Head of Indirect Procurement Operations

Overview

Head of Indirect Procurement Operations at Roche India, responsible for operational leadership and excellence for global indirect procurement delivery.

What you'll do

• Provide vision and structural leadership for delivery of global indirect services.
• Lead multiple procurement teams and ensure alignment between global strategy and execution.
• Drive operational excellence across people, process, and technology, including harmonization across categories.
• Own end-to-end operational lifecycle from requisition to execution across multiple indirect categories.
• Manage operational performance through SLA/KPI management and continuous improvement.
• Lead digital transformation and rollout of self-service procurement tools, including agentic AI/automation adoption.

What you'll need

• Have 15+ years of procurement experience in strategic and operational procurement.
• Have experience in indirect services categories, ideally in a matrix organization.
• Demonstrate success building, cultivating, and managing global large and senior teams.
• Show leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and influencing skills.
• Have strong mindset for digital transformation, agentic AI/automation adoption, and lean process improvement.
• Hold a university degree; business or life science degree preferable.
• Fluency in English to business level.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.