You may be our new
Head of Procurement
Work Model: Hybrid
Compensation: 170-190K plus bonus. Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Summary
Strategic leader responsible for driving commercial excellence, delivering cost savings, and creating synergies across the global BIB/SP business. This role ensures the seamless integration of procurement data and processes, requiring extensive cross-functional collaboration to standardize procurement data and support the adoption of best practices. Without this position, the organization would face significant challenges in achieving data integration, transparency, and alignment between regional and global procurement strategies. The strategic influence of this job lies in its ability to optimize procurement spend, enhance decision-making, and foster consistency across procurement processes.
Key responsibilities

• Procurement Leadership: Act as the key procurement interface between the global BIB/SP business and the Global Procurement & Sourcing teams, ensuring data integration and alignment.
• Commercial Focus: Develop and implement commercial strategies to optimize procurement spend, negotiate favorable terms with suppliers, and drive cost savings initiatives to directly impact the P&L.
• Collaboration with Global Procurement Teams: Foster collaboration with Global Procurement Teams to align regional priorities with broader organizational strategies and ensure consistency in processes and systems.
• Data Collection and Validation: Lead data collection, validation, and harmonization efforts, ensuring consistency with existing procurement frameworks.
• Performance Tracking and Reporting: Oversee performance tracking and reporting, ensuring visibility and accountability for key metrics such as savings, supplier performance, and efficiency gains (especially regarding BIB/SP integration).
• Synergy Creation: Identify and leverage opportunities for synergies across different procurement categories and regions to maximize value creation and cost savings.
• Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers to ensure reliable supply, achieve cost savings, and foster innovation.
• Standardized Procurement Policies: Facilitate the adoption of standardized procurement policies and processes for BIB/SP within AM-N.
• Change Management: Drive communication and change management efforts to ensure smooth stakeholder alignment and process integration.
• Regular Reporting: Provide regular reporting and progress updates to leadership and key stakeholders on BIB/SP procurement integration, highlighting commercial achievements and areas for improvement.

You bring these skills, experience & education

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, data analytics or related field
• Master's degree (in same fields as bachelor's degree) is a plus but not required
• 7+ years of experience in procurement and supplier management, with at least 3+ years of leadership experience in indirect procurement
• Background in change management and stakeholder coordination within a global or regional procurement function

Ideal candidate has

• Project Management - Proven experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing transitions
• Stakeholder Communication - Strong ability to collaborate with regional and global teams, ensuring alignment
• Problem Solving - Experience in solving complex situations by implementing structured solutions
• Communication - Acts as a connector between teams, ensuring transparency in procurement data, aligning stakeholders, and facilitating clear information flow
• Teamwork - Collaborates with regional and global Procurement teams to ensure seamless procurement data integration and process alignment
• Change Management - Drives procurement process transitions, ensuring smooth adoption of common 1data structures and process frameworks
• Motivation and creative drive - Proactively identifies and implements solutions to enhance procurement transparency and efficiency
• Empathy and adaptive capabilities - Builds strong relationships across teams, bridging gaps between legacy procurement structures and BiB/ SP
• Readiness to learn and change - Adapts to evolving structures, continuously improving data and process alignment
• Quality- and outcome orientation - Ensures accuracy, consistency, and strategic relevance in procurement data and reporting frameworks
• Talent Management - Supports knowledge-sharing and capability-building within procurement teams to strengthen data-driven decision-making

We offer

• Generous Benefits
• Health & Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Retirement 401K Plan
• and much more

SIG competencies
We are looking for people who are willing to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances, employees who create a climate where everyone is motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives. If you actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged, if you develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals, SIG is the place for you. To deliver better for our customers, our future colleagues build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions. Finally, we are looking for colleagues who build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Are you someone who applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals? Are you someone who can create new and better ways for the organization to be successful? If the answer is 'yes', come and join us.
Our promise
SIG is the place for you to build something incredible. We offer competitive compensation and an opportunity to partially work from home. If you join us, you will be part of a globally successful international company, which is leading its industry in sustainability, technology, and more. We think of ourselves as the career launchpad - a place to develop yourself fast with real work, real experience, real opportunities to build skills. You will be part of a highly motivated and dynamic team, you will have personal development opportunities, trainings and coaching opportunities from senior team members. If you show skill and willingness to learn, we'll back you all the way.
About SIG
SIG is a leading provider of packaging systems and solutions for better. We work in partnership with our customers to bring food products to consumers around the world in a safe, sustainable, and affordable way. We are the only packaging system supplier covering carton, pouch, and bag-in-box. Our versatile technology and product innovation capacity enable us to deliver better for customers, for consumers, and for the world. Sustainability guides us, technology empowers us, but it's the passion and drive of our people that truly enable us to deliver better. Founded in 1853, SIG is headquartered in Neuhausen, Switzerland, and listed at the SIX Swiss Exchange.
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