Vice President Procurement Industrial Vacuum Division (m/f/d)

at  Atlas Copco Holding GmbH

VICE PRESIDENT PROCUREMENT INDUSTRIAL VACUUM DIVISION (M/F/D)

Functional area: Purchasing
Country: Germany
City: Cologne
Company name: Atlas Copco Holding GmbH
Date of posting: Aug 23, 2024
Our solutions are a key part of most industries - electronics, medical research, renewable energy, food production, infrastructure and many more. Working with us means working with the latest technologies and groundbreaking, sustainable innovations.

YOUR ROLE:

Your mission: In the position of Vice President Procurement, you will contribute to the growth of the division by further developing & implementing the Divisional Sourcing Strategy supported with the vision of “First in mind, First in choice”. Your mission will be to ensure world class supply chain management for the Industrial Vacuum Division & Industrial Vacuum Product Companies and with your local procurement teams, you will continuously develop and manage the supply chains in line with the divisional strategy of local to local, risk mitigation & the divisional operational model. Within your mission you will further develop the procurement team and structure and further integrate our acquisitions to have a sustainable CC7 approach in place.

FURTHER MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES ARE:

• Focus on product-cost reduction and operational excellence in terms of overall cost, quality, delivery performance and lowest capital tight up for our division by using benchmarking and best practice tools
• Continuously research existing and potential markets with your teams and evaluate all existing and potential suppliers based on their financial stability, technical capabilities, quality, logistic performance and their cost structure
• Establish increased flexibility with suppliers in order to meet our increasing material demand in relation to the continued growth: reduced delivery times, zero defects and Quality Assurance Systems as well as improved material flows are essential to our success to meet the needs of our customers
• Work closely together with the manufacturing departments to optimize and control the material supply chain in a quality assured way
• Actively support the engineering departments to find technical competent, cost-effective suppliers to leverage the innovation capabilities of our business partners to continuously upgrade our product range
• Search for new technologies in the supplier’s market in order to support development projects and cooperate with different R&D teams to co-develop core components
• Implement cost reduction projects
• Assess our acquisitions and develop them to the same standards applied in mature companies
• Further develop and promote applications and sourcing processes to improve & to increase transparency of suppliers’ performance and the cost structures of our supply chains
• Take corrective action in order to consolidate the supply base to the best performing suppliers
• Embrace the “Safety First” culture and implement 5S leading practices in order to improve further the performance of the product company, striving for zero work related accidents
• Develop and lead a successful team of cohesive, competent, committed and result oriented people
• Interact trustful and result-oriented with your divisional peers, the General Managers of the PCs and the local teams as well as with other Divisions, mainly in General Vacuum
• Cooperate pro-actively in the Procurement Council of the VTBA as a member or leader
• Develop talents and create an atmosphere of trust, purpose and wellbeing where people want to grow