Head of Global Process Ownership

Belgium - Hoboken

Procurement

Posted on 12-06-2025

About Umicore

Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Powering the cars of the future. Giving new life to used metals. We are the leading circular materials technology company fulfilling its mission to create materials for a better life. With ambitions like this, imagine what you could do?

About Support Functions

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our support functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

What you will be doing

As Head of Global Process Ownership (GOP), you ensure that the GPO team is managed in a professional and sustainable way. This role aims to secure standardization and optimization over the end-to-end processes within the global functions of P&T (procurement / transportation / trade compliance & warehousing), across functional, geographical and BU boundaries, while resulting in creating more efficient & effective processes.

Responsibilities:

Define & manage Global Process Ownership for all functions:

• Provide leadership and direction in installing globally (over the different functions) a standard methodology, which creates consistency in the definition / mapping / follow up & improvement of our owned end-to-end processes.

• Define, develop and implement group wide processes for each of the functions

• Responsible at global level for all aspects of the end-to-end process and design of best-in-class, efficient and effective end-to-end process.

• Drive compliancy and sustain process standardization

• Bring alignment with key stakeholders in BU’s on the process. 

• Lead overall training strategy and development of materials (knowledge mgt) in alignment with People Excellence team;

• Work in close cooperation with GFS GPO team 

• Ensure an intimate connection with the business and its plans in order to be a pro-active and strategic partner in the global processes related issues that are essential for the business and Umicore.

Lead, drive and develop the Global Process Owner organization:

• Manage a global GPO team, across all functions, that defines, implements and educate the end-to-end processes, in order to have efficient and effective processes and build a strong foundation for P&T.

• Lead & supervise the functional alignment from the GPO organization (all process owners) with regional excellence teams across the globe (dotted line with GPO)

  • to support the regions and enforce the global process design

  • to address, challenge and prioritize local key users requirements, including impact on process homogeneity as one of the criteria’s

  • to install a governance to ensure a culture of continuous improvements and innovations throughout the whole network

  • to improve customer satisfaction (key users / stakeholders), being essential to build trust and to bring the organization efficiency and sustainability to the next level

  • to communicate to the process network the relevant process information via appropriate channels 

Provide leadership and direction on P&T excellence team as active PTX MT member 

• Provide strategy and expertise to lead the GPO team.

• Provide global oversight and excellence related insights to the PTX MT, report to the Director Global P&T Excellence 

• Ensure close collaboration within the P&T excellence team 

• Define and manage the cost center budget of GPO related operations and projects.

Who we are looking for

• 7+ years of experience with minimum 5 years of experience in process design, optimization, efficiency programs and project management.

• Substantial professional experience in procurement or supply chain or senior position with commercial experience

• Master degree (economics, sciences, …) or equivalent by experience

• Substantial professional experience in (indirect) procurement or supply chain (>10 years) or senior position with commercial experience

• Deep understanding and knowledge of business and process needs 

• Fluent in English (both written and spoken),knowledge of other languages is an asset

• Advanced computer skills: visualization tools such as Visio, process/ process design tools

• Experience working for a large, diverse multinational environment

• Performance and result oriented

• Internal customer oriented, striving for continuous improvement

• Analytical & conceptual thinking and decision making; strong project and risk management skills

• Exemplary behaviour towards ethics and integrity

• Strong communicator and interpersonal impact

• Teamwork, collaboration & flexibility

In case of any questions on the role, feel free to reach out to Krisztina Hyross.

What we offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?

IF OUR TECHNOLOGIES CAN TACKLE SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST PRESSING CHALLENGES , IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD DO?

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