Merck KGaA Posted November 7, 2026

Director GES Procurement Transformation (all genders)

Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland FULL_TIME
Procurement Director
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About this opportunity

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

YOUR ROLE: In your role as Director GES Procurement Transformation (all genders), you lead the design, delivery and adoption of an enterprise source-to-pay agentic automation portfolio.

You translate procurement and finance priorities into a practical roadmap of AI-enabled capabilities, coordinate multiple cross-functional workstreams, and ensure that solutions deliver measurable value while meeting security, compliance, risk, data, and control requirements.

You act as the accountable business product leader for source-to-pay agentic automation, connecting procurement, finance, business functions, technology, data and AI, legal, risk, compliance, and external partners.

WHO YOU ARE:

Bachelor’s or Master´s degree in Business, Finance, Change Management, IT or a related field

At least ten years of change or project management experience on complex, global technology or process transformation programmes

Proven success leading stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness and adoption across countries or business units; able to influence senior leaders in a matrix organization

Strong knowledge of structured change methods, impact assessment, learning, communications, organizational readiness, governance and risk management

Procurement and Accounts Payable transformation experience is preferred, including invoice processing, automation, cloud or ERP implementations; Procurement Digitalization, Tail spend automation

Experience implementing cloud enterprise solutions and working with implementation partners, process owners and IT teams

Excellent facilitation, writing, presentation and training skills for diverse global audiencesData-driven and analytical, with the ability to measure readiness, adoption and benefits; collaborative, adaptable and effective across cultures and time zones

YOUR MAIN BENEFITS:

Health and well-being: Get access to private medical care, life insurance, and sports card, receive prepaid lunch card

Work-Life balance: Enjoy additional paid days off, flexible working hours.

Learning and Development: Take advantage of co-financing for language courses, trainings, and certifications as well as other development opportunities

Employee support and engagement: Benefit from Employee Assistance Program and join employee engagement groups for support and connection.

Information on how we process your personal data for recruitment purposes, you can find on the registration form in our Recruitment Portal.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!

Job details

Seniority
Director
Function
Procurement
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Procurement role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 16 comparable Director Procurement roles across 10 biopharma companies.

16Comparable roles tracked
12Currently active
10Companies hiring similar roles
9Countries represented

Salary context

6 of 16 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Peer group range $206,100 – $244,150 (median $217,375)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 16 comparable roles

United States7
United Kingdom2
Singapore1
Denmark1
France1
China1

+ 3 more countries

Seniority mix

16 of 16 peers have a known seniority level

Director14
Senior Director1
Principal1

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 16 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.

Similar opportunities

The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

60%similar
AstraZeneca Warsaw, Poland Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
45%similar
Novo Nordisk Shanghai, China Director
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
UCB Atlanta, Georgia, United States Director
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Teva Pharmaceuticals Parsippany, United States Director
Same function Same seniority
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Teva Pharmaceuticals Harlow, United Kingdom Director
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc (USA) Sleepy Hollow, United States Director
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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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AstraZeneca · Warsaw, Poland · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
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UCB · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc (USA) · Sleepy Hollow, United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
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Neurocrine Biosciences Inc. · US CA San Diego, United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.