Head of Procurement

To solve the biggest challenges of our time, we need bright minds with the ambition to make the impossible possible. Siemens is your place to thrive, challenge the status quo, make a difference and grow in a team of innovators who share your passion for tech. Are you in?

Join us at Siemens Digital Industries, where your expertise will power our journey towards enhanced profitability, innovative digitalisation, and a sustainable supply chain.

**Role Highlights**:
As the Head of Procurement, you'll orchestrate, optimise, and champion procurement activities, aiming to elevate operating profit, value creation, and delivery performance. Your savvy leadership will drive Lean and Digitalisation initiatives, igniting innovation within the integrated Congleton location. Your impact will stretch beyond the bottom line - contribute to sustainable practices that reduce carbon footprint, planetary resource use, and enhance circularity.

**You’ll make an impact by**
- Elevate Profitability: in charge of material/service planning, optimisation, and control for optimal financial outcomes.
- Empower Teams: Nurture a motivated team, fostering long-term success through selection, management, assessment, and development of talent.
- Champion Global Strategy: Play a pivotal role in implementing group-wide procurement strategies, uniting global objectives with local excellence.
- Dynamic Supplier Management: Spearhead sourcing, selection, and development of suppliers to ensure top-notch quality, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.
- Strategic Planning: Craft and execute objectives that align with business and market trends, leading cross-functional teams to measurable success.
- Commercial Excellence: Ensure seamless ordering procedures within legal bounds, enriching economic success, efficiency, and compliance.

**You’re excited to build on your existing expertise, including**:

- Strategic Vision: Ability to make decisions that impact Siemens' complete success while meeting quality, cost, delivery, and sustainability targets.
- Global Savvy: Extensive cross-functional and international experience to navigate diverse cultures and negotiate effectively.
- Innovation Mentality: Fuel innovation by using complex international supply chain insights.
- Leadership Prowess: Proven experience in team management and development, with a knack for inspiring high-performance and ownership culture.
- Interpersonal Dynamism: Excellent communication skills and unwavering motivation to foster self-organized cross-functional teams.

**We offer you**

At Siemens we're not just offering a job, we're offering a chance to tailor your own compensation package to suit your individual wants and needs. With competitive salaries, generous holiday allowances, pensions, and a range of additional benefits, we know how to take care of our employees.

But that's not all We also pride ourselves on having a culture that is friendly, helpful, and engaging, so you'll enjoy coming to work every day. And if career growth is important to you, we have you covered with our supportive environment that invests in your future. From Chartership to training to mentoring, we'll help you reach your full potential.