Team Lead New Product Sourcing

Right Supplier. Right Value

Step into a key leadership role as Team Lead Project Procurement and guide a dedicated team of project procurement managers within Hilti’s Installation Systems Business Unit. You will shape and execute the BU’s project procurement roadmap, ensuring competitive cost structures, strong supply performance, and timely delivery of critical projects. Your focus will be developing your team’s capabilities, driving sourcing excellence, and building strategic supplier partnerships that enable innovation, flexibility, and long‐term supply resilience. You’ll be the strategic voice of supply in one of Hilti’s most innovative BUs, shaping decisions that influence global product launches.
Make a direct impact on our engineered MEP (Mechanical, Electricity and Piping) solutions and the future of our supply network. The products that you source are used in biggest construction projects around the globe (data centres, hospitals, plants, airports, etc). If you are looking for an opportunity to redefine and shape procurement in a rapidly growing global business, this is it!

What You'll do

Team Leadership

• Lead the Project Procurement team (New Product Introduction), providing direction, coaching, and performance management.
• Develop talent, build competencies, and maintain a strong succession pipeline within the project procurement organization.
  Project Procurement Excellence
• Define, implement, and continuously improve global processes and methodologies for new product development and launch from a supply/procurement perspective.
• Lead the supply workstream for a major new product introduction, overseeing supplier selection, early supplier involvement, IP-related topics, and structured project execution while driving strategic negotiations to secure competitive costs and resilient supply.
• Ensure strong supply chain performance for new products by optimizing cost/TCO, availability, quality, investment needs, and capacity.
  Strategic Supply Leadership
• Translate BU strategy for “Time To Market” projects into a robust supply strategy and roadmap.
• Build and strengthen key supplier relationships to enable productivity, innovation, and supply resilience.
• Be a key member of the BU procurement leadership team and help the team to build best-in-class procurement category strategies.
• This role is a defined succession pathway toward senior procurement leadership, supported by targeted development and exposure to global strategic topics.

What You’ll Bring

To help you succeed, we’ll provide you with everything you need so that we’re driving impact together from day one. You’ll find a stable working environment, exceptional support, learning and development, and a great team around you. Here’s what you’ll need to bring with you:

• Master’s degree in mechanical engineering; Supply Chain/Procurement education is a strong plus.
• 10+ years total business experience, including 5+ years in sourcing or project procurement within a global, industrial environment; experience as project manager or team lead is required.
• Broad understanding of sourcing, supply chain, cost and productivity management, and mechanical design/manufacturing fundamentals, paired with a strong analytical approach to evaluating supply risks, cost breakdowns, and improvement levers.
• Deep understanding of supply’s role in new product introduction, global supply networks, and cross functional collaboration in a matrix organization.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills in English, with strong influencing and stakeholder‐management capabilities in a global, intercultural environment.
• Proven team leadership, talent development capability, and a growth‐oriented mindset suited for a future Head of Procurement role.

What’s In It for You

We really value our people, and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this, creating your future to be just how you would want it. Some of our benefits include:

• Connection with a diverse community of over 2,100 colleagues from 70 nationalities in a region where Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland intersect.
• Employee groups actively supporting causes like female empowerment and the LGBTQIA+ community.
• Leisure activities like mountain biking and tennis.
• Opportunities for community engagement both locally and internationally.
• Shared e-bikes, an on-site gym, dining options, learning opportunities, financial guidance, free parking, fuel discounts, workation, sabbatical, home office opportunity, flexible and trust-based working hours, meditation/ relaxation rooms, Hilti tool rental service, massage possibilities, and relocation support.

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

Commitment to Inclusion

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

For further questions, please feel free to contact Nicolas Passaquin - Head of Procurement BU Installation (https://www.linkedin.com/in/passaquin/) – or Monica Garcia-Santos, Talent Acquisition Business Partner, [email protected]
For non-EU/ EFTA citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in Switzerland/ Liechtenstein and note that if you do not own a valid Swiss/ Liechtenstein work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.