• Promoting the highest standards of safety, diversity, inclusion & ethical practice in the organization.

• Identify, develop, and implement regional sourcing strategies to reduce total delivered cost, mitigate headwinds and improve security of supply.

• Partner with procurement peers around the world to understand & align on global sourcing strategies, and drive implementation across the regional supply chain team.

• Develop relationships and leverage market intelligence & digital tools to influence internal and external stakeholders, and optimize lowest Total Delivered Cost (TDC).

• Create and implement best practice procurement vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve business performance.

• Ensure that purchasing strategies and processes are in place to deliver optimized costs while meeting business objectives and operational needs.

• Support sustainability and environmental strategies that impact future ways of operating.

• Maintain a close working relationship with supply chain, operations business leaders and R&D leadership teams to support their strategic growth objectives and identify & implement cost-savings and efficiency opportunities for gross margin improvement.

• Lead, coach and mentor one or more procurement representatives.

• Minimum 8 years of work experience, with 5 years of procurement experience (direct and indirect) and 3 years leading teams.

• Strong leadership, influencing and collaboration skills.

• Aptitude in decision-making and working with numbers.

• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.

• Bachelor's degree in purchasing, engineering, chemistry, supply chain management, business administration or related field.