As Procurement Manager, you own a product category end-to-end, defining the supply strategy to ensure availability, quality, and cost competitiveness. Working closely with suppliers, plants, and cross-functional teams, you drive supply excellence, enable innovation, and play a key role in delivering Hilti’s reliable solutions to our customers.
You will manage a global product category, ensuring a competitive, resilient, and high-quality supply base while supporting innovation and product success.
Key responsibilities include:
Define and implement the global procurement and supply strategy for your product category, including cartridges and gas cans, ensuring availability, quality, and cost competitiveness.
Develop and manage a global supplier network, strengthening partnerships to drive productivity, innovation, and technological leadership.
Lead cost and productivity initiatives (CoGS) using best-in-class supply and value engineering tools such as Design for X, Value Stream Mapping, Production Simulation, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Negotiate supplier contracts and annual pricing agreements.
Ensure supply resilience through capacity planning, investment planning, and risk management.
Contribute to new product introductions as a core member of cross-functional TTM project teams.
Collaborate closely with quality, development, materials management, and global outposts to continuously improve supply performance.
To succeed in this role, you combine strong technical understanding with strategic supplier management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering (mechanical, mechatronics, chemical) or business with strong technical exposure.
Professional experience in procurement or supply chain management within a global or manufacturing environment.
Proven negotiation skills and experience managing supplier relationships or commercial agreements.
Strong analytical capabilities, including experience with cost analysis, system modeling, or value engineering tools (e.g., TCO).
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; fluent in English and German.
We really value our people, and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this, creating your future to be just how you would want it. Some of our benefits include:
Connection with a diverse community of over 2,100 colleagues from 70 nationalities in a region where Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland intersect.
Employee groups actively supporting causes like female empowerment and the LGBTQIA+ community.
Leisure activities like mountain biking and tennis.
Opportunities for community engagement both locally and internationally.
Shared e-bikes, an on-site gym, dining options, learning opportunities, financial guidance, free parking, fuel discounts, workation, sabbatical, home office opportunity, flexible and trust-based working hours, meditation/ relaxation rooms,
Hilti tool rental service, massage possibilities, and relocation support.
Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.
At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.
For further questions, please feel free to contact Simon Martin, Head of Procurement Direct Fastening or Elena Gottardo, Team Lead Talent Acquisition Operations, at [email protected]
