Supplier Development Lead
Siemens Energy
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Warwick
Contract type: Full time
A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Supplier Development Lead, you serve as change agent in individual corporate responsibility, working alongside Siemens Energy’s business areas to strengthen supplier capability and performance. You collaborate with team members across regions, translating strategic procurement direction into impactful supplier development initiatives. Your day involves engaging with cross-functional teams, addressing supplier initiatives, ensuring supplier processes are robust, scalable, and aligned with our long-term objectives. You operate as a peer and partner to business areas, bringing both technical depth and a broad organizational perspective.
How You’ll Make An Impact
The Supplier Development team is dedicated to refining supplier management practices within Strategic Procurement, significantly contributing to Siemens Energy's competitive edge. We innovate methods, programs, and best practices that bolster the capabilities and performance of our supply base, aligning with the company's immediate and future objectives.
This role is pivotal in supporting all Siemens Energy Business Areas in an individual capacity, with functional management and key interfaces potentially spanning the globe
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
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As a Supplier Development Lead, you serve as change agent in individual corporate responsibility, working alongside Siemens Energy’s business areas to strengthen supplier capability and performance. You collaborate with team members across regions, translating strategic procurement direction into impactful supplier development initiatives. Your day involves engaging with cross-functional teams, addressing supplier initiatives, ensuring supplier processes are robust, scalable, and aligned with our long-term objectives. You operate as a peer and partner to business areas, bringing both technical depth and a broad organizational perspective.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Develop and implement/consult on pivotal initiatives to improve specific supplier processes, capabilities, and partnerships—driving performance, innovation, and alignment with Siemens Energy’s procurement strategy. This includes both proactive improvements (e.g., innovation, capability, capacity, technology) and addressing performance topics (e.g., quality, delivery).
- Diagnose and resolve supply base challenges/opportunities, proactively handling risks and driving targeted improvements
- Champion and harmonize supplier development practices spanning multiple business areas, ensuring consistency, alignment, and sustainable results.
- Provide both strategic enablement and practical support as needs evolve, partnering with business areas to advance optimal procedures and continuous improvement.
- Build and train on methodologies and process guides to elevate supplier development competency across Siemens Energy’s supply base.
- Benchmark and integrate external, innovative developments in supplier development, ensuring Siemens Energy remains at the forefront of industry best practices.
- Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field (e.g., Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing/Process Engineering, or Business Administration with operations/supply chain focus) and shown experience in supplier process optimization and production planning.
- Strong systems thinking and analytical skills to holistically analyze, optimize, and innovate supplier processes end-to-end.
- Experience working in global, corporate, or matrixed environments, collaborating across business units and influencing executive partners.
- Proven leadership in Supplier Development, with a track record of leading international, cross-functional projects and virtual teams; strong facilitation and project/program management skills.
- Relevant certifications and practical experience in Lean Enterprise, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, Value Stream Analysis, Change Management, and Scrum; advanced certifications preferred.
- Dynamic self-starter with intercultural expertise and the ability to communicate technical information and results optimally at senior levels; willingness to travel internationally up to 40%
The Supplier Development team is dedicated to refining supplier management practices within Strategic Procurement, significantly contributing to Siemens Energy's competitive edge. We innovate methods, programs, and best practices that bolster the capabilities and performance of our supply base, aligning with the company's immediate and future objectives.
This role is pivotal in supporting all Siemens Energy Business Areas in an individual capacity, with functional management and key interfaces potentially spanning the globe
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
- Working with a distributed team
- Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
- Possibility to take over further tasks within the company
- Encouraging work culture
- Remote/Flexible work
- Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform
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