Job description
As the Strategic Procurement Lead, you will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing procurement and supply chain setup that supports safe, efficient, and reliable operations. You will shape regional processes, define strategic priorities, and ensure alignment with global standards, business objectives, and customer expectations. This role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact from day one by strengthening supplier performance, driving cost and cash improvements, improving resilience across the supply chain, and helping to establish a future-ready operating model for Transformer Services in North America. You will work closely with business leadership and cross-functional teams in a dynamic, international environment.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Define and manage effective interfaces across operational procurement, strategic procurement, and local logistics to ensure smooth collaboration and accountability.
- Own and deliver the Procurement & Supply Chain strategy for the Transformer Service Facility in line with business objectives and company guidelines.
- Act as a trusted partner to business leadership and represent Procurement & Supply Chain in key management and decision-making forums.
- Deliver measurable value through savings, EBIT contribution, cash flow improvement, and working capital optimisation, and establish and drive KPIs, governance routines, and performance reviews to increase transparency and support continuous improvement.
- Define and implement supplier strategies, including sourcing, supplier relationship management, and supplier development, in collaboration with internal stakeholders and commodity management.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate supply chain risks to strengthen resilience and safeguard business continuity. Lead critical supplier negotiations and act as the final escalation point for supplier-related issues.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a comparable discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in Procurement and Supply Chain, ideally within industrial, manufacturing, service, or project-driven environments.
- Strong strategic thinking combined with a practical, hands-on approach to execution and problem solving.
- Excellent negotiation, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels.
- Experience with SAP and a strong understanding of procurement and supply chain performance management.
- Ability to thrive in an international, matrixed organisation and drive change in a dynamic environment.
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About this role
About Siemens Energy
Company Overview
Siemens Energy AG
HeadquartersMunich, Germany
Founded2020
SizeApproximately 103,000 employees worldwide (source: siemens-energy.com). Revenue of 39.077 billion in fiscal year 2025 (source: siemens-energy.com).
What They Do
Siemens Energy is a global energy technology company covering nearly the entire value chain of energy, from power and heat generation to transmission and storage (source: siemens-energy.com). The company offers a broad portfolio of products and services, including gas and steam turbines, generators, transformers, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission, grid technologies, as well as industrial electrification and decarbonization solutions (source: siemens-energy.com). Its main business areas include Gas Services, Grid Technologies, Transformation of Industry, and Siemens Gamesa, which holds a significant position in the wind energy sector (source: siemens-energy.com). Siemens Energy serves utilities, grid operators, industrial companies, power producers, and infrastructure developers worldwide and estimates that about one-sixth of global power generation is based on its technologies (source: siemens-energy.com).
Projects & Track Record
In recent years, Siemens Energy has completed numerous significant projects, including the construction of an offshore converter system connecting North Sea wind farms to the German power grid in collaboration with Neptun Smulders Offshore Renewables for 50Hertz (source: reuters.com). In June 2026, it secured a 2-GW offshore contract for the North Sea Connector 2 project from 50Hertz (source: energynews.pro). Another major project is the 2-GW HVDC link Eastern Green Link 4 between Scotland and England, with a contract value of around 3 billion pounds, scheduled for completion by 2033 (source: energynews.pro). In the steam turbine sector, Siemens Energy is delivering 20 turbines with a total capacity of 1 GW for AI data centers in cooperation with Babcock & Wilcox (source: finance.yahoo.com). Additionally, the company supplies Petrobras with energy and gas compression systems for FPSO units in Brazilian offshore fields (source: finance.yahoo.com).
Outside Europe, Siemens Energy is involved in Oman with the delivery and maintenance of equipment for two 2.6-GW gas power plants in Misfah and Duqm (source: energynews.pro). In the USA, two energy projects totaling 2 GW were agreed upon in 2025 with Fermi America in connection with a private 11-GW AI energy campus (source: energynews.pro).
Recent Developments
In 2026, Siemens Energy significantly improved its order intake, especially in Gas Services, where 102 gas turbines were booked in the first quarter and 12 GW were converted from existing reservation agreements, with an additional 12 GW of new reservations (source: siemens-energy.com). The revenue forecast for fiscal year 2026 was raised from 11-13% to 14-16%, and the profit margin before special items was increased to 10-12%, reflecting strong demand and solid execution (source: siemens-energy.com). Furthermore, Siemens Energy is investing 1 billion USD in North America, creating highly skilled jobs to further expand its manufacturing and industrial presence (source: siemens-energy.com).
Working There
Siemens Energy offers a wide range of career opportunities in fields such as engineering, manufacturing, project management, service, digitalization, sales, finance, human resources, and supply chain management (source: siemens-energy.com). The corporate culture is shaped by a global presence in over 90 countries with approximately 21,200 production sites, offering diverse opportunities in project-driven and production-intensive roles (source: siemens-energy.com). Key recruitment locations include the headquarters in Munich as well as Orlando, Florida, USA (source: siemens-energy.com). Desired qualifications include mechanical and electrical engineering, energy systems, control technology, software development, manufacturing, project management, field service, procurement, and industrial operations (source: siemens-energy.com).
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