Europe Utilities & Sustainability Manager

TL;DR

Europe Utilities & Sustainability Manager: Lead purchasing excellence across the EU, driving process harmonization, simplification, and strategic sourcing initiatives with an accent on sustainability, utility strategies, and commodity management. Focus on heading the sourcing excellence team, overseeing regional project consolidation, and optimizing systems and P2P automation.

Location: Milan, IT

Company

Global cabling solutions provider leading the energy transition and digital transformation, with almost 150 years of experience, 30,000 employees, 108 plants, and 26 R&D centres in over 50 countries.

What you will do

• Lead purchasing excellence across the EU, driving process harmonization, simplification, and continuous improvement.
• Act as regional focal point for sustainability, managing circularity initiatives and defining/implementing utility strategies.
• Head the sourcing excellence team, ensuring alignment with global guidelines across all categories.
• Drive strategic sourcing initiatives to unlock cost opportunities and support commodity strategies.
• Oversee regional project consolidation (PMO), fostering innovation and execution excellence.
• Ensure compliance, risk management, and KPI governance at regional level.
• Lead systems optimization and P2P automation in collaboration with global teams.
• Govern commodity management strategies and strengthen contract management frameworks.

Requirements

• Strong experience in procurement excellence, sourcing, and category management within a complex, international environment.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional and cross-country initiatives, aligning multiple stakeholders.
• Solid background in sustainability, risk management, and compliance within procurement.
• Strategic mindset with hands-on capability in process optimization, digitalization, and automation (P2P).
• Strong project management skills, with experience in PMO and driving innovation programs.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with ability to influence at regional and global level.

Culture & Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) as part of Social Ambition 2030.
• Prioritizes talent development where people feel respected, included, and free to express their potential.
• All managers and HRs ensure DE&I policies are respected and unconscious biases are mitigated in recruiting.