Group Procurement Manager

Náplň práce, právomoci a zodpovednosti:

Key Responsibilities:

Group Procurement Foundations & Governance

• Establish the practical foundations of Group Procurement and progressively develop a pragmatic Group procurement framework aligned with the overall business and supply chain agenda.

• Create a structured roadmap for moving from largely local purchasing activities toward a more coordinated Group model, with clear priorities for immediate execution.

• Identify which procurement activities should remain local and where Group-level sourcing, negotiation, category management or contract ownership will create greater value.

• Establish clear procurement governance, responsibilities, decision rights, sourcing controls and escalation mechanisms across the organisation.

• International travel 30 - 50 %

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management

• Lead strategic sourcing initiatives across key direct and indirect spend categories.

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the Group’s supplier landscape, spend structure and category opportunities.

• Build practical sourcing and category approaches for strategically important direct materials, metal components, packaging, energy, services and other relevant spend areas.

• Consolidate volumes and requirements across locations where appropriate to unlock economies of scale and stronger commercial conditions.

• Lead or coordinate major tenders, supplier selections and commercial negotiations, including Group-level negotiations for strategically important categories such as energy.

Cost Competitiveness & Procurement Synergies

• Identify and deliver cross-site procurement synergies across the Group.

• Drive sustainable improvements in total acquisition cost rather than focusing exclusively on purchase price.

• Challenge historical sourcing arrangements and identify opportunities for:

  • supplier consolidation,

  • specification harmonisation,

  • alternative sourcing,

  • volume bundling,

  • contractual improvements,

  • improved payment and commercial conditions.

• Work closely with Finance and Operations to ensure that procurement initiatives translate into measurable P&L and cash-flow impact.

• Establish transparent savings methodologies, baselines and reporting.

Supplier Strategy & Relationship Management

• Build a structured approach to strategic supplier management.

• Segment suppliers according to business criticality, value, risk and strategic importance.

• Develop long-term partnerships with selected suppliers while maintaining appropriate commercial tension and competitiveness.

• Lead senior-level negotiations with strategically important suppliers.

• Implement supplier performance reviews covering areas such as cost, quality, delivery, innovation, responsiveness and risk.

Supply Resilience & Risk Management

• Strengthen the resilience of the Group’s supply base and reduce exposure to critical single-source or geographically concentrated suppliers.

• Identify vulnerabilities across key materials and categories and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.

• Support dual sourcing, alternative materials, supplier development and contingency planning where commercially and operationally appropriate.

• Work closely with Supply Chain, Operations and Quality to ensure procurement decisions balance cost competitiveness with reliability, quality and continuity of supply.

Procurement Organisation & Operating Model

• Assess existing procurement capabilities across the organisation and determine the most effective future operating model.

• Build stronger collaboration between local buyers, plant management and Group functions, creating alignment without relying on direct hierarchical authority.

• Clarify roles between Group Procurement and local/site purchasing organisations.

• Develop procurement standards, policies, processes and tools that can be applied consistently across the Group.

• Coach and support local procurement teams, helping them understand the value of Group-wide initiatives and reducing resistance to common approaches.

• Where required, recommend organisational changes and additional capabilities necessary to support the Group’s future scale.

Group Contracts & Commercial Governance

• Take ownership of strengthening the Group’s approach to supplier contracting, sourcing control and commercial governance.

• Ensure strategically important supplier relationships and sourcing activities are supported by appropriate contractual frameworks, approvals and controls.

• Improve visibility and control of contractual obligations, NDAs, pricing mechanisms, indexation, payment terms, service expectations, qualification requirements and renewal dates.

• Partner with Legal, Finance, Quality and R&D on complex commercial agreements, supplier qualification requirements and negotiations.

Procurement Data, Systems & Analytics

• Establish greater transparency around spend, suppliers, pricing and procurement performance.

• Develop reliable procurement reporting and KPIs for management decision-making.

• Work with the wider Supply Chain organisation to ensure procurement data is integrated into the Group’s broader systems and planning environment.

• Use data and market intelligence to support negotiations, category decisions and supplier strategies.

• Identify opportunities to improve procurement data, tools and digital capabilities over time as the Group Procurement function matures; major ERP harmonisation is not an immediate priority.

Outsourcing, Growth & Integration

• Support and accelerate the Group’s increasing use of external manufacturing and outsourcing partners, including suppliers capable of delivering finished products or components.

• Establish robust commercial and contractual frameworks for outsourced production and coordinate supplier qualification with Operations, Quality and R&D.

• Identify opportunities to increase outsourcing flexibility, capacity and supply resilience where commercially and operationally attractive.

• Support acquisitions, integrations, new products and capacity-growth initiatives by assessing supplier bases, contracts, purchasing conditions and procurement synergies where relevant.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Work as a close partner to the Group Supply Chain Director and broader Operations organisation.

• Collaborate extensively with Plant Directors, Supply Chain Managers, Finance, Quality, Engineering, R&D and Commercial teams.

• Understand operational and customer requirements before developing sourcing strategies.

• Influence local and functional stakeholders without direct authority, constructively challenge site preferences and build support for solutions that create a better overall result for the Group.

Zamestnanecké výhody, benefity:

• Competitive compensation package reflecting the international scope and responsibility of the position.

• Performance-based annual bonus linked to business and transformation objectives.

• High degree of autonomy and ownership within an international industrial group undergoing transformation.

• Significant career runway as the Group continues to scale, with the opportunity to shape the future development of Procurement and potentially take on broader responsibility over time.

• International working environment with exposure to executive leadership and strategic business initiatives.

• A highly visible Group role within a rapidly growing international industrial organisation committed to operational excellence and sustainable growth.

Informácie o výberovom konaní:
International travel 30 - 50 %

Požiadavky na zamestnanca:

Requirements:    

Experience & Background

• Significant professional experience in strategic procurement, sourcing or category management within an international industrial or manufacturing environment.

• Proven experience managing procurement across multiple manufacturing locations, countries or business units.

• Demonstrated track record of delivering meaningful savings and commercial improvements through strategic sourcing and supplier negotiations.

• Strong experience in direct-material procurement within manufacturing, ideally including industrial raw materials, metal components, packaging and/or energy.

• Experience developing supplier strategies and managing complex supplier relationships.

• Strong understanding of contracts, commercial terms and procurement risk.

• Experience working in an organisation where procurement capability was being built, centralised, transformed or significantly upgraded.

• Proven ability to create alignment across decentralised manufacturing organisations and influence local procurement, plant and senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority.

• Strong project-management capability with experience driving cross-functional initiatives across multiple countries and manufacturing sites.

• Excellent analytical and financial understanding, including the ability to translate procurement decisions into P&L and cash impact.

 Preferred Experience

• Experience establishing or developing Group-level procurement or category-management structures.

• Exposure to procurement integration following acquisitions or organisational restructuring.

• Experience in supplier consolidation, alternative sourcing and supply-risk mitigation.

• Familiarity with spend analytics, procurement data and digital sourcing tools; systems-transformation expertise is advantageous but not essential.

• Experience supporting rapidly growing or transformation-oriented industrial organisations.

Leadership & Personal Profile

• Commercially sharp – able to negotiate strongly while understanding the broader economics of the business.

• Analytical and data-driven – comfortable making decisions based on facts, spend data and market intelligence.

• Hands-on and execution-oriented – capable of creating the procurement framework while personally driving negotiations, contract reviews and sourcing initiatives.

• Entrepreneurial and proactive – someone who identifies opportunities rather than waiting for them to be assigned.

• Resilient – able to work effectively in an evolving environment where structures and processes are still being developed.

• Influential – capable of bringing plant and functional teams together and building support for Group-wide solutions without direct authority.

• Pragmatic – able to distinguish between theoretical procurement best practice and what will genuinely create value for the business.

• Collaborative – particularly in the relationship with Supply Chain, Operations, Finance and local management.

• Comfortable challenging the status quo and prepared to conduct difficult negotiations internally as well as externally.

• Energetic and hungry to build – motivated by the opportunity to create a Group capability almost from scratch, deliver visible results and grow with the organisation.

 Languages

• Fluent English is essential.

• Additional European languages are considered an advantage.