Global Procurement Director - Indirect Procurement

Join us at Wavin : Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for good enough when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments.

And where is our help most needed? The places we live in : cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater.

It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a to join our global team. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Reporting to the Director Global Procurement, the Global Procurement Director - Indirect Procurement will be responsible for the Global Category sourcing strategy for Indirect Procurement (Logistics & Supply Chain, Services and CAPEX).

Deliver benefits, including top-line and bottom-line value contributions associated with the sub-categories, for which they are accountable.

Foster Global supplier relationships collaborating with senior stakeholders in all functional areas, including the B&I Leadership Team, and BUs globally to deliver benefits across multiple spend categories.

Lead, manage, and develop a team of regional and global Category Managers responsible for Logistics & Supply Chain, Services and CAPEX across the B&I Business Group.

Build and maintain close relationships with stakeholders to optimize value, mitigate risk and manage the innovation process with suppliers to align on long-term strategic priorities for Orbia.

The role

• Manage, coach & develop the Global Indirect Procurement Category Team to work efficiently and ensure all KPIs are fulfilled (Safety, Savings, Contract & Code of Conduct Compliance, Vendor Management, EcoVadis).
• Advancing business process through leading class standards implementation.
• Delivering high value to top line growth and bottom-line value contribution (savings).
• Develop the Global sourcing strategy and policies, focusing on the benefits achievement and plans related to all Indirect related sub-categories.
• Continuous drive for optimising working capital, costs, and service. Oversee and deliver annual value improvements in the relevant sub-categories.
• Develop and manage relationships with key groups of senior business stakeholders.
• Managing Key supplier relationships through robust vendor management to drive continuous improvement.
• Contract compliance management for global Indirect Procurement initiatives, including regular reviews and supplier assessments.
• Support and Business Unit Procurement teams to deliver best practice and knowledge sharing.
• Develop and nurture strong collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

The profile

• People leadership in an international / global context.
• Working with and leading virtual teams.
• Effective and proactive communication across all mediums to a wide audience including c-suite.
• Proficient influencer and negotiator.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Inventory management experience in a high-volume fast paced environment.
• Demonstrated success facilitating and influencing positive change with internal business partners; must have a strong customer service orientation.
• Experience leading global tenders and managing complex negotiations.
• Effective leadership qualities with global perspective
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to act autonomously, managing resources and priorities.
• Cross-functional business experience, with understanding of procurement and finance.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Expertise related to specific categories (CAPEX, Services, Logistics & Supply Chain).
• Strong problem solving and analytical expertise.
• Project management skills.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company.

We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world.

Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day.

is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry.

Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens.

Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes.

Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network.

Our key commercial brands are : Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia a company driven by a shared purpose : to advance life around the world.

Orbia operates in several sectors including : Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura).

These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions.

Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv.

The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.