Global Head of Procurement (m/f/d)
For our portfolio company MUVIQ (formerly known as Dayco Propulsion Solutions), a leading supplier of power transmission products to commercial vehicle and off-highway vehicle OEMs as well as light vehicle OEMs, we are looking for a DACH based Global Head of Procurement (m/f/d).
MUVIQ provides solutions for conventional and hybrid technologies, which include tensioners, dampers, pulleys, and decouplers. Headquartered in Italy, MUVIQ is a global business with 8 manufacturing facilities strategically located in every major geography, serving 50+ of the largest global and regional OEMs with technologically advanced value-add products.
Your primary objective will be to lead the procurement team in all aspects, including vision and strategy, planning, day-to-day activities, business and market interaction, policy and process compliance, governance and people management. By working closely with MUVIQ leadership team and the production site managers and reporting to the MUVIQ CEO, you will develop and implement a strategic agenda for procurement that ensures the company’s success.
Your key responsibilities:
- Full accountability for the overall management of the entire spend (more than USD 300 m). The spend includes direct material (e.g. steel, cast iron, aluminum, bearings) as well as all indirect spend (e.g. CAPEX, MRO, logistics, professional services).
- Strong contribution to the Value Engineering agenda (e.g. to counteract inflation pressure) in collaboration with the engineering teams, delivering on targets, managing performance, identifying and implementation of initiatives by utilizing a corresponding program management office.
- Identifying, qualifying and developing a new supplier base to establish regional and technological best-sourcing and cost-down activities.
- Ability to give confidence to stakeholders, customers and suppliers at the highest level, resulting in delivery to plan and targets for the entire procurement.
- Support the governance and structure of the procurement operations, including cross-functional collaboration and effective prioritization, deployment, control and monitoring of spend across the relevant spend areas.
- Support the establishment with a new way of working demonstrating the value of procurement, setting standards, reinforcing the enabling culture and approach across the organization.
- Show presence in the plants, interact with plant managers and drive main initiatives with the local procurement teams. Supervise supplier quality audits (VDA, IATF 16949).
- Coordinate MUVIQ’s ESG efforts.
Your profile:
- Educational background: Master’s degree in engineering or business administration
- Proven track record in automotive procurement strategy development, stakeholder & supplier management, supplier development, business acumen (financial & commercial)
- Global perspective on sourcing and dealing with diverse markets
- Proven track record in people-, project and change management
- Born negotiator & leader, proven self-motivator who sets clear direction and priorities
- Fostering a collaborative supplier-customer culture & multi- stakeholder partnership
- Building stakeholder confidence and managing communication effectively in a multi-organization business environment
- Ability to influence senior management, teams and individuals across multiple cultures, disciplines, hierarchies and geographies to drive common solutions
- Ability to inspire and motivate team through sharing and communicating vision
Our offer
- A professional environment with a positive mindset and a ‘can do’ attitude, continuously striving for excellence.
- Enthusiastic, committed, and skilled global team, striving for sustainability, efficiency, and customer centricity
- An open company culture that stimulates exchanging experience, ideas and entrepreneurship.
- An attractive and performance orientated package
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
What you’ll do
- Manage operations and financials of private equity funds and Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV), be part of a team working closely with our CFO
- Actively support closings of investment deals in collaboration with deal teams, legal and tax.
- Forster seamless communication and coordination with internal departments, including deal teams, legal, investor relations, as well as external parties and portfolio companies.
- Manage and review work of external fund administrators and ensure high quality and timely deliverables.
- Review and support preparation of quarterly reports and investor capital accounts
- Monitor liquidity and initiate capital calls / distributions.
- Close collaboration with accounting to ensure transactions are properly reflected.
- Work with external auditors to facilitate efficient and timely audit completion.
- Coordinate other external experts such as tax and legal.
- Actively participate in the development and enhancement of processes and tools, contributing to team-specific and firm-wide initiatives
- Manage ad hoc processes as required, demonstrating flexibility and agility in responding to evolving needs
What we’re looking for
- 3- 8 years of relevant experience in a Big 4 audit firm or private equity firm.
- University degree in finance, accounting or related field; further professional qualifications (ACCA, CPA, CFA) preferred.
- Excellent communication skills in English, proficiency in additional language such as German or French is a plus.
- Experience with Luxembourgish private equity funds (closed-ended).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a solid understanding of international accounting standards and Lux GAAP.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, with exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills.
- Have a personal drive and strive for excellence, willing to develop and learn. A person who walks the extra mile, takes responsibility and wants to deliver high quality.
What we offer
- Unique, challenging and independent role, managing various areas related to fund operations.
- Work with an inspiring team of professionals and be part of a fast growing, dynamic and successful investment firm.
- An attractive and performance-related remuneration package.
- Be part of an international team with close collaboration across multiple departments.
Please apply online including all relevant application documents (cover letter, CV and certificates), and stating your earliest possible starting date, preferred working hours and salary expectation.
ECO3 (formerly Agfa Offset Solutions) is a leading global supplier of prepress systems to the printing industry. Commercial, newspaper and packaging printers rely on us for the most extensive range of integrated solutions, from printing plates and computer-to-plate systems over workflow and print management software to pressroom chemicals. Our solutions are designed to deliver higher productivity, lower costs and greener outcomes at every stage of the print process.
ECO3 is headquartered in Belgium with production and research centers in Germany, Brazil, China, and Israel. With over 1600 colleagues, we are commercially active worldwide through sales organizations and dealers in more than 30 countries.
At ECO3 group level, we are seeking a highly accomplished and results-oriented
Head of Accounting (m/f/d)
to lead and develop our global accounting teams from our HQ office in Mortsel, Belgium. As the Head of Accounting, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, compliance and integrity of our accounts and financial reports, striving for high quality standards in our financial and accounting processes.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the entire accounting function of the ECO3 group, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and financial reporting
- Ensure compliance with IFRS accounting standards, regulatory requirements and internal policies
- Develop and implement strategic accounting initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness in all accounting areas: Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) as well as Record-to-Report (R2R) processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as procurement, operations, logistics and sales colleagues to support the translation and implementation of business developments and flows into efficient accounting processes. You will also partner with IT and Business Process teams.
- Support the financial analysis to support decision-making in the actual reporting
- Prepare accurate and timely financial reports for internal and external stakeholders
- Manage a dynamic and diverse team of accounting professionals, providing guidance, training, and performance evaluations
- Partner with regional finance teams across the globe, and with in-house and external financial shared service centers
Qualifications required:
- Master’s in law, Economics, Finance or Accounting and a proven track of record in similar positions.
- Minimum 10 years working experience preferably in a multinational industrial environment as an auditor.
- Proven experience managing and leading a team of accounting professionals with knowledge of IFRS to further develop ECO3’s accounting policies
- Strong numeracy and IT literacy skills, especially in SAP
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to partner within a dynamic environment
- Project management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities. Experience with change management is an asset
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Proactive and results-oriented approach to problem-solving
- Analytical and decision-making skills, critical mind-set
- Fluent in English
- Willingness to travel from time to time
What ECO3 offers:
- A professional environment with a positive mindset and a ‘can do’ attitude, continuously striving for excellence
- Enthusiastic, committed, and skilled team, striving for sustainability, efficiency, and customer centricity
- An open company culture that stimulates exchanging experience, ideas and entrepreneurship
- The opportunity to influence positive change across our global network
- A great team of passionate, like-minded colleagues to work with
- A hybrid working environment
Contact
Please apply via e-mail including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation: naiara.esnal@eco3.com.
AURELIUS’ Task Force is a close-knit team of advisors with deep functional expertise and long-standing management experience. They support value generation in portfolio companies through effective and hands-on project and change management in the areas of Procurement, Operations, Sales/Marketing, IT and Finance.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate large scale IT programs e.g., IT Carve-out, IT Transformation, ERP modernization as part of the Project Management Office
- Manage project status, key tasks and risks to ensure program success
- As part of an IT expert team execute IT due diligence on potential large size target companies
- Create red-flag reports, draft carve-out scenarios and estimate associated costs
- Coach business and IT stakeholder of the portfolio companies to understand standard IT terms and processes as well as project methodology, roles, and deliverables
- Analyse poorly defined problems, moderate solution finding process and suggest solution alternatives
Qualifications required
- You are an experienced IT all-rounder with knowledge in several IT areas e.g., IT Strategy and Governance, application and infrastructure management, service delivery or IT-security
- Successfully completed studies in computer science, natural sciences, engineering, or economics
- At least 5 years of relevant professional experience, ideally in the context of an IT consulting, IT company or as IT Lead in the Industry
- Experience in IT projects management in the field of IT carve-out, M&A, IT transformation or development of IT landscapes or applications as stream lead or sub-project lead
- You work in a consulting-oriented manner and able to use your broad knowledge in a wide variety of situations
- Excellent communication combined with strong analytical skills
- Entrepreneurial thinking and acting, implementation strength and business/commercial acumen
- Ability to travel regularly
- Fluent in English, other language skills are welcome
Our offer
- An attractive and performance-related remuneration package
- The opportunity to implement your own ideas and create real entrepreneurial added value
- Flat hierarchy with very fast decision making
- End-to-end view of the portfolio companies through their Aurelius lifecycle from due diligence to divestment
- Dynamic career development in a very successful and rapidly growing investment company
- Flexible place of work in a country in which an AURELIUS location is represented
Please apply online including all relevant application documents (cover letter, CV and certificates), and stating your earliest possible starting date, preferred working hours and salary expectation.
AURELIUS’ Task Force is a close-knit team of advisors with deep functional expertise and long-standing management experience. They support value generation in portfolio companies through effective and hands-on project and change management in the areas of Procurement, Operations, Sales/Marketing, IT and Finance.
Responsibilities:
- Perform specific due diligence tasks during the company acquisition process
- Perform quick-check-analysis for optimisation potential in portfolio companies after acquisition
- Optimisation of the finance organisation
- Optimisation of forecasting and budgeting processes
- Supporting the CFO / FD in the transition to the new ownership and setting the benchmark for internal reporting requirements
- Preparation of integrated budgets and forecasts including indirect cash flow planning
- Short-term liquidity planning and management
- Supporting the operational implementation of different financial products
- Contact person for different financing partners (banks, 2nd lien lenders, credit insurers)
- Building up controlling structures and KPI-systems supporting data-driven management and control
- Gap analysis, identification, and implementation of immediate countermeasures
Qualifications required
- University degree / suitable experience in business / economics and strong analytical skills
- At least three years relevant experience, preferably with a top management consulting firm or Big4
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills combined with a confident, convincing and entrepreneurial personality
- Analytical / strategical thinking, result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork
- Practical, hands-on mentality
- Capability to lead teams through critical transformations with the required sensitiveness and speed
- Extensive travel required
- Fluent in English, further language skills welcome (German is helpful, but not required)
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.