Chief of Staff & Lead Special Operations, Global Procurement (m/w/d)
Core
Leading special operations and rapid cost-down initiatives for hardware categories (solar, batteries, inverters, heat pumps, EV mobility) while driving restructuring and building the Asia procurement function.
Role type
Senior Chief of Staff & Lead Special Operations (Procurement)
Builds
Strategic procurement programs, cost-down initiatives, supplier restructuring, and Asia procurement infrastructure for a global virtual power plant.
Domain
Renewable energy hardware procurement and supply chain optimization
Required skills
Strategic procurement, cost-down program leadership, supplier restructuring, data modeling (Google Sheets), executive presentation, cross-functional stakeholder management, international negotiation, on-site operations insight
Preferred skills
BI tools (Looker), Chinese language proficiency
Technologies
Google Sheets, Looker
Responsibilities
Lead rapid cost-down initiatives across categories and countries; execute operational special projects for supply bottlenecks and escalations; drive supplier relationship restructuring; build the Asia procurement function; create strategy documents and business cases for C-level; manage group-wide cost-down program tracking and reporting; support international supplier negotiations and auctions; interface with Operations, Logistics, Supply Chain, Product, and Finance; visit installation sites to inform procurement decisions.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic scope