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Global Head of Procurement and Supply Alliances

Global Head of Procurement and Supply Alliances

Jobtailor • Reading, England, United Kingdom
8 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Castrol’s regional procurement teams, ensuring compliant, value‑led delivery across regions.
  • Drive standardisation of procurement practices, controls, and ways of working across the regional organisation.
  • Ensure global category strategies are fit for regional execution, working with global category teams to deliver business value.
  • Strengthen cross‑regional collaboration, business connectivity, execution discipline, and regional procurement capability.
  • Originate, structure, negotiate, and manage strategic partnerships, alliance agreements, joint ventures, investments, divestments, and acquisition opportunities.
  • Build robust business cases for significant Castrol capital investments and deliver material value through alliances, transactions, and commercial partnerships.
  • Drive cost competitiveness, sustainability, resilience, innovation, and business continuity through strategic manufacturing partnerships.
  • Establish clear governance frameworks, performance metrics, and playbooks for strategic partnerships and alliance management.
  • Track value realisation and performance across procurement delivery, alliances, transactions, and third‑party manufacturing arrangements.
  • Partner with Legal, Finance, Procurement, Operations, Technology, Commercial, Strategy, and bp M&A teams to deliver balanced, compliant, and value‑led outcomes.

Requirements

  • Senior procurement, commercial, supply chain, or external partnerships leadership experience in a complex global organisation.
  • Experience leading regional or global procurement teams, including responsibility for procurement delivery, governance, controls, and capability building.
  • Strong understanding of procurement operating models, category execution, supplier management, and regional business partnering.
  • Experience with strategic alliances, joint ventures, equity investments, acquisitions, divestments, or complex commercial partnerships within a supply chain, manufacturing, or industrial environment.
  • Ability to combine commercial judgement with practical operational insight, translating procurement, manufacturing, and supply chain realities into sound partnership and investment decisions.
  • Strong understanding of manufacturing and third‑party production models, including contract manufacturing, packaging, or other manufacturing‑intensive supply chains.
  • Experience gained in FMCG, CPG, consumer goods, or adjacent manufacturing‑led sectors is highly relevant, though candidates from other sectors are welcome where comparable scale, complexity, and commercial leadership can be demonstrated.
  • Executive‑level presence, with experience influencing senior leaders and operating effectively in complex, global, matrixed organisations.
  • Strong people leadership capability, including experience building, coaching, and leading high‑performing geographically distributed teams.
  • Strong commercial judgement, negotiation capability, financial acumen, and understanding of governance, compliance, risk management, valuation, capital allocation, and value delivery.
  • Master’s degree or equivalent professional qualification preferred.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading procurement teams and managing strategic partnerships within complex global organizations, focusing on governance, compliance, and value delivery. Possesses strong commercial judgement and operational insight to drive cost competitiveness and innovation in supply chain and manufacturing environments.

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