At Johnson & Johnson, the largest healthcare company in the world, we come together for one purpose: to transform the history of health in humanity._ - Diversity & Inclusion are essential to continue building our history of pioneering and innovation, which has been impacting the health of more than 1 billion patients and consumers every day for more than 130 years. Regardless of your race, belief, sexual orientation, religion, or any other trait, YOU are welcome in all open positions at the largest healthcare company in the world._ - When You Join Johnson & Johnson, Your Move Could Mean Our Next Breakthrough._ - Our vision is to be the best-in-class Health & Wellness organization by leveraging the commercial strategy to deliver competitive advantage and value creation for the consumer, customer, and J&J.; And as part of one of the largest and most diverse healthcare companies in the world, our brands leverage the company’s world-class research tools and scientific prowess to provide consumers across the globe with innovative consumer medicines, skin, baby, and essential health solutions. _ - You deserve to work in a place where you feel well and welcome._ **We are searching the best talent for **R2P Payment Lead LATAM** to be in Bogota.** **Purpose**: The R2P Specialist Lead LATAM will be responsible for the being the “single point of contact” (SPOC) for interactions between the requesters and business partners and the sourcing specialists, contract champions and accounts payable specialists ensuring a positive and compliant end user experience. These interactions would primarily be (but not limited to) providing general assistance - i.e. PO creation, receiving, invoice approval, invoice block resolution, PO closer, Payment status, etc. The scope of this role is at LATAM level and covers Payment process for national, international suppliers + intercompany. The R2P Specialist will be responsible for executing alignment to and compliance with defined Source to Settle related Accounts Payable (A/P) specific operational processes & policies. These job duties include (but are not limited to) process operations of the Company’s Aged Trial Balance (ATB) debit/credit balance positions (including recovery of long standing ATB credit positions), A/P Duplicate Payment, Recovery Audit functional operations, coordination of the annual Supplier Statement solicitation & internal credit recovery operations, conducting A/P transactional compliance audits, providing support for Req-to-Pay related Sarbanes-Oxley testing & reporting obligations, supplier risk & fraud management support, executing Escheat/Unclaimed Property process coordination and compliance reporting support (where applicable). The R2P Specialist Lead will address supplier related inquires related to the transacting of POs, invoices and/or supplier master data. It will have the primary service responsibility for creating and maintaining supplier data in concert with its use within the source-to-settle process. It will be also responsible for insuring compliance to the defined processes when engaging with the various end users (requestor, business partner, suppliers, fellow associates). The R2P Specialist Lead will b the primary contact for escalations from business and should ensure appropriate and agile response in order to solve potential issues. The R2P Specialist Lead will have responsibility for managing a group of R2P Specialists. This will include (but not limited to) standard HR and talent responsibilities (i.e. performance management, succession planning, organizational assessments) as well as the increasing the skill set of the R2P Specialists (i.e. training, performance development). **You will be responsible for**: **Talent Management** - Manage the training and development of organizational talent - Conduct talent and organization analyses, assess change impacts, and support change management integration activities - Create and manage training plans, talent development initiatives, communication plans, and succession planning activities - Communicate procurement organization strategy, policies, and organizational competencies - Service Delivery Management **Ensure R2P service delivery meets agreed service levels**: - Concierge Management - Receive, analyze, and resolve supplier inquiries and disputes - Manage purchase execution, contract intake, sourcing events, and exception purchase needs - Track and monitor the deliveries of goods and services - Communicate compliance requirements, stakeholder management, and change management integration activities - Administer Supplier Data - Ensure Bank Account requests - Implement framework to identify and target supplier deactivation based on internal policies - Manage supplier issue resolution/escalation and implement risk mitigation plans - Monitor compliance, conduct business review meetings, and perform transition activities - Sarbanex-Oxley - Internal/External Audit Process - Manage