Job Description
About the Role
We are seeking an accomplished Global Head of Procurement to define, lead, and continuously evolve our global procurement strategy across both Direct and Indirect spend categories. This is a pivotal leadership role with responsibility for delivering value creation, ensuring supply continuity, strengthening supplier performance, mitigating risk, and advancing ESG and digital transformation objectives across a complex, international, matrix-driven organization.
With oversight of an annual spend of approximately CHF 750 million, you will build a global organization, shape procurement governance, cost competitiveness, supplier strategy, and organizational capability and efficiency while partnering closely with senior leaders across Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Compliance, ESG, and other corporate functions.
Key Responsibilities
* Define and lead the global procurement strategy across Direct and Indirect categories, ensuring alignment with business priorities, financial goals, operational needs, and growth ambitions.
* Own procurement governance and spend performance by establishing group-wide policies, ethical sourcing standards, and robust control frameworks while optimizing value across an annual spend of approximately CHF 750 million.
* Drive strategic sourcing and supplier management through category strategies, supplier segmentation, contract negotiations, performance management, innovation partnerships, and risk monitoring.
* Elevate Indirect Procurement excellence by professionalizing decentralized spend areas, standardizing sourcing approaches, strengthening demand management, and partnering effectively with functions such as IT, HR, Finance, Marketing, and Logistics.
* Strengthen supply resilience, compliance, and sustainability by mitigating supplier and geopolitical risks, ensuring adherence to trade and ethical standards, and embedding ESG criteria into sourcing, supplier selection, and performance reporting.
* Lead procurement transformation and capability building by advancing digitalization, improving data quality and visibility, embedding best-in-class processes, and building a high-performing international procurement organization with strong executive stakeholder engagement.
Qualifications
* Extensive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain, including leadership of global and international teams.
* Proven track record managing large, complex spend portfolios (ideally CHF/ €500m+) across both Direct and Indirect categories.
* Experience operating in multinational, matrix-driven organizations, ideally within industrial, manufacturing, or technology environments.
* Strong strategic and commercial acumen, with demonstrated success in cost optimization, value creation, category management, supplier negotiations, and contract structuring.
* Solid understanding of procurement finance levers, risk management, compliance, and supply continuity in a global environment.
* Proven ability to lead change and transformation, including procurement digitalization, process improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
* Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the credibility to influence senior executives and external strategic partners.
* Master’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, or a related field; MBA or equivalent executive education preferred.
* Fluent English is essential; additional languages such as German, French, or Mandarin are advantageous.