Procurement Director - Manufacturing

A global manufacturing group with mutiple sites across Europe and with continued expanson and growth now
have a requirement for an experienced Procurement Director looking after several sites across Europe. Based in the Silesia region of Poland, it is a wonderful opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced leader.

Position outline role functional requirements:

• Ensure that the purchasing strategies and planning are correctly aligned with its overall corporate strategy
• Lead centralised direct and indirect sourcing, supplier quality and purchasing efforts
• Balancing a budget as per the company’s constraints
• Manage effective collaboration with all internal stake holders

Primary duties, specialist functions:

• Provide vision, leadership, planning, project coordination and people management for the development of an effective department
• Management of the entire purchasing functionalities & strategy
• Accomplish financial objectives, prepare an annual budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances, and initiate corrective actions
• Build positive professional relationships with own team members, members of other departments, vendor partners
• Design and implement 3-year road map for procurement team
• Oversee the development and execution of commodity strategies across all commodities within span of control
• Establish policies and procedures for department and ensure compliance
• Develop effective goals, standards, and metrics to keep track of the company’s and employee’s key performance indicators (KPI)
• Creating and managing relationships with suppliers
• Develop strategy to support supplier quality performance improvement
• Communicate job expectations, planning, monitoring, and appraising
• Product compliance assurance according to Compliance Policy, law and market demands
• Realisation of the Compliance Policy, it’s goals and raising concerns
• Fulfillment of tasks and obligations resulting from the Compliance Team Membership

Essential Primary KPI’s for the position:

• Cost improvement and cost avoidance
• Supplier delivery performance
• Supplier Quality and delivery performance
• Cost recovery
• Supply Chain Risk Management
• Sustainability/CSR engagement and initiatives
• Compliance

Required professional competencies (min. preconditions for the job function):

• Education - Master's degree
• Professional Experience - 10+
• Language skills - Fluent English as a minimum
• Personal competencies (e.g. able to work independently, enterprising, team player etc.) - Ability to effectively lead and motivate teams across a variety of functional roles, Strategic mindset and problem-solving skills, whilst ensuring strong mentoring and succession planning roadmaps
• Technical competences - Ideally from heavy industry background with a knowledge of engineering and chemical technologies
• Managerial competences - Strong leadership, communication skills, strong analytical skills, negotiation power
• IT skills - SAP, MS Office
• Miscellaneous (i.e. number of days of travel per year) - Frequent travel as the role is a Europewide functions