Plant Procurement Lead Viseu

Plant Procurement Lead
Viseu
Viseu, Viseu District, Portugal

We are seeking a driven and experienced Plants Procurement Lead, Europe & Africa, Group Non Fish & Indirect Procurement, to strengthen Thai Union’s procurement excellence across our European manufacturing sites.

This is a newly created role with high visibility and impact, designed to integrate, standardize, and elevate procurement practices across our plants — including Poland, Portugal, Germany, France, Ghana, Seychelles, and Lithuania.

If you are motivated by change, operational improvement, and
- functional collaboration, this is your opportunity to make a tangible difference across our European network. .

The role reports to the Head of Non Fish Procurement, Europe & Africa. The role can be based in either Gniewino, Poland or Peniche, Portugal.

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead integration and coordination of local procurement teams across multiple plants in Europe and Africa
• Oversee both direct and indirect reporting lines, managing and supporting local Heads of Procurement and their teams across the plants.
• Implement and enforce procurement policies and compliance procedures across sites, ensuring adherence to global standards.
• Drive standardization of procurement processes and tools across plants to reduce complexity and enhance efficiency.
• Identify and deliver cost savings opportunities through supplier consolidation, spend bundling, and S2P process optimization.
• Support indirect procurement development — implement processes, stakeholder engagement, and supplier management frameworks.
• Support Supplier performance in the plants to drive supply chain and cost efficiencies
• Coordinate CAPEX procurement activities, ensuring compliance and cost control.
• Foster collaboration between plant teams and central/global procurement functions to align goals and share best practices.

Why Choose Us?

• Global Industry Leader: Be part of a globally recognized organization known for its commitment to quality, innovation, and sustainability.
• Our Values: At Thai Union, we uphold a culture defined by passion, humility, and respect. Our team is driven by a responsible, collaborative, and innovative approach, ensuring that our work contributes to meaningful change in the seafood industry.
• Collaborative Environment: Work in a supportive,
  - functional team culture that values collaboration and excellence.
• Impact and Purpose: In this role, you’ll play a key part in shaping how our European plants operate — driving integration, standardization, and cost efficiencies that directly contribute to Thai Union’s global sustainability and transformation goals.

About You:

• Proven experience in procurement, category management, or supply chain within a multinational or
  - plant environment.
• People management experience
• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, with the ability to bridge local and global perspectives.
• Demonstrated success in driving change and standardizing processes.
• Proficiency in SAP and Excel;
  
  
  - driven and analytical mindset.
• Excellent command of English;
  
  other European languages are an advantage.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and influencing without direct authority.
• Assertive yet collaborative, with strong communication and influencing skills.
• Culturally sensitive and adaptable across multiple European sites.
• Goal-oriented, pragmatic, and
  - on with a
  - solving mindset.

About Us:

Thai Union Group, a global seafood leader, the largest canned seafood producer in the world plays a dominant role both as own global brand portfolio as well as through its Private Label (OEM) producer that includes Chicken of the Sea, John West, Petit Navire, Parmentier, Mareblu, King Oscar, Rugen Rish, SELECT, Fisho and Qfresh etc. Thai Union Group is committed to realizing its “Healthy Living, Healthy Oceans” vision. With a focus on health and wellbeing across us, we take our responsibility to sustainable fishing and the marine environment seriously – in 2016 Thai Union launched Sea
Change – our strategy for looking after the oceans and managing our waste, our responsibility to our people working around the globe and the communities we work with. We set ourselves and our peers some challenging targets to be more sustainable and we’re making great progress.

Our values drive how we approach our work and engage with our people and customers. These values are to be passionate, humble, respectful, responsible, collaborative and innovative. We do great work, the right way, in challenging times, but we have a strong team that gets the job done. Our people are full of positivity, resilience, fortitude and humour.

We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and recognized for who they are. This is a critical component of our success. Each of our employees adds value to the company regardless of gender, education, religion, origin, nationality, disability or age.

What we can offer you

• A competitive compensation package, aligned with local market conditions (Poland or Portugal)
• Performance-based bonus
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression within an international group
• An open, collaborative, and supportive work environment focused on innovation and continuous improvement
• The chance to work on
  - site, international projects as part of Thai Union’s European operations

Next Steps

If you’re passionate about making a difference and thrive in a flexible, collaborative setting, we’d love to hear from you!

We will review your application and if we think you meet the criteria of the role, we will reach out.

You will have a call with one of our recruitment team and then if we move to the next stage, we will set up an interview with your potential new manager either face to face or via Teams. Final stage interviews are usually face to face.

Thai Union is committed to providing equality of opportunity. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application, please let us know.