Director Global Procurement Packaging

About the role

As Director Global Procurement Packaging, you own one of Beiersdorf's largest spend areas, around €800 million across Europe, the Americas and Asia, with a team of 20 packaging professionals. Every NIVEA can, Eucerin bottle, cap, tube and label passes through your team's hands. The role reports to the Director Global Procurement Directs and combines commercial weight, technical depth and enterprise visibility.

Key responsibilities

• Own the global Packaging Procurement strategy and the performance of the entire spend, supporting the Win with Care and #BEAT agenda.
• Drive cost out of the packaging system and value into products through value engineering, tendering, supplier development and a project pipeline that affects company EBIT.
• Lead the sustainable transformation of the packaging assortment (recycled plastics, aluminum, design-to-sustainability) together with R&D, Operations and the brands.
• Improve supply security by reducing single sources and strengthening supplier relationships so the company can survive supply crises.
• Promote standardization, digitalization and automation of buying, and challenge what suppliers think is possible.
• Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing global team.

Required profile

• Master's degree in business, supply chain, engineering or another relevant field, with several years of leadership experience in a relevant industry.
• Proven leadership: building teams, developing talent, performing in a fast-paced, complex environment.
• Stakeholder craft: connecting and aligning people from shopfloor to Board, internally and externally.
• Strategic drive: spotting opportunities early and acting on them.
• Fluent English; other languages are a plus.

A strong plus is direct material procurement expertise (packaging, raw materials or third-party manufacturing) and a genuine curiosity for technology and manufacturing, since the role lives in supplier plants as well as meeting rooms.