At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.
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MRO Sourcing Specialist
Procurement | Central Europe
📍 Location: Primarily Wroclaw (Poland), also acceptable Siewierz or Warsaw, Wrocław (Poland) or Prague (Czech Republic)
📄 Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract (following a 3-month probation period) with the opportunity to become permanent
⏰ Working Hours: 40 hours per week
🌍 Scope: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia & Hungary
✈️ Travel: Occasional travel to supplier and Air Products sites
Join Air Products and Reimagine What's PossibleWe are looking for an experienced MRO Sourcing Specialist to join our Central Europe Procurement team. In this role, you will design and execute sourcing strategies for maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) materials and services, ensuring the business has reliable supply, competitive commercial terms, and strong supplier partnerships. You will work closely with stakeholders across Central Europe and contribute directly to operational excellence, cost optimisation, supplier performance, and procurement transformation initiatives.
You will become part of an international Procurement team supporting Air Products operations across the region and managing strategic spend with significant business impact.
What You'll Do
As our MRO Sourcing Specialist, you will:
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives and operational needs.
- Lead sourcing events including RFQs, RFPs, supplier evaluations, and market analysis.
- Manage supplier relationships, negotiate contracts, and drive supplier performance improvements. Partner with Operations and Maintenance teams as a trusted procurement advisor and key point of contact.
- Analyse market trends, benchmarking data, supplier risks, and commercial opportunities to maximise value. Lead initiatives to reduce supply risk, improve procurement processes, and support business productivity objectives.
- Manage commercial aspects of supplier agreements and support resolution of supplier performance or contractual issues.
- Ensure compliance with Air Products procurement policies, procedures, and contractual standards.
What You'll Bring
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience developing and leading sourcing strategies in an industrial, manufacturing, engineering, utilities, chemical, energy, public sector, or similar environment.
- Strong sourcing, negotiation, supplier management, and commercial skills.
- Experience managing competitive bidding processes and market analysis activities. Proven stakeholder management skills and confidence in influencing internal and external partners.
- Ability to work independently while contributing effectively as part of a team.
- Fluent English and Polish language skills.
- Valid driving licence.
Preferred
- Czech language skills.
- SAP ERP experience. Experience supporting operations, maintenance, industrial services, engineering projects, MRO categories, or technical procurement activities.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives or organisational improvement projects.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to influence procurement strategy across Central Europe.
- Exposure to a broad range of industrial sourcing categories and suppliers.
- Collaborative international working environment.
- Comprehensive onboarding and development support.
Pay Transparency Statement
We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices. Compensation decisions are based on objective, role-related criteria such as experience, education, skills, and assessed proficiencies.
Each role has an established pay range. Individual offers are determined within this range. The applicable pay range will be shared with you during the introductory call.
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Please note that this vacancy will remain advertised until the recruitment process is completed and an offer is made to the selected candidate. Until then, the job advertisement may be automatically refreshed or re-posted on the platforms where it was originally published.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status.
At Air Products, we work in an environment where inclusion is our culture and each person knows they belong and matter.
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Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Experience developing and leading sourcing strategies in an industrial, manufacturing, engineering, utilities, chemical, energy, public sector, or similar environment
- Strong sourcing, negotiation, supplier management, and commercial skills
- Experience managing competitive bidding processes and market analysis activities
- Proven stakeholder management skills and confidence influencing internal and external partners
- Ability to work independently and contribute effectively as part of a team
- Fluent English and Polish language skills
- Valid driving licence
- Czech language skills
- SAP ERP experience
- Experience supporting operations, maintenance, industrial services, engineering projects, MRO categories, or technical procurement activities
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives or organisational improvement projects
What We Do
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years focused on serving energy, environmental, and emerging markets. The Company has two growth pillars driven by sustainability. Air Products’ base business provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food. The Company also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest clean hydrogen projects supporting the transition to low- and zero-carbon energy in the heavy-duty transportation and industrial sectors. Additionally, Air Products is the world leader in the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment, and provides turbomachinery, membrane systems and cryogenic containers globally. The Company had fiscal 2023 sales of $12.6 billion from operations in approximately 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of about $65 billion. Approximately 23,000 passionate, talented and committed employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products’ higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and reimagine what's possible to address the challenges facing customers, communities, and the world.
