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Job Description

Global Business Unit Overview:

Pentair Food & Beverage is a Global Technology Leader in the Food & Beverage and Industrial Gas market. We combine innovative technology with deep process expertise to offer solutions which are Sustainable, Secure and Reduce their cost of ownership and exceed customers’ expectations.

Within Pentair’s Industrial Solutions business unit, the product category ‘Sustainable Gas Solutions (SGS)’ is committed to minimizing climate change with leading renewable energy and carbon capture solutions. Whether CO2 Recovery and Extraction for carbon utilization and storage or Biogas Upgrading into Biomethane and CO2, our technologies help our customers to lower their carbon footprint and become part of the circular economy.

Currently we sell and service our products in more than 150 countries around the world, with major sites in Venlo/NL, Fredericia/DK, Daytona Beach FL/USA, and Ningbo/China. Our clients in agriculture, food & beverage, waste-to-energy, and industrial gases benefit from our strong brands Haffmans and Union.

We have an opportunity for an SGS Sourcing Leader to join our team. You will be reporting directly to the Industrial Solutions Group Leader and be responsible for the SGS Sourcing activities for Direct Materials across all spend categories. Your team will execute strategic business and industry engagement to establish a reliable, resilient, and effective supply base. You will also lead an organization tasked with delivering on end-to-end targets by driving activities including, but not limited to, Regional Category Management (where applicable), Supplier Management, Sourcing, Contracting, Innovation, and Talent Management. Further, you will be accountable for delivering quality, delivery and financial targets, including cost and working capital improvement. You must embrace agile ways of working and will be accountable for developing the team and recruiting world class talent, being a critical partner of the Leadership Team of the SGS business.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Act as a primary sourcing interface for the General Manager and a single point of contact for the SGS Business, build and maintain strong professional relationships with team members
• Coordinate and coach a multidisciplinary Sourcing team including strategic (Commodity Buyers) and operational (Project Buyers) members
• Create and deploy sourcing harmonized processes to optimize and support the team work
• Develop a multi-year sourcing strategy for the SGS business that takes into consideration market challenges and ensures that quality, delivery, and cost are optimized
• Agree on business imperatives, prioritize sourcing projects and business support, align on yearly targets and capture them in the transformation plan
• Define the financial path to capture it accurately in the budget and quarterly/monthly reviews
• Achieve material productivity, ensure cost avoidance, and implement strategic objectives (working capital optimization, supply base reduction, contract coverage, POC sales etc.) according to agreed targets
• Supervise the development and the execution of sourcing commodity strategies
• Support the product standardization effort
• Report on Sourcing specific KPI’s during MBR’s, business reviews etc.
• Regularly communicate on opportunities, challenges, and market updates
  
  

Key Qualifications

• Relevant study (minimum Bachelor level), Business or Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years relevant working experience in Procurement, Direct Materials
• Strong influencer, determined negotiator combining strategic agility and analytical skills
• High energy, Strategic & positive thinker, Team player able to deal with cross-cultural environments
• International business experience; ability to work well with various international cultures
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, other European languages are a plus
• Preparedness to travel for work
  
  

About Pentair

At Pentair, you will work alongside passionate problem-solvers who are committed to the future and are focused on creating a healthier world for all. Throughout our 120 global locations, our values guide us as we create innovative solutions for the world’s water challenges. We bring water to life!

Pentair is an Equal Opportunity Employee

Diversity And Inclusion

With our expanding global presence, cross-cultural insight and competence are essential for our ongoing success. We believe that a diverse workforce contributes different perspectives and creative ideas that enable us to continue to improve every day. Race, gender, ethnicity, country of origin, age, personal style, sexual orientation, physical ability, religion, life experiences and many more factors contribute to this diversity.

We take ongoing action to improve the diversity of our workforce by:

• Ensuring leadership involvement and ownership
• Attracting and retaining diverse talent at all levels
• Fostering a globally aware, inclusive culture
• Ensuring our practices are fair and non-discriminatory