Head of Procurement NPP AOA

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Position Snapshot Nestlé Purina Petcare Changi Business Park, Singapore Full Time Position Summary At Nestlé Purina Petcare, we are passionately committed to enriching the lives of pets and the people who love them. Our dedication to pets, and their owners, directs everything we do, every day, everywhere. Today, Nestlé Purina Petcare is one of the world’s leading pet care companies. We offer an attractive and dynamic work environment with a high focus on developing people. The NPP AOA Head of Procurement role serves as the key Procurement leader and business partner for NPP AOA, combining the strategic responsibilities of a Head of Procurement with the operational and stakeholder management aspects of a Regional Procurement Business Partner. The incumbent will drive regional procurement strategy, provide sourcing expertise, and act as the primary link between business objectives and procurement category strategies across at-market, above-market, and Nestlé in the Market (NiM) teams. Working closely with regional and local stakeholders, the role ensures effective collaboration across procurement networks, promotes strong governance and compliance standards, and leads sustainability and continuous improvement initiatives to deliver value creation and cost optimization. The position is responsible for overseeing procurement activities across the NPP AOA region, ensuring alignment between local market requirements and regional business priorities. The successful candidate will partner with category teams and procurement support functions to facilitate information flow, drive strategy execution, monitor performance against business goals, and continuously assess opportunities for improvement. The role will represent regional business interests to procurement leadership while helping shape sourcing strategies for key categories, including Animal By-Products and strategic ingredients relevant to the Petcare business. In addition, the role provides leadership and people management responsibilities, overseeing a team of procurement professionals responsible for strategic sourcing and category management activities. The incumbent will be responsible for developing team capability, driving high performance, and ensuring effective delivery of procurement strategies that support business growth, supply security, cost competitiveness, and long-term value creation across the region. A day in the life of a Head of Procurement & Regional Procurement Business Partner, NPP AOA... Understand BU/Function strategies and priorities, translate them into needs and integrate the information into procurement category strategies on procurement across Hub and At market (NiM) and NPP AOA Animal by-products teams. Ensure this information is provided to all critical levels of Category leadership. Involved at early stage of NPDI project development within the NPP AOA market level work. Understand innovation and renovation plans for NPP AOA market/Regional level and interface with any other functional specific groups developing strategy and supplier needs within NiM, NPP AOA, and NPD. Ensure these strategies are effectively represented and incorporated into category and SRM work. Understand category strategies and sourcing plans and represent these to the NPP AOA market levels as well as NPP AOA leadership at relevant stages throughout the category process. Ensure category strategies and sourcing plans are understood by the NPP AOA market levels as well as NPP AOA leadership, and effects are debated and discussed with Hub teams/local teams as required. Feedback to the NPP AOA Level leadership supply market evolution and industry outlooks, forward pricing and hedging as and when applicable. Monitor and manage the delivery of value to the NPP AOA/NPP AOA markets' leadership and provide focus, assignments, and motivation, support and coaching to procurement to understand and deliver NPP AOA/NPP AOA markets' needs. Ensure the Integration of NPP AOA/NPP AOA markets level business needs into procurement category strategies considering market evolution and expected innovations. Agree scope of roles and activities for Procurement Support indirect line reports (as these will reside within respective NiM's). Align on team goals and objectives and provide feedback to the local Procurement Support Team with demonstrable, agreed service level of response to changing requirements and project environs. Ensure all actions are delivered for all NiM procurement support tasking, and work with GC Leads and local HOP to ensure local tasking is appropriately prioritized. Analyze performance and skill gaps and agree development requirements and training plans. Develop procurement support skills within the Function. Pass on lessons learned to all other BP leads At Market and HOPs as appropriate What will make you successful... Experience as a Manager in Procurement function. Demonstrated skills of entrepreneurship Demonstrated the ability to successfully lead projects. Transformed successfully business needs into procurement strategy through management of purchasing for at least one spend category. Recognized as value adder in key business unit meetings. Represented successfully procurement in key meetings (i.e. Mancom, business units meetings, new product launching) Global business understanding (for above market role) Cross -functional experience