Procurement Director Raw Materials €150K+

In this role, you will be the raw materials procurement business partner of the several business teams. The high impact at topline and bottomline results of raw material conditions causes joined ownership of business results with high visibility. You’ll lead a senior procurement team of 6 fte to the best results.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Lead a team of Category Managers RM to secure commercial excellence across the regions, drive performance improvements within the supply chain and secure that all procurement deliverables within projects are provided on time at a high quality.
• Act as the Business Partner to the business teams to agree on cost targets, secure alignment between RM procurement activities and Business priorities as well as securing a strong communication and collaboration overall with the Business
• Develop and drive the organization to identify improvement areas, explore cost reduction opportunities and establish a total cost of ownership approach internally and with external suppliers. Actively work to improve commercial terms with suppliers, identify ways to support minimize spending and reduce cost to support the company’s financial objectives.
• Deploy the new category management organization with the relevant tools, metrics and follow up to ultimately establish an efficient supplier management process.
• Lead the team to develop by setting challenging objectives, provide opportunities for learning, development and personal growth for the teams.
• Work actively with key stakeholders across Business and within manufacturing, engineering, finance and other functions to build alignment around targets and establish common execution plans to support business growth and profitability improvement.
• Manage the overall budget and develops a yearly planning with key milestones, activities and target settings.
• Represents the Business both inside and outside the organization; builds and maintains a network of business contacts in support of organizational objectives; conducts business in a responsible and ethical manner.
• Develops and implements sourcing strategies for product and services designed to support the identified business needs and in line with the Global Procurement strategy.

Education
Masters Degree, within Business Administration, Engineering or other relevant area.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence and inspire to change

• Strong focus on value creation and performance management
• Good understanding of external business trends
• Strong analytical skills: highly numerate, structured, organized, and accurate
• Experience in change management and of working in a multinational environment.
• Comprehensive experience in category management.
• Good communication skills with the ability to engage people at all levels of the organization
• Strong negotiating skills and business acumen
• Ability to prioritize efficiently and strong decision making skills
• Highly effective with stakeholder management and capability to build strong relationship internally and externally
• Analytical mind set and excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to resolve conflicts and building organizational alignment
• Proficient with MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Experience

Minimum 10 years work experience of strategic, project and operational procurement of which 5 with direct procurement. +3 years experience of people management ideally in a multinational company.

Language Skills: Fluent in English. Additional languages are an asset.