Procurement Operations Cluster Director Central and

Vor 4 Tagen


Mannheim, Deutschland Essity Vollzeit

**Procurement Operations Cluster Director Central & Northern Europe (d/f/m)**

Are you ready to step into a role where your actions resonate on a global scale? Where your expertise not only shapes a company but also crafts a better tomorrow? If you’re a visionary leader with a passion for procurement and purpose, Essity awaits you

Essity’s Global Procurement organization creates value by ensuring cost leadership and capturing supplier innovations for increased sales and margins. Global Procurement secures supply and ensures risk analysis and mitigating actions, as well as driving procurement with purpose contributing to corporate, social and environmental responsibility. It is a global and diverse organization with 400 employees.

We're looking for people who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We're always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we'd love to talk

**About the Role**

The Procurement Operations Cluster Director Central & Northern Europe is responsible for executing the global/regional strategies as well as developing local procurement strategies for defined areas to secure supply. The role works closely with strategic procurement and business partnering to ensure best-in-class services in a timely manner. Also, the role collaborates with other functions in Procurement Operations and with Procurement Excellence to ensure process standardization, system efficiency, and compliance with internal/external regulations as well as continuous improvement throughout the Procurement Operations organization.

The Procurement Operations Cluster Director is responsible for leading Procurement Operations Managers for the responsible geographies and location (mills, factories or offices).

**What You Will Do**
- Cascade procurement execution strategy within the cluster and ensure compliance
- Ensure the segregation and cooperation approach between procurement functions is clearly understood by the team
- Develop local procurement strategies to mitigate risk, secure supply, generate cost saving/avoidance initiatives as well as value creation and bundling opportunities within the cluster and region
- Align with business partnering to fulfil Manufacturing’s requirements and priorities
- Control and reduce supply base for local categories
- Secure SLA fulfilment and guide the procurement team to reach KPIs
- Facilitate buying channel strategy and identify opportunity to contract volume and reduce ad-hoc buy
- Standardize processes and procedures to allow the team performing same task cross different locations
- Increase team's flexibility to allow cross countries/region support if needed
- Share best practice across clusters and regions
- Collaborate with Procurement Excellence to deliver continuous improvement and develop reports
- Identify business/organizational needs and anchor it for further process development
- Identify improvement opportunities to further raise digitalization and system efficiency

**Who You Are**
- Master’s degree or equivalent within a relevant field (Business, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering etc.)
- At least +10 years working experience in similar role in procurement within manufacturing environment
- SAP ( S4 Hana)knowledge is a nice to have
- Proven ability to lead people and create a collaborative work environment driven by ambitious goals as well as high team spirit
- Ability to work in a complex, matrix, international organization
- Analytical mindset and results oriented
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Perspective and holistic vision
- Fluent in English, in addition German, Dutch or Swedish language is an advantage
- Experience in driving / implementing complex organizational changes is highly preferred

**What We Can Offer You**

At Essity, we believe everyone's learning and professional development is unique and want to empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

Collaborative and Inclusive Culture | Empowering & Engaged Leaders | Working with Powerful Purpose & Sustainable Impact | Learning and Growing in your Career | Supporting Well-being & Sustainable Working Life | Life-changing Innovations | Competitive Total rewards

**Additional Information**

This position is ideally based in one of our main sites / offices in Germany.

**Together, we are improving lives, every day.**:
Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.

**Application End Date**:
17 juin 2024



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