Job Purpose & Scope
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Procurement Manager to lead and manage procurement activities in alignment with Group policies. The role is responsible for driving strategic sourcing, ensuring reliable supply, and leveraging information system management—while upholding Safety, Health, Environment (SHE) and quality standards—to enhance business competitiveness and efficiency.
Key Result Areas
- Ensure all procurement activities are transparent, compliant with Group policy, and meet statutory requirements.
- Lead, strategize, and manage departmental functions while influencing stakeholders to achieve business objectives.
- Drive value creation and efficiency improvements.
- Oversee contracts and vendor management to maximize value and safeguard business interests.
- Support and manage the annual budgeting process.
- Deliver high-quality and timely periodic reports.
Key Responsibilities
- Regularly review and update procurement processes to align with Group policies and statutory requirements.
- Challenge stakeholders to distinguish between essential and desirable needs to optimize benefits.
- Identify improvement areas, implement corrective actions, and ensure accountability.
- Leverage Group synergies to maximize competitive advantage.
- Conduct thorough analysis to recommend strategies, evaluate implications, and support decision-making.
- Manage contracts and risks to ensure supply security and minimize exposure.
- Lead and contribute to regional and local cross-functional projects.
- Maintain transparent, professional, and productive relationships with vendors.
- Coach, support, and motivate subordinates while monitoring their performance.
- Ensure procurement information systems are well-maintained and updated.
Professional Skills & Personal Competencies
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field.
- Strong proficiency in English (written and spoken).
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in procurement (Materials and Engineering/Projects).
- Proven expertise in contract and bidding management.
- Solid background in supplier management and strategic negotiation.
- At least 3 years’ managerial experience.
Essential Competencies
- Strong leadership with results-oriented mindset.
- Excellent planning, organizing, and execution skills.
- Skilled negotiator with strategic focus.
- Sharp analytical skills with ability to prioritize effectively.
- Accountable, proactive, and constructively challenges the status quo.
- Strong presentation and communication skills across all levels.
- Awareness of global influences including commodities, politics, economics, and markets.
- Good understanding of technical and design requirements.
- Independent, ethical, and professional with transparent stakeholder management.
Desirable Competencies
- Experience in commercial and international trade.
- International sourcing exposure.
What We Do
We release the natural power of stone to enrich modern living.
ROCKWOOL Group is a focused industrial company with leading positions in insulation, acoustic ceilings and horticultural growing media based on proprietary stone wool technology. We harness the properties that nature has given us to create products for quality living.
Our products touch most aspects of everyday life. We offer carefully designed, innovative sustainable solutions for your comfort, safety and for the benefit of the environment.
ROCKWOOL Group's business portfolio consists of:
* ROCKWOOL® insulation solutions for buildings.
* ROCKWOOL® technical insulation solutions to both industry, marine and offshore.
* ROCKWOOL® core solutions tailor made stone wool products to be integrated into finished systems.
* Rockfon® acoustic ceilings and wall solutions.
* Rockpanel® cladding material.
* Grodan® growing media solutions for plants.
* Lapinus® solutions for applications such as friction, water management, tracks, coatings, gaskets.
At ROCKWOOL Group, we are committed to enriching the lives of everyone who experiences our product solutions. Our expertise is perfectly suited to tackle many of today’s biggest sustainability and development challenges, from energy consumption and noise pollution to fire resilience, water scarcity and flooding. Our range of products reflects the diversity of the world’s needs, supporting our stakeholders in reducing their own carbon footprint along the way.
Stone wool is a versatile material and forms the basis of all our businesses. With around 12,200 colleagues in 40 countries, we are the world leader in stone wool solutions, from building insulation to acoustic ceilings, external cladding systems to horticultural solutions, engineered fibres for industrial use to insulation for the process industry and marine & offshore
