Freelance Procurement Director

Quanta part of QCS Staffing; Stuttgart; Vor Ort; EUR 100.000 - 125.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A global pharmaceutical company in Stuttgart is seeking an experienced Freelance Procurement Director for a 12-month contract. This role involves leading procurement on a major CAPEX project, ensuring alignment with internal stakeholders, and maintaining proactive communication. The ideal candidate will have a background in procurement, engineering, and possess strong analytical and project management skills. Proficiency in MS Office and SAP is essential, along with fluency in English and German.

Qualifikationen

• Demonstrated ability to exceed expectations on deliverables.
• Prior experience with controllership, product costing, and data stewardship.
• Technical proficiency in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SAP.

Aufgaben

• Lead commercial evaluation and advise on incoming bids.
• Align with internal stakeholders like legal and finance.
• Manage procurement for complex CAPEX projects.

Kenntnisse

Opportunities recognition

Excellent communication

Project Management

Analytical skills

Commercial skills

Fluent in English and German

Ausbildung

Degree in Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

SAP

Jobbeschreibung

Freelance Procurement Director - Pharmaceuticals - 12-Month Contract - Stuttgart

A global pharmaceutical company require an experienced Procurement Director to lead the function on a major project.

Reporting into the Global Procurement Team, this individual will be responsible for managing the procurement for a highly complex CAPEX project with corporate organisational interface and alignment of global and local standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the commercial evaluation and advice on incoming bids (EPCM, equipment, Engineering suppliers).
• Internal alignment with internal stakeholders (e.g.) legal, SME’s and finance.
• Act as escalation point on ongoing pending suppliers.
• Support the technical SME in commercial questions.
• Emphasising proactive, systematic approach to detect and avert delays to contractual milestones agreed upon.
• Participation in project meetings to provide updates and status of documents submittals.
• Ensure that updates are provided to all relevant stakeholders on any initiated mitigations on catch‑up and improvements.
• Review status reports for any potential problems and initiate mitigating actions for potential risk areas.
• Visits field/suppliers on a regular basis, aligns with engineering and other stakeholders for actual status and progress (and get a view behind scene) throughout the project.
• Reporting and updates on own packages.
• Make and drive some RFQ’s (strategy, Tender, Evaluations negotiations and contracting) on client’s own contracts.
• Meticulous file keeper, lead a procurement team and associated support functions using the RFQ tool used by the project.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to recognise opportunities, strongly influence the setting of direction and exceed expectations on deliverables.
• Prior experience with controllership, product costing, and data stewardship
• Technical proficiency with MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SAP.
• Excellent communication/facilitation and influencing skills.
• Project Management skills
• Analytical and organisational skills
• Project planning and implementation skills
• Overall manufacturing business knowledge
• Demonstrated commercial skills
• Experience delivering capital projects > $million
• Degree level of education in Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Business related field or Degree level education in any discipline with relevant experience
• Exemplification of high integrity, fiscal responsibility, and business ownership.
• Fluent in English and German

If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!