Procurement League Leader

Executive summary: The Procurement League Leader connects people, projects, suppliers, and procurement expertise to accelerate competitiveness, resilience, innovation, and organizational capability across the Process Automation business.

You will be at the heart of innovation, working with Business, Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and global suppliers to shape the next generation of Process Automation offers.

As the strategic procurement voice for the League, you will influence product architecture, technology choices, Design or Buy and Make-or-Buy decisions, cost competitiveness, supply resilience, and time-to-market from the earliest design stages through industrial ramp-up.

Lead and develop the procurement community for the Process Automation business while bringing strong Offer Procurement Leader expertise in electronics.

Act as the primary procurement partner for the assigned business, product portfolio, and technology scope.

Translate business and product roadmaps into coordinated procurement strategies, animate Offer Procurement Leaders and Business Buyers across regions, promote early procurement involvement, and secure sourcing execution throughout the offer lifecycle.
Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic Business Partnering


* Serve as the primary procurement representative and single point of contact for the assigned Process Automation League.


* Understand business strategy, product roadmaps, regional needs, and technology trends; translate them into clear procurement priorities.


* Align sourcing strategies with growth, profitability, innovation, sustainability, and lifecycle objectives.


* Anticipate risks and opportunities and provide proactive, fact-based recommendations to business and project stakeholders.


* Promote procurement involvement at the earliest stages of product development and strategic initiatives.

Procurement Community Leadership


* Lead and animate Offer Procurement Leaders and Business Buyers across squads, projects, regions, and product lines.


* Coordinate procurement strategy and execution across the project portfolio, regardless of location.


* Drive engagement, collaboration, standardization, reuse, and best-practice sharing across the community.


* Coach and mentor procurement contributors, strengthen capabilities, and identify future resource and competency needs with Procurement Chapter Leaders.


* Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, innovation, and leadership without direct authority.

Offer and Project Procurement Leadership


* Own or oversee procurement for complex, international new-product-development and offer-lifecycle projects involving critical electronic technologies.


* Shape product architecture early by contributing to Make-or-Buy decisions and challenging design choices for competitiveness, scalability, manufacturability, and resilience.


* Act as the bridge between R&D and the supplier market, aligning ...