enable efficient and compliant end-to-end P2P processes.
• Functional support and platform subject-matter expert for procurement technologies, supporting solution design, system administration, master data integrity, user access, integrations, and platform governance.
• Identifies, designs, and implements process automation and digitization opportunities that reduce manual effort, strengthen compliance, improve the user experience, and embed preventive or detective controls into buying processes.

Skills:
Coupa SME.

• Deep functional understanding of source-to-pay and P2P processes, including intake, guided buying, requisitioning, approvals, purchase orders, receiving, invoicing, supplier enablement, and controls.
• Strong business analysis, process-mapping, solution-design, root-cause analysis, testing, documentation, and change-enablement skills.
• Strong data literacy and ability to interpret process, spend, supplier, adoption, and system-performance data.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple procurement activities.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related field required.
• 2-4 years of experience
• Coupa and/or SAP certification (S/4HANA or Ariba
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile, Scrum, or product-management certification

Comments for Suppliers: Needs strong Coupa systems SME, not just a Coupa user.