Company Introduction
1902년 프랑스에서 시작된 에어리퀴드는 지난 120여 년간 전 세계 산업용 가스 기술의 혁신을 이끌어 왔습니다. 이러한 선도적인 기술력은 산업용 가스 분야의 광범위한 전문성과 약 14,000건의 원천기술 특허 보유로 증명되며, 전 세계 59개국에서 65,000여 명의 임직원과 함께 430만 명 이상의 고객과 환자를 케어하는 원동력이 되고 있습니다. 반도체, 자동차, 석유화학, 철강 등 주요 산업 부문에 있어 에어리퀴드만의 차별화된 기술력과 솔루션을 바탕으로 글로벌 시장에서 핵심 주역으로 자리잡고 있습니다.
1979년에 한국에 진출한 이후로, 주요 산업 부문(석유화학, 철강, 반도체, 자동차 제조, 헬스케어 등)에 필요한 산업용 가스 및 관련 서비스를 제공하고 있습니다.

How will you Contribute and Grow?

1. Overall Procurement Performance
 - Make sure that all procurement operations are running smoothly with the appropriate level (quantity and competencies) of resources 
- Set and monitor overall procurement performance against global and local goals - Track specific spend and savings objectives for each Business Line
 - Routinely assess stakeholders satisfaction, develop and implement action plans for continuous improvement
 - Align supplier capabilities with business requirements. Track and report suppliers' performance
 - Drive/Support Design to Cost (DTC) and category optimization with a focus on local/project categories

2. Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Team Leadership: Mentor, develop, and lead a high-performing local procurement team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and commercial excellence. 
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a strategic business partner to management and internal stakeholders to understand their operational needs and integrate procurement early in the planning process. 
- Change Management: Drive organizational change and adoption of global procurement policies and systems across the local business units.

3. Centralized & Central-Led Categories - Provide input & Lead Strategy Execution
For centralized categories, ensure local sourcing teams 
- Execute the strategy in compliance with sourcing/procurement rules defined by central team 
- Provide input to central team on local market segment (support of central category team), suppliers dynamics and needs forecast
 - Provide Feedback on suppliers performance and utilization 
For Central-led categories, ensure local procurement teams
 - Comply with sourcing/procurement guidance defined by central team
- Execute RFI/RFPs and local contractualisation according to framework provided by central team
 - Report any specific local requirements, feedback, experience, improvement, best practices to the central team

4. Project Procurement - Support Cost Effective Execution of Projects
- Ensure cost effective and efficient purchasing procedures are implemented, while complying with projects requirements in terms of quality, service, efficiency, productivity, replacement costs, running costs, risk, environment, cost of change, safety...
- Promote early involvement in Project Tender phases, to allow more creative and cost effective procurement solutions to be implemented- Drive the creation of an Approved Vendor List, to grow through identification of new potential sources to meet projects requirements
- Act as interface between central procurement organisation (category managers, strategic sourcing, analysts, etc), the local sourcing team and the projects business leaders
- Provide support as needed during execution of projects, especially when project execution & procurement teams are facing roadblocks

5. Local Procurement Teams - Functional leadership role
- Lead local procurement teams to support and execute procurement strategy, in line with category management general principles. 
- Lead, support and implement knowledge management and systems/ process transformation for Direct categories
- Contribute to the recruitment/development of procurement team members who are in the geographic scope- Set objectives and measure performance of procurement teams who are in the geographic scope, in collaboration with direct managers
- Hold and share the overall APAC HUB procurement vision, and provide guidance and feedback to local teams on its realisation

6. Safety & Ethics - Drive Compliance
- Model and set high ethics standards in relation to procurement matters in the Country/Cluster
- Ensure a culture of compliance and integrity at every level of the procurement organization 
- Support group standards (BlueBook, CSR, ethics,...)
- Hold a firm 'no compromise' stand on safety and ethics, in all procurement practices throughout the organization

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business or Finance.
• Fluent both in Korean and English
• Professional certifications such as CIPS, EIPM, or APICS are preferred
• Minimum of 10+ years of industry experience and 3+ years in a leadership or procurement management role.
• Strong interpersonal skills to navigate a matrix environment and influence local stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage significant spend and deliver annual savings targets.
• Proven track record in executing procurement strategies and driving organizational transformation.