Procurement

• Drive the global purchasing contracts and agreements strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and supporting long-term organizational success
• Develop best-in-class contract standards, terminology, and governance frameworks
• Lead the digital transformation of contract management, including AI-driven solutions and process simplification
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Sales, and Procurement stakeholders to develop robust contract solutions that balance risk, value creation, and operational needs
• Provide expert negotiation support to global purchasing teams, advising on contractual language, commercial trade-offs, risk mitigation, and financial implications
• Establish and monitor KPIs to ensure contract compliance, process excellence, and sustainable business value
• Lead cross-functional projects to implement and optimize purchasing documentation and agreement processes
• Strengthen data-driven decision-making across Purchasing, Logistics, and Supply Chain functions
• Identify and mitigate supplier, commercial, financial, sustainability and geopolitical risks
• Translate sustainability trends and regulatory requirements into supplier expectations and sourcing strategies

Head of Global Purchasing Governance – Contracts

• Define supplier strategy, including management and optimization of supplier panels
• Lead negotiations and allocate needs to specific suppliers
• Negotiate terms and conditions and transmit information to Procurement
• Manage claims
• Perform commercial sourcing management, including data analysis and negotiation support
• Perform purchasing activities where applicable
• Lead and manage medium to large teams, including direct and second-line reports
• Develop expertise within the function and provide professional or thought leadership
• Lead functional teams or projects with moderate to high resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity
• Present business solutions to functional leaders
• Communicate complex messages and negotiate internally and with external partners, vendors, or customers
• Influence policy, operating guidelines, budgets, and delivery within the function
• Lead others in finding creative solutions to complex problems
• Evaluate information quality and question conflicting data for analysis
• Use internal and external resources to support decision-making

Sourcing Leader

• Negotiate with dedicated providers according to specific policies
• Achieve the best contractual conditions while ensuring internal customer satisfaction
• Interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services
• Use industry trends to inform decision-making
• Define supplier strategy, including management and optimization of supplier panels
• Lead negotiations and allocate needs to specific suppliers
• Negotiate terms and conditions and transmit information to Procurement
• Manage claims
• Perform commercial sourcing management, including data analysis and negotiation support
• Potentially perform purchasing activities
• Lead medium to large teams, including direct and second-line reports
• Attract and retain talent and develop expertise within the function
• Lead functional teams or projects with moderate to high resource requirements, risk, or complexity
• Present business solutions to functional-area leaders
• Communicate complex messages and negotiate internally and with external partners, vendors, or customers
• Influence policy, operating guidelines, peers, budgets, and business units
• Lead others in finding creative solutions to complex problems
• Evaluate information quality, question conflicting data, and use internal and external resources to make decisions

• Act as an interface between Procurement, Engineering, and R&D teams
• Drive procurement knowledge, including market, supplier, and external intelligence, into the development process
• Optimize engineering cost, quality, and technology
• Translate engineering requests into procurement parameters for execution
• Manage ordering and on-time delivery of prototype parts directly with suppliers for each project
• Align prototype procurement with critical project development and testing plans
• Manage procurement Gate Model activities
• Arrange project procurement gate meetings as required
• Create and maintain project procurement documents
• Estimate initial cost and quality and achieve product cost and quality targets
• Optimize cost and quality throughout development projects
• Collaborate with R&D and Engineering project teams, local Procurement teams, and division Procurement Category Managers

Procurement jobs in Italy

Head of Global Purchasing Governance – Contracts

Sourcing Leader

Sourcing Leader

Procurement Engineering Specialist