About Client

A leading medical technology company with a long-standing heritage of innovation and a strong international presence. The organization partners with healthcare professionals around the world to provide best-in-class solutions and services for early detection, diagnosis, and minimally invasive treatment, with the aim of improving patient outcomes and elevating standards of care. With extensive worldwide operations, the company offers both the scale and complexity of a truly global enterprise, alongside a clear strategic focus on transformation, capability building, and sustainable growth.  

Role Purpose

The Chief Procurement Officer will serve as the senior procurement leader for the organization, accountable for shaping and executing the global procurement strategy across direct and indirect spend categories. The individual will play a critical role in strengthening procurement performance, organizational capability, and succession depth across a large international function.

The role combines strategic leadership and organizational transformation with operational oversight. The mandate includes enhancing procurement efficiency, upgrading selected leadership capabilities, and contributing strategically to broader business transformation initiatives, including ERP transformation.

Location: East Asia or APAC, with regular presence in a key regional market preferred

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Procurement Leadership

• Define and lead the global procurement strategy across direct and indirect procurement, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, supply chain strategy, and business objectives.

• Drive strategic sourcing, supplier management, and category leadership across a broad range of spend areas, balancing cost, quality, resilience, innovation, and service outcomes.

• Lead supplier and category strategies that enhance value creation, supply continuity, risk management, and long-term competitiveness.

• Partner closely with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure procurement supports commercial, operational, and transformation priorities.

• Act as a trusted advisor to the Chief Supply Chain Officer and broader executive leadership team on procurement, supply market dynamics, organizational capability, and transformation priorities.

2. Operational Excellence & Transformation

• Improve procurement efficiency, effectiveness, and operating discipline through process optimization, governance enhancement, and performance management.

• Contribute strategically to enterprise transformation initiatives, including ERP transformation, by ensuring procurement requirements, process design, and change implications are appropriately represented.

• Foster close collaboration with manufacturing, supply chain, operations, finance, quality, engineering, and commercial teams to deliver aligned business outcomes.

3. Organizational Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead a large, internationally distributed procurement organization across APAC, the US, and EMEA, building a high-performance culture and clear accountability across the function.

• Strengthen organizational capability through leadership development, team upgrading, succession planning, and targeted talent enhancement in key roles.

• Create an environment of continuous improvement, coaching, and leadership development across the procurement organization..

Desired Candidate Profile 

• Senior procurement leader with experience in global, matrixed, and complex operating environments.

• Proven track record leading large, multi-region procurement teams across direct and indirect spend.

• Experience driving procurement transformation, operating model improvement, and functional modernization.

• Strong people leader with success in capability building, team development, and succession planning.

• Expertise in strategic sourcing, supplier management, category management, and procurement operations.

• Able to operate at executive level and influence across regional, functional, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Commercially astute and analytical, with the ability to link procurement strategy to business performance and long-term value.

• Experience supporting major transformation initiatives, including ERP, process redesign, or digital enablement.

• Resilient, pragmatic, and forward-looking, with strong communication and change leadership skills.

• Relevant sector experience may include medical devices or other complex global industries such as electronics, automotive, or manufacturing.

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or relevant professional qualifications preferred.