Supply Chain Leader - EMEA

Otis Elevator Co.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading elevator manufacturing company is seeking a Supply Chain Leader to manage supply chain operations across EMEA. This full-time role involves overseeing procurement, leading a team, and working closely with stakeholders to meet customer needs. The ideal candidate has a degree, with significant leadership experience and proficiency in Microsoft tools. This is an opportunity to contribute to a renowned company with a global impact.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Exposure to global supply chain strategies

Opportunity for career development

Qualifications

• 1+ years experience with MBA or 5+ years with BA/BS.
• Proven ability to lead and manage a group effectively.
• Experience with cross-functional teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Provide a single point of contact for EMEA supply chain topics.
• Lead the EMEA supply chain activities and supervise a dedicated team.
• Implement processes and KPIs for supply chain customer service.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving

Multilingual

Education

MBA/MA/MS or BA/BS

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Access

Global JDE

Job description

Date Posted: 2025-08-01

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Otis Vantage London, 10th Floor, Great West Road, Brentford, TW8 9AG, UK.

Overview

Title: Supply Chain Leader EMEA
Location: UK, London or Leicester.

Otis is growing and is looking for a Supply Chain Leader to cover EMEA OU. This full-time role involves both leading supply chain matters within the Operating Unit and undertaking non-catalogue local procurement (when not managed by Global / EMEA Sourcing Teams). Works with the part time Supply Chain Country Business Partners in the associated Countries.

Responsibilities

• Provide single point of contact across EMEA for all supply chain topics, including but not limited to savings plan and LE, payment term initiatives, and other supply chain initiatives. Work closely with OU and Country leadership to understand Customer needs and ensure delivery to expectations.
• Identify and lead the EMEA supply chain activities: supervise a team of 5 dedicated business partner leads and country-level business partners, ensuring prompt sourcing, technical support, and competitive procurement of non-catalog items with visibility, control, and savings.
• Identify and execute processes and KPIs for supply chain customer service activities across OU/OA, including stakeholder engagement, feedback to category teams, savings alignment with local finance/leadership, local catalogue support, pay term analysis, Works Council support, supplier performance, contract loading, renewals analysis, and local contracts with legal/local language support.
• Identify and implement processes and KPIs for local non-catalog spend management, including low-value procurement, local language negotiations, creating local agreements/price lists, identifying new suppliers, and driving standard work for sourcing analysts; work to increase catalog coverage (target: 80% of parts cataloged).
• Provide leadership for the GBS team in EMEA managing Source to Pay, monitoring KPIs and supporting escalations.
• Develop and execute an outsource GBS solution for tail spend management across the field and indirect EMEA supply chain.
• Lead the EMEA centralized support platform “Service Now” including development, maintenance, reporting and analysis tasks.
• Support deployment of purchasing tools locally (e.g., FRS catalogue tool, Market Dojo e-tender tool, IDOT supplier onboarding tool) and participate in testing, deployment, change management and training.
• Collaborate with sourcing teams to convert local non-catalog purchases into standard catalogs.

What’s on offer

• Be part of a large supply chain function with exposure to global improvement strategies and plans for best-in-class supply chain solutions.
• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to learn from subject matter experts and help design new digital supply chain solutions.

Key requirements

Education

MBA/MA/MS degree with 1+ years of experience; BA/BS degree with 5+ years of experience.

Experience

• Proven ability to lead and manage a group to achieve quality, cost, and service level targets; set challenging goals with clear expectations and provide coaching.
• Proven ability to work across teams and align objectives; take initiative in serving stakeholders.
• Ability to own challenges, define problems, and reprioritize as needed to reach objectives.
• Experience with Global JDE and related Finance systems (K2), Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Forms.
• Ability to work with cross-functional groups (Field Operations, Engineering, Supplier Quality) to meet business goals.
• Must be able to work in and support a team environment.
• Multilingual is a plus.

Apply today to join us and build what’s next!

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Otis is the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, and service company. We move 2 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.2 million customer units worldwide, the industry’s largest service portfolio.

You may recognize our products in iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa, and the Petronas Twin Towers. We are 69,000 people strong, including engineers, digital technology experts, sales, and technicians, across more than 200 countries and territories. We are a diverse, global team with a proven legacy of innovation driving fast-moving, high-performance results.

When you join Otis, you become part of an innovative global industry leader with a resilient business model. You’ll belong to a diverse, trusted, and caring community where your contributions and the skills you gain will keep us connected and on the cutting edge.

We provide opportunities, training, and resources to build leadership and capabilities in Sales, Field, Engineering and Major Projects. Our Employee Scholar Program sponsors colleagues to pursue degrees or certification programs.

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