Head of Parts Procurement, Asia Pacific

Purpose of the position

Head of Parts Procurement Asia Pacific will have overall responsibility of Parts Supply Chain, in Asia Pacific area.

This position is a member of the Parts Procurement Leadership team representing Supply chain function for Asia Pacific, reporting to Director, Parts Procurement & Item Data Management.

The position is assigned to Lead and develop Area Supply chain and supplier base towards world-class performance

Areas of responsibility

• Lead Parts Supply Chain Performance
  Own and develop Parts Supply Chain operations within the Area, ensuring high availability of spare and process parts, short lead times, and competitive cost levels to support aftermarket growth and customer uptime.
• End-to-End Procurement Accountability
  Manage and optimize category purchasing, sourcing and operative procurement with a strong focus on responsiveness, lifecycle cost, and availability of critical spare parts.
• Drive Service Value Creation
  Own and deliver on Valmet’s Strategy by Increasing Savings, Cost Competitive Country Sourcing by localization and improved flexibility, secure On-time delivery and sustainability in supply chain” by balancing cost efficiency with service level excellence and supply resilience for aftermarket needs.
• Customer-Centric Stakeholder Support
  Actively support Sales, Customer Service, and field operations to secure parts availability, fast response times, and high service levels, contributing directly to customer satisfaction and lifecycle business.
• Strategic Alignment & Execution
  Contribute to supply chain strategy development with a strong service perspective and ensure effective translation into actionable plans, focusing on availability, lead time reduction, and inventory optimization.
• Process Excellence & Compliance
  Lead implementation and continuous improvement of global supply chain processes, ensuring high standards in quality, safety, sustainability, and compliance across all service flows.
• Capability & Performance Development
  Build a high-performing team with strong expertise in Parts Procurement management, driving continuous learning in planning, sourcing, and supplier collaboration.
• Global Alignment & Governance
  Act as the Area representative in the Global Supply network, ensuring alignment, knowledge sharing, and adoption of best practices tailored to aftermarket requirements.
• Organizational Development
  Continuously develop the supply chain organization to support growth in the aftermarket business, ensuring scalability, agility, and competence in parts logistics and procurement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  Ensure strong collaboration between Supply Chain, Sourcing, Sales & Customer Solutions, and Production to secure seamless end-to-end parts delivery and improved customer outcomes.
• Resource & Capacity Management
  Ensure optimal allocation of resources to manage demand variability and secure high service levels for spare parts availability.
• Performance Management & KPIs
  Define and follow up on KPIs such as availability, delivery precision, fill rate, inventory turns, and cost efficiency, ensuring alignment with business targets.
• Profitability & CCC Utilization
  Drive effective utilization of the CCC organization with a clear focus on improving profitability, responsiveness, and workload balancing for aftermarket flows.
• Supply Assurance & Delivery Execution
  Ensure reliable sourcing, purchasing, and delivery of all direct and indirect materials and services, with special focus on critical spare parts and urgent customer requirements.
• Supplier Network Development
  Continuously develop supply centers and supplier base to improve flexibility, lead times, quality, and cost competitiveness for aftermarket parts.
• Aftermarket Logistics Excellence
  Support and co-develop Parts logistics operations to support fast, reliable, and cost-efficient delivery of spare parts, including emergency and express deliveries.
• Customer Delivery Performance
  Ensure consistent fulfillment of customer orders with high on-time delivery performance and responsiveness to unplanned and urgent demands.
• Support Product Lifecycle & Cost Efficiency
  Contribute to new product introduction, spare part readiness, and lifecycle management while driving continuous cost improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Head of Parts Procurement, Asia Pacific role is a senior management position which requires a mature person with solid experience in managing large Supply chain operations in an international business environment. In this role, you need to understand the business dynamics of international sales and services.
• This role requires managing and working within a global multicultural team and must demonstrate strong leadership skills with determined approach and have ability to motivate others as the team. Solid communications and negotiation skills are also basic requirement.
• Preferred candidate is known of solid planning and excellent execution of plans. To be successful in this position good insights in Supply Chain.
• We are looking for candidate more than 10 years working experience within this scope, and also with previous experience in working in management role. We expect Engineering and Management degree, relevant IT skills. Fluency in spoken and written English.
• Most importantly we are looking for person with an attitude and genuine drive to make success within Valmet.

When everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With over 19,000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, and serve an even wider base of process industries with our automation systems and flow control solutions. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork. 

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