Director Global Procurement Packaging

Your Mission Every NIVEA can, every Eucerin bottle, every cap, tube and label in our products worldwide passes through the hands of your team. As Director Global Procurement Packaging you own one of Beiersdorf's largest spend areas – approx. €800 million across Europe, the Americas and Asia – with a team of 20 packaging professionals. You shape technology and cost strategy for more than 10 packaging categories, you negotiate with the leading packaging suppliers in the world, and you sit at the table where Beiersdorf's sustainability and innovation agenda is decided.

• The strategy: Full accountability for the global Packaging Procurement strategy and the performance of the entire spend – enabling our Win with Care and #BEAT agenda.
• The value: Driving cost out of our packaging system and value into our products – value engineering, tendering, supplier development and a project pipeline that directly impacts company EBIT.
• The transformation: Steering the sustainable transformation of our packaging assortment (recycled plastics, aluminum, design-to-sustainability) together with R&D, Operations and the brands.
• Resilience: Improving supply security in a volatile world – Reducing single-sources, and developing supplier relationships strong enough to carry us through supply crisis.
• The future: Pushing standardization, digitalization and automation of how we buy – and challenging what our suppliers believe is possible.
• The team: Leading, developing and inspiring a high-performing global team.

• A master's degree in business, supply chain, engineering or another relevant field – and several years of leadership experience in a relevant industry.
• Direct material procurement expertise (packaging, raws or 3PM) is a strong plus – genuine curiosity for technology and manufacturing is a must: this role lives in supplier plants, not only in meeting rooms.
• Proven leadership: you build teams, develop talent, and perform in a fast-paced, complex environment.
• Stakeholder craft: you connect and align from shopfloor to Board, internally and externally.
• Strategic drive: you spot opportunities before they are obvious – and act on them.
• Fluent English; other languages are a plus.