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Reporting to the DVP BU Manager, the Global Purchasing Director defines and leads the global purchasing strategy for CAMECA. The role has worldwide responsibility for procurement activities covering the three production sites in the United States and France, ensuring cost competitiveness, supply continuity, quality, and risk mitigation in support of business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Global Purchasing Strategy & Governance

• Defining, formalizing, and deploying a global purchasing strategy aligned with CAMECA strategic objectives, growth roadmap, and operational priorities.
• Establishing a clear purchasing governance model (decision rights, escalation, global vs. local responsibilities).
• Driving standardization of purchasing policies, procedures, tools, and KPIs across all manufacturing sites.

 Procurement Operations & Spend Management

• Overseeing all procurement activities for the US and French production sites, covering direct materials, components, equipment, and selected indirect spend as defined in scope.
• Consolidating volumes and leveraging global sourcing opportunities to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Ensuring sourcing strategies are robust, competitive, and aligned with production and engineering needs.

Supplier Management & Performance

• Leading supplier sourcing, qualification, negotiation, and contracting at a global level.
• Defining and managing the global supplier panel, including strategic, critical, and risk-exposed suppliers.
• Driving supplier performance management through clear KPIs (QCD, innovation, sustainability).
• Developing long-term partnerships with strategic suppliers to support innovation, capacity, and reliability.

Cost, Value Creation & Risk Management

• Leading continuous cost reduction and value creation initiatives, including should-cost analysis and productivity actions.
• Anticipating and managing supply chain risks (single sourcing, geopolitical exposure, capacity constraints, financial health of suppliers).
• Securing supply continuity for critical materials and technologies.

Cross-functional Collaboration & Business Support

• Working closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and EHS to ensure purchasing decisions support business and industrial objectives.
• Supporting make-or-buy analyses, industrial footprint decisions, and new product introductions.
• Acting as a key contributor to operational excellence and transformation initiatives.

Compliance & Ethics

• Ensuring full compliance with CAMECA and AMETEK purchasing policies, ethical standards, and contractual requirements.
• Promoting responsible purchasing practices, including sustainability, ESG considerations, and supplier code of conduct adherence.

Requirements

Education & experience:

• Master's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Purchasing, or Business.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in purchasing/procurement in an industrial, international environment.
• Proven experience managing global suppliers and multi-site procurement.

Professional knowledge & abilities

• Strong negotiation and contract management skills.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain constraints.
• Ability to build and deploy global strategies.
• Strong leadership and influence skills in a matrix organization.  
• Excellent communication skills in English (French is a strong plus).
• Data-driven, structured, and results-oriented mindset.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs. 

About the Business Unit

CAMECA is a world leader in the design and manufacture of scientific instruments for elemental and isotopic microanalysis. CAMECA is a business unit of AMETEK, Inc., with offices located in Paris, France, and Madison, WI. CAMECA is committed to continuously broadening our product offerings and expanding the range of applications each instrument and technique can address through sustained, long-term R&D investments and close collaborations with leading academic research units. Today, our products serve a broad range of laboratory and process control applications in end markets that include semiconductor, nanoscience, environment, geology, nuclear, and material sciences.   

For more information, visit www.ametek.com/  and www.cameca.com/