Head of Procurement Excellence

Do you want to work in an inspiring work community in a leading European social and healthcare sector company? If your answer is yes, you could be a new member of our team!

We are looking for Head of Procurement Excellence to Mehiläinen group in Helsinki.

Are you ready to step into a truly transformational leadership role? Reporting directly to our Chief Procurement Officer (CPO), you'll be instrumental in elevating our procurement organization to world-class performance. You'll achieve this by driving cutting-edge strategy, optimizing critical processes, leveraging advanced analytics, and spearheading our digitization efforts. Your mission will be to translate procurement strategy into tangible financial outcomes, champion data-driven decision-making, and build the scalable frameworks that fuel Mehiläinen's ambitious growth and M&A agenda.

Key responsibilities include:

• Strategic Leadership & Performance Management: Defining procurement strategy, setting KPIs, and utilizing market intelligence.
• Operating Model & Process Excellence: Designing and improving end-to-end procurement processes (S2P) and operating models, ensuring governance and compliance.
• Financial Governance & Value Creation: Collaborating with FP&A on savings tracking, managing the procurement initiative pipeline, and providing executive reporting.
• Digitization & Analytics: Developing and executing the digital transformation roadmap, acting as product owner for procurement systems, and building advanced analytics capabilities.
• Organizational Development & Transformation: Building team capabilities, leading change, supporting M&A integration, and managing cross-functional programs.
• The role carries full budget responsibility for the function and will lead a growing team.

Requirements include:

• Education: Master’s degree in a relevant field (Business Admin, Finance, Supply Chain).
• Experience: Minimum 10 years in strategic procurement, supply chain, finance, or consulting leadership, with a proven track record in transformational change, ideally in healthcare or complex multi-site organizations.
• Expertise: Deep understanding of procurement operating models, S2P processes, data/analytics, KPIs, savings methodologies, and financial processes.
• Skills: Strong financial acumen, process excellence (Lean, Six Sigma a plus), program/project management (traditional and agile), comprehensive S2P domain knowledge, digital/analytics/product ownership experience, and excellent executive communication. Professional English proficiency is required.

Personal Success Factors emphasize transformational leadership, strategic and operational balance and that you have been a trusted partner to leadership teams. Your approach will be characterized by financial discipline and strong stakeholder engagement. You have an entrepreneurial and adaptable mindset and you are results-driven.

Please submit your application and CV through our recruitment site latest by April 12th of 2026.

For more information please contact:

Procurement Director Satu Suominen

[email protected]