Procurement Director Europe

Who we are

On July 1 2025 IPL merged with Schoeller Allibert to form IPL Schoeller (the company). Its operations are split across North America (11 manufacturing plants) The UK and Lommel (6 manufacturing plants) and Europe (9 manufacturing plants). The company is headquartered in Dublin Ireland. IPL Schoeller is a leading manufacturer of sustainable rigid packaging solutions across a range of end market segments including returnable transit packaging consumer and industrial packaging environmental containers and agricultural packaging. The company employs c.4100 employees across North America (1600 employees) and Europe (2500 employees).

Job Overview

The Procurement Director is a senior leader responsible for overseeing the organizations strategy and sourcing. Ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives. The role focuses on developing and implementing procurement strategies to optimize spend build a resilient and complaint supply network enhance supplier performance and drive sustainability to deliver financial benefits and added value.

The scope of this role will be as a Procurement Director with responsibility for various spend categories across the global spend.

Key Accountabilities:

Provide Strategic Procurement Leadership through the development and execution of a comprehensive procurement strategy ensuring an alignment with business goals whilst delivering spend optimization and value add.

Category and Supply Chain Strategy - Lead strategic procurement and subsequent categories ensuring alignment with business and operational needs. Support long-term success by developing policies processes and systems that enhance procurement and category capabilities.

Supplier Relationship and Risk Management - Build and maintain strategic supplier partnerships to drive value and ensure compliance standards are met. Assess supply chain risks and develop resilient strategies to safeguard business continuity at minimal cost.

Cost Management and Financial Oversight Monitor procurement category spend strategically source and negotiate contracts optimize the supply chain delivery to achieve financial targets and efficiencies.

Sustainability and Compliance - Integrate sustainable procurement practices including GHG emissions assessment and environmentally responsible sourcing. Ensure compliance with labor safety environmental and trade regulations across procurement activities to support IPLs sustainability goals.

Stakeholder Collaboration - Collaborate with Supply Chain Operations and cross-functional teams to align procurement frameworks and priorities with business needs. Facilitate communication across teams to implement changes and drive improvements effectively.
Team Leadership and Development - Lead coach and mentor direct reports to foster high performance and continuous improvement. Conduct regular performance reviews and ensure team alignment with organizational values and objectives.

Performance Monitoring and Continuous Improvement Establish and monitor KPIs to measure procurement category effectiveness and efficiency establish protocols for corrective action and feedback. Drive continuous improvement initiatives and ensure the highest data integrity standards to support procurement operations and the decision-making process.

Qualifications & Experience

Professional certification ( eg CIPs ISM EIPM etc )

Related bachelors degree or masters degree in a related field preferred and/or prior experience as Procurement Director

Able to understand operational processes customer requirements and technical attributes of the product range.

Commercially and financially astute; experience in multisite P&L management with clear ability to forecast manage budgets and costs.

Strong Business Results Orientation: Ability to align procurement agenda with broader business parameters. Excellent business intuition.

Able to successfully lead and implement change structure and process and take a common-sense approach to encouraging continual cultural technological and operational transformation.

Experience of M&A led growth and integration with knowledge of how business is conducted on a global scale. Able to work effectively with senior leadership.

An inspiring leader who can attract and retain the key talent for the Division. Experience leading coaching building teams and mentoring highly skilled and experienced direct reports.

Comfortable working both at a strategic and a tactical level with a demonstrated ability to be hands on and remain close to sales and operations.

ERP experience (IFS advantageous but not essential).

Experience in a Private Equity (PE) environment is advantageous

If you have the above experience and are looking for a role where you can make a real difference apply today to find out more!