About Chain IQ
Chain IQ is an independent global indirect procurement company providing strategic, tactical, and operational procurement services.
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Chain IQ operates from six main centers and 14 offices worldwide.
The team of experts works to transform procurement within an organization using market knowledge and insights supported by innovative technology to drive procurement efficiencies.
They apply the latest risk, sustainability, and social responsibility practices to strengthen procurement resilience.
Chain IQ's approach to ESG supports ethical operations, business standards, and biodiversity while minimizing environmental impact.
Your Responsibilities
You will lead the design, build, operations, and continuous improvement of various digital procurement and marketplace solutions as our head of digital procurement solutions.
You are a key contributor executing our Chain IQ Strategy 2030 aiming for achieving a market-leading digital procurement position.
You will engage closely with clients, suppliers, and technology partners to create top-notch digital procurement and marketplace solutions.
Curation of content and supplier network, including necessary sales activities, are core tasks.
You will collaborate with category managers to fine-tune specific category strategies, client engagement managers to sell and implement procurement and marketplace solutions, and the digital/IT team to set up and improve digital procurement offerings.
You will lead a team of procure-to-pay and catalog experts, report directly to our group CIO, and be a member of the CIO leadership team.
You will combine years of proven P2P/marketplace process and digital solutions expertise with excellent networking skills and a never-ending quest to create innovative digital procurement and marketplace solutions through solid engineering practices.
* You lead the creation, building, implementation, operation, and ongoing development of procurement & marketplace solutions.
* You activate, build, and maintain high-quality business relationships with clients, executives, business partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders in relevant markets.
* You convince high-quality partners to join a great procurement and marketplace solution and build lively professional digital procurement solutions that add value to all stakeholders.
Your Profile
We are looking for a senior, experienced personality with deep knowledge in indirect procurement and broad expertise in P2P/marketplace processes and digital solutions.
You like to take responsibility and work independently by applying a very structured, solution- and implementation-oriented approach.
You value teamwork, have a winning personality, and a well-established, proven c-level network.
You have excellent communication skills and are successful in motivating and convincing partners to join our procurement & marketplace offering.
You possess strong intercultural competence and experience with business relationships, specifically with Romania and India.
* BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
* Excellent knowledge of indirect procurement, P2P/marketplace processes, and digital solutions.
* Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices.
* Excellent intercultural competence and a very winning personality.
* Experience in leading and working in global teams to achieve organizational goals.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to present complex issues to non-technical users and to influence change.
We offer a first-class benefits package to all employees.
Come and join Chain IQ and become part of an innovative, inspiring, and high-performing team of entrepreneurs who are globally connected and locally anchored.