Director, Indirect Procurement - IMEA 1

About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com .

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognise unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

How You'll Make an Impact

As the Director, Procurement – IMEA, you will help translate enterprise procurement strategy into regional execution across India, Middle East and Africa while delivering measurable business value, strengthening supplier partnerships, and advancing procurement capabilities across the region. In this role, you will:

- Develop and execute multi-year indirect procurement and category strategies aligned with enterprise and regional priorities.

- Drive cost savings, cost avoidance, working capital improvement, supplier innovation, and process efficiency across indirect spend categories.

- Lead and develop the regional indirect procurement organization and provide matrix leadership across Direct, Logistics, and Third-Party Manufacturing procurement activities.

- Lead strategic supplier relationships, complex negotiations, risk mitigation initiatives, and long-term commercial agreements.

- Partner with Operations, Finance, IT, Engineering, Legal, and Commercial teams to deliver procurement solutions and change initiatives.

- Champion governance, digital enablement, source-to-pay adoption, analytics, and continuous improvement across IMEA.

Required Qualifications that Enable Your Success

- Bachelor's degree in Business , Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.

- 15+ years of progressive procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, supply chain, or commercial experience in a complex industrial or manufacturing environment.

- Demonstrated success leading regional procurement strategies and teams across multiple countries and cultures.

- Expertise in indirect procurement, supplier relationship management, contract negotiation, category management, and procurement governance.

- Strong financial acumen including cost modeling, total cost of ownership analysis, business case development, and value tracking.

- Proven ability to influence senior leaders and deliver results through direct and matrixed teams.

- Experience assessing and mitigating supplier, market, geopolitical, regulatory, and operational risks.

- Experience leading change and driving adoption of enterprise standards, systems, and processes.

- Proficiency with Enterprise Resource Planning systems, source-to-pay platforms, procurement analytics, and dashboards.

- Excellent communication skills and willingness to travel regionally and internationally as needed.

- High standards of ethics, integrity, compliance, and accountability.

Preferred Qualifications that Drive You Forward

- Master of Business Administration or other advanced degree in a related discipline.

- Experience mentoring and coaching senior procurement professionals.

- Leadership of procurement transformation initiatives, operating model changes, or governance improvements.

- Experience building and executing enterprise-wide procurement strategies.

- Exposure to sustainability, Environmental Social and Governance programs, or responsible sourcing initiatives.

- Advanced experience with SAP, Ariba, Coupa, Power BI, or Business Objects platforms.

- Formal training in strategic negotiation, change leadership, or advanced procurement methodologies.

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their ethnic origin, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic.