Indirect Buyer Team Lead

Indirect Buyer Team Lead, Poznań

Role overview

Ready to take a leading role and elevate a procurement team delivering real business impact?

This is your opportunity to lead a centralized Indirect Procurement Buyer team at the core of sourcing delivery across Western Europe.

Working from our Shared Service Center and reporting directly to the Senior Director, Indirect Procurement Western Europe, you will manage and develop a team of buyers while collaborating closely with local business partners, regional category managers, and business stakeholders.

If you’re motivated by building capabilities, delivering impact, and making procurement a true business partner- this role is for you. 

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and developing the team – inspiring, coaching, and growing a team of indirect buyers, ensuring clear objectives, solid performance, and a high level of engagement
• Managing sourcing delivery end-to-end – delivering complex sourcing projects and overseeing tenders, supplier negotiations, and contract execution across the team, ensuring high-quality and SLA-compliant outcomes
• Partnering with key stakeholders – collaborating with Local Procurement teams, and Regional/Global stakeholders across Western Europe, aligning delivery with business needs and managing expectations effectively
• Ensuring operational excellence – supporting standardization, optimizing resource allocation and workload, and continuously improving processes, tools, and ways of working
• Driving governance and compliance – ensuring consistency with procurement policies, supporting audit and control requirements, and providing transparency on team performance and delivery

What we’re looking for

• A procurement leader who is able to deliver outcomes, not just processes
• A skilled people developer with a genuine commitment to coaching, building capability, and creating an engaged team
• A business-minded problem solver who focuses on improvement and brings smarter, more efficient solutions
• An effective connector who builds trust and collaborates with stakeholders across functions, markets, and cultures
• A tech-savvy operator comfortable navigating procurement systems (e.g., SAP, Ariba) and using data to shape decisions
• At least 4 years of experience in procurement, including exposure to sourcing activities
• Experience in stakeholder management across multiple markets or functions
• Previous leadership experience (would be beneficial)
• Fluency in English

What you can expect

We’re asking for a lot, but you’ll be well-rewarded with:

• Flexible working hours
• Working in a hybrid mode (min. 2 days in the office per week)
• Private health care, accident insurance, and MyBenefit system at your disposal
• Annual bonus
• Holiday benefit “Wczasy pod Gruszą”
• Christmas gift & MyBenefit points
• Additional holiday for Birthday & job anniversary
• Internal trainings
• Periodical beer allowance & 0% beer available at the office
• Co-financed lunch
• Social events such as e.g. Thursday Bars in the office
• Employee Referral Program
• Bike parking space
• Modern ergonomic office space with a chillout zone
• Exciting growth and development opportunities within the organization
• Working in a passionate, international environment.

We read applications continuously and vacancies may be filled anytime. We look forward to receiving your application.

Carlsberg Group: Brewing for a better today and tomorrow

For us success has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth. Carlsberg aims to create equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity, and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion or any other characteristics protected by law.