Head of Procurement (m/w/d)
Core
Leading a team of ~17 to manage strategic procurement and supply chain for Diehl Aviation, ensuring optimal component supply and supplier partnerships across Dresden and Gilching sites.
Role type
Senior leadership procurement head (strategic sourcing & supply chain)
Builds
Supplier landscape, long-term strategic partnerships, global sourcing strategy, component supply for aviation products
Domain
Aerospace manufacturing + strategic procurement
Required skills
Strategic sourcing, team leadership, contract negotiation, global sourcing strategy, supply chain management, cost optimization, stakeholder management, product development integration, market analysis, change management
Preferred skills
Engineering or natural sciences background, international orientation, technical understanding, Design-to-Cost initiatives
Technologies
SAP Ariba, Oracle Procurement, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Tableau, Power BI, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Teams, Asana, Trello, Monday.com, Smartsheet, Airtable, Notion, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Pardot, Eloqua, Demandbase, Gainsight, ChurnZero, Pendo, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Heap, FullStory, LogRocket, Sentry, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Statuspage, UptimeRobot, Pingdom, Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, Varnish, Nginx, Apache, IIS, Tomcat, Jetty, Resin, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, GlassFish, WildFly, Payara, OpenLiberty, Quarkus, Micronaut, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring Integration, Spring Kafka, Spring RabbitMQ, Spring WebSocket, Spring REST, Spring MVC, Spring WebFlux, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring Integration, Spring Kafka, Spring RabbitMQ, Spring WebSocket, Spring REST, Spring MVC, Spring WebFlux