Director Purchasing (Specialty Lines & Machines) (COMAS)

at  GEA Group

Torrebelvicino, Veneto, Italy -

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Immediate05 May, 2025Not Specified06 Feb, 20255 year(s) or aboveContract Management,Leadership Skills,Cultural Awareness,Communication Skills,Ownership,Ariba,Project Management Skills,Sap,Economics,EnglishNoNo
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DIRECTOR PURCHASING (SPECIALTY LINES & MACHINES) (COMAS)

GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.
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Responsibilities:

  • Ensures alignment with global and regional Category Teams, BU Heads of Procurement, and the Legal entity organization to drive implementation of category (direct and indirect) requirements in the own area of responsibility
  • Manages global and local stakeholders’ collaboration with Project Procurement Managers and Category Teams
  • Supports defining the local procurement strategy in Region / Division, drives implementation with the local team and aligns it with Category Teams
  • Responsible to manage the local resources to serve both, daily operational and project related activities and strategic initiatives led by category teams
  • Levels capacity issues between both functional / category-led and local requirements
  • Tracks target achievement of direct reports
  • Aligns with other site/ team leads to balance the resources cross location to implement strategically important projects and to drive specialization of strategic people
  • Is accountable for local procurement performance objectives/targets and interface for Regional/ Division/ BU stakeholders on all procurement related topics for services, products, and materials and coordination with Procurement and central functions of region
  • Escalates resource and target conflicts with Category Managers and BU Manager of Procurement Ensures adherence in procurement process and policies at the site/ in the region in line with Global Procurement standards
  • Focuses on cost efficiency implementation across regional procurement teams
  • Strives for identification of automation and digitalization practices and tool improvement
  • Develops and deploys procurement activities related to transformation initiative


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:5.0Max:10.0 year(s)

Logistics/Procurement

Purchase / Logistics / Supply Chain

Logistics, Purchasing, Inventory

Graduate

Economics or engineering is a plus

Proficient

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Torrebelvicino, Veneto, Italy