Procurement Manager

About This Role

This Procurement Manager role is for the Procurement Centre of Excellence in Barcelona, Spain, within a dynamic and international environment. The successful candidate will design, own, and deploy the sourcing strategy for main product categories globally, aiming to ensure supply at the best possible total cost of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy strategies to optimize the total cost of ownership across an identified set of categories
• Act as business owner for your categories, autonomously defining and executing sourcing strategies to improve reliability, get competitive pricing, seek technical and commercial opportunities, reduce complexity, and shorten lead times
• Directly lead negotiations with suppliers
• Engage with key stakeholders to maintain alignment with evolving business needs
• Apply the Total Delivered Cost (TDC) process and tools, from definition to implementation, to build and reinforce a best-in-class supply that meets company goals
• Collaborate across Project Management, Operations, Engineering, and Business to ensure action plans and project milestones are met
• Investigate, develop, and drive actions to remedy supply disruptions and constraints
• Effectively communicate updates to internal stakeholders
• Build and maintain expert knowledge of respective categories, competition, and innovations
• Provide accurate pricing forecasts and understand key feedstock trends
• Link knowledge of current market trends with supplier portfolios to identify opportunities for marketplace advantages and generate new ideas for gaining a competitive advantage
• Establish, develop, and maintain supplier relationships to ultimately create value for the organization

Requirements

• Bachelor

’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, Automation) and/or Business

• Sourcing or negotiation certification preferred
• 10+ years of international sourcing experience within industrial or engineered-to-order environments
• Strong expertise in Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, SRM, supplier, and contract management
• Proven experience managing procurement for complex projects and working within matrix organizations & project management
• Strategic, results-driven, and proactive mindset with the ability to influence without direct authority
• Excellent communication skills and ability to thrive in dynamic, cross-functional environments
• Fluent English required

Nice to have:

• An additional European language

About the Company

Ecolab prioritizes its talent-first philosophy by creating the most capable and diverse team to excel at nearly three million customer sites. Building on a century of innovation, its 48,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights, and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, life sciences, hospitality, and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.