Director Procurement Emea (M/F/D)

Linde Gas Ab; Woking; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Linde Gas AB is seeking a Director Procurement EMEA to lead performance across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and drive sustainable savings, productivity and spend under management.

You will define EMEA category strategies, evolve the operating model, deploy AI-driven procurement tools, and build high-performing teams, aligning Finance, Operations, Corporate Procurement and Digital functions to deliver value.

Qualifications

• Fifteen+ years in Procurement/Supply Chain leadership with transformations.
• Strong strategic and commercial mindset with P&L impact.
• Deep expertise in category management, sourcing and supplier management.
• Proven AI-enabled procurement implementations with measurable impact.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement performance across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
• Define and execute EMEA-wide category strategies for leverage and standardization.
• Evolve the EMEA Procurement Operating Model across countries and categories.
• Champion deployment of AI-driven procurement solutions and analytics.
• Develop high-performing category management and procurement operations teams.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Category management

Strategic sourcing

Supplier management

Procurement performance management

AI-enabled procurement

Advanced analytics

Digital procurement platforms

Stakeholder management

Leadership of large teams

Tools

AI-enabled procurement tools

Intelligent sourcing tools

Analytics platforms

Job description

Director Procurement EMEA (m/f/d)

Any major Linde location within EMEA | req32544

What you will enjoy doing

• You will lead Procurement performance across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and drive measurable improvements in sustainable savings, cost avoidance, productivity, and spend under management while creating significant business value
  Furthermore, you will define and execute EMEA-wide category strategies, increasing leverage and standardization while maintaining strong business alignment.
• You will lead the continuous evolution of the EMEA Procurement Operating Model, designing scalable structures, governance frameworks, and operating processes that drive consistency, efficiency, and value creation across multiple countries and Procurement categories.
• In this role, you will champion the deployment of digital, automation, and AI-driven Procurement solutions, leveraging advanced analytics, intelligent sourcing tools, and next-generation procure-to -pay capabilities to transform decision-making, user experience, and business performance / procurement performance at scale.
• Moreover, you will develop and inspire high-performing category management and Procurement operations teams, fostering expertise, accountability, collaboration, and a strong results-oriented culture
• As the senior Procurement leader across the region, you will align business units, Finance, Operations, Corporate Procurement, and Digital and Artificial Intelligence teams around shared value delivery priorities while strengthening supplier performance, resilience, global sourcing opportunities, and risk management

What makes you great

• With more than fifteen years of Procurement and Supply Chain leadership experience, you bring a proven track record of delivering large-scale Procurement transformations and category management programs within complex multinational organizations
• Your strong strategic and commercial mindset, combined with a clear understanding of profit and loss impact, enables you to create measurable value and support sustainable business performance
• Deep expertise in category management, strategic sourcing, supplier management, and Procurement performance management allows you to identify opportunities, optimize spend, and deliver lasting results
• You have a proven track record within the past five years of implementing AI-enabled procurement processes, advanced analytics solutions, and digital procurement platforms, with demonstrated and measurable business impact.
• Through outstanding stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, you build alignment across business, Finance, Operations, and executive leadership teams to accelerate decision-making and value delivery
• Leveraging extensive experience with digital Procurement platforms, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence enabled Procurement capabilities, you drive innovation and continuously improve Procurement outcomes
• Ideally, you have led large-scale organizations of 50+ employees with accountability for business performance and experience leading through managers and senior leadership teams with evidence of building high- performing teams, strengthening capabilities, and improving organizational performance.
• Additionally, you inspire and develop high-performing teams across multiple countries and functions while demonstrating a pragmatic, results-oriented leadership style characterized by strong ownership and accountability

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.For more information about the company and its products and services, please visit linde.com

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you're looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.
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