Director Purchasing
Italy, Colognola ai Colli
Vantaggi professionali
I tuoi compiti e le tue responsabilità:
The purpose of this role is to lead the local Procurement organization, ensuring alignment with global and regional category strategies, optimizing performance, and driving transformation across processes, tools, and capabilities.
This is a strategic role with a long-term planning horizon (3–5 years) that contributes to corporate strategy through the implementation of new processes and standards, supports decision-making, and enables cost, cash, and productivity improvements.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Alignment
- Ensure alignment with Global/Regional Category Teams, BU Heads of Procurement, and Legal Entity leadership for implementation of direct and indirect category strategies.
- Support the definition of the local procurement strategy and drive execution in coordination with Category Teams.
- Provide strategic input to category teams for the overall procurement strategy.
Operational & Team Leadership
- Lead and develop the local procurement team, balancing daily operations, project activities, and strategic initiatives.
- Manage capacity conflicts between local needs and category-led requirements.
- Track performance and target achievement of direct reports.
- Collaborate with other site/team leads to optimize resource allocation and support specialization.
Performance, Governance & Compliance
- Accountable for local procurement performance and primary interface for Regional/Division/BU stakeholders.
- Ensure adherence to procurement processes and policies in line with global standards.
- Drive cost efficiency, spend and demand reduction, and productivity improvements.
- Escalate resource or target conflicts to Category Managers and BU Procurement Managers.
Innovation & Transformation
- Identify opportunities for automation, digitalization, and tool enhancement.
- Develop and implement procurement activities related to transformation initiatives.
- Introduce new processes and standards and continuously optimize procurement KPIs and workflows.
Key Stakeholders
- Procurement & Supply Chain (Divisions, BUs)
- Sales, Budget Owners
- Category Managers (direct & indirect)
- Strategic & Operational Buyers
- Division and Country Leaders
- Ethics, Legal & Compliance
- Suppliers, Subcontractors, Joint Ventures
Il tuo profilo e le tue qualifiche:
What sets you up for success:
- University degree in Economics or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Strong experience in procurement processes.
- Profound know how of international contract management.
- Experience implementing corporate procurement frameworks.
- Background in complex matrix and centralized organizations.
- Strong project management capabilities.
- Negotiation experience across the global supplier markets.
- Systems knowledge: Ariba, S2P, SAP.
- Native Italian; fluent English.
Bonus points if you have...
- Strong leadership and team development skills.
- Ability to build networks and manage relationships.
- Broad international business understanding.
- Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and strategic thinking abilities.
- High ownership and accountability.
- Strong communication and executive presence.
- Expertise in services, delivery, negotiation, contract and project management.
- Strong commercial and analytical mindset.
About GEA
GEA è fra i principali fornitori dell'industria di processo alimentare e delle bevande e di una vasta gamma di altre industrie di processo. Circa 18.000 dipendenti in più di 60 Paesi contribuiscono in modo significativo al successo di GEA – unisciti a loro anche tu! Offriamo incarichi interessanti e stimolanti, un ambiente di lavoro positivo in team internazionali e opportunità di sviluppo e crescita personale in una società internazionale.
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