# Business Operations Team Lead **Company**: Nebius **Location**: Amsterdam **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nebius/jobs/5018233101?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_03c301f1-fd2 ## Description The Business Operations Team Lead is a hands-on leadership role, combining people management with direct ownership and execution of Business Operations activities and processes. The role is responsible for leading and developing a team of Operations Specialists, driving strong operational performance, and ensuring effective and scalable execution across the purchase-to-pay (P2P) lifecycle. Working closely with Procurement, Finance, Accounts Payable, Legal, Accounting, Treasury, Logistics, and other stakeholders, the Team Lead drives process improvements, resolves cross-functional challenges, supports the implementation of new capabilities and ways of working, and helps ensure that Business Operations can effectively support the organization as it grows. Key Responsibilities: - Lead, coach, and develop the Business Operations team, setting clear expectations, providing ongoing feedback, managing performance, and supporting individual professional growth. - Maintain an active hands-on role in Business Operations activities, including managing assigned PRs, requests and tickets, while also supporting complex cases and operational escalations across the P2P lifecycle, alongside team leadership responsibilities. - Own and continuously improve Business Operations processes and operational standards, ensuring effective, consistent, and scalable execution across the team. - Drive operational performance and quality by managing team priorities and workload, monitoring key metrics, identifying trends and gaps, and taking action to improve results. - Partner with Procurement, Finance, AP, Legal, Accounting, Treasury, and other stakeholders to manage cross-functional topics and resolve operational challenges. - Identify recurring issues, process gaps, and inefficiencies, and drive practical improvements from identification through implementation. - Drive and contribute to the design, testing, implementation, and adoption of new workflows, systems, automation, and operational capabilities. - Ensure processes and execution are aligned with internal policies, controls, and business requirements. - Lead and contribute to cross-functional projects and initiatives that improve efficiency, quality, controls, and scalability. Key Qualifications & Experience: - 5+ years of experience in Business Operations, Procurement Operations, Finance Operations, P2P, or a related operational role, with a strong understanding of end-to-end procurement and purchase-to-pay processes. - Demonstrated experience leading and developing team members, either through formal people management or a team leadership role. - Experience driving cross-functional processes and working with stakeholders across Procurement, Finance, AP, Legal, Accounting, and other business functions. - Demonstrated experience identifying process gaps, resolving complex operational issues, and driving improvements through implementation. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data and operational insights to support decision-making. - Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and drive alignment across teams. - Experience working with ERP, procurement, finance, or workflow management systems. - Fluent English. - Experience working in a global and rapidly scaling organization. Competencies & Behavioral Traits: - Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach, develop, and create accountability within a team. - High level of ownership and accountability, with the ability to drive topics independently from identification through resolution. - Strong end-to-end and process-oriented thinking, with the ability to identify dependencies, gaps, and broader business impact. - Proactive and solution-oriented, with a strong continuous-improvement mindset. - Strong judgment and ability to prioritize and make decisions in a dynamic environment. - Collaborative and effective at building strong stakeholder relationships, influencing decisions, and driving alignment across functions. - Comfortable challenging existing ways of working and driving change. - Structured and analytical, with the ability to balance hands-on execution, people leadership, and improvement initiatives. Benefits & Perks: - Competitive compensation - Career growth and learning opportunities - Flexibility and ownership - Collaborative and innovative culture - Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects - International environment and talented teams ## Skills ### Required - Business Operations - Procurement Operations - Finance Operations - P2P - Leadership - Communication - Analytical skills - Problem-solving skills - ERP - procurement - finance - workflow management systems - English --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nebius/jobs/5018233101?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)