Job Summary This is an exciting opportunity to lead the local procurement function in a market-driven environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing direct reports, utilizing business acumen to provide strategic thinking that ensures protection of margins and creation of value. Main Responsibilities 1. Meet regularly with senior stakeholders to achieve early involvement in Business strategy definition, influencing key decisions and improving resource allocations. 2. Align local sourcing plans with regional plans according to Cluster direction and influence internal stakeholders to deploy global or regional initiatives locally. 3. Mastery of complex negotiation to drive business needs and proactively build levers. Coordinate and steer critical negotiations and lead complex ones. 4. Provide visibility during budgeting process in close alignment with budget owners (MD—1) and Finance, providing market insights like inflation and driving value initiatives that protect local affiliate Margins. 5. For non-critical services or goods, balance correctly the usage of customized contractual frameworks versus Purchase Orders to meet Company objectives of speed and time-to-market. 6. Encourage a Lean way of working and ensure effective transfer of non-core procurement sourcing processes to SSC (if applicable) or/and effective deployment of Regional/Global Procurement Models. 7. Manage effectively remote teams and successfully leverage on Procurement operations centers. 8. Review the Affiliate's business proposals for consistency with laws and company policies. Participate on project teams, ensuring that their decisions and recommendations protect the legal interests of the company, and execute decisions to achieve objectives on a timely basis. Requirements A minimum of 7 years of experience in Procurement/Supply Chain/commercial functions, familiar with market regulatory environments. Excellent analytical skills, communication skills, project management skills, excellent negotiation and influencing skills at all levels. Great understanding of how matrix organization works and ability to establish a network across the organizations. What We Offer - Flexible working hours/home office possibility. - 25 vacation days and 4 health days. - Summer/winter vacation contribution. - 11,000 points in Benefit Café. - Multisport Card. - Meal Tickets. - Life & Accident insurance. - Pension plan with contribution (3rd Pillar). - Benefit car.