Global Procurement Manager - Ingredients

Position snapshot

• Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


• Company: Nestlé Global Procurement Division


• Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%


• Type of contract: Permanent

What we offer at Nestlé

• Global category management with end-to-end accountability for strategy, sourcing, and value creation.


• Collaborative partnerships with senior stakeholders across R&D, Quality, and global businesses


• A dynamic international environment empowering you to learn, develop and grow.


• Opportunities to develop your career across different brands, businesses, functions, and regions.


• Best in class procurement organizations to develop your procurement expertise and enhance your global experiences.

Position Summary

As Global Procurement Manager – Ingredients, you will manage a highly specialised global category that plays a critical role in product innovation, natural processing solutions, and supply resilience. You will partner closely with R&D, Quality, factories, and strategic suppliers to develop long-term category strategies, qualify alternative sources, manage total cost of ownership, and enable innovation across food and beverage applications.

Global Procurement at Nestlé

As a strategic partner to our businesses, we drive sustainable growth and unlock long-term value. With over 40 different nationalities based across our three dynamic hubs in Switzerland, Panama, and Malaysia, we operate on a truly global scale. With a strong focus on innovation and deep commitment to sustainability, we’re shaping the future of procurement. Our diverse teams lead with purpose, ensuring value creation through responsibly sourced supply across a broad range of direct and indirect categories.

Join us and Be a Force for Good.

A day in a life of a Global Procurement Manager – Ingredients

Reporting to the Global Category Leader, you will define the direction, objectives, and relevant success metrics, ensuring a seamless roadmap from strategy to implementation.

• Define and implement the category strategy, balancing cost, quality, supply continuity, innovation, and total cost of ownership.


• Partner with cross-functional teams (R&D, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Supply Chain) to align procurement strategies with business needs.


• Manage long-term strategic supplier partnerships in a niche category where technical capability, IP, and supply resilience are critical.


• Drive supplier qualification projects that may require extensive technical trials, factory validation, and cross-functional alignment over extended timelines.


• Identify and mitigate supply risks, particularly where materials are single-source or dependent on highly specialised supplier capabilities.


• Support innovation by enabling enzyme technologies that can help deliver the same taste, texture, and stability while reducing reliance on certain chemical ingredients.

What Makes You Successful

• Experience in strategic procurement, category management, technical sales, or supplier management within food manufacturing, nutrition, health science, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, or specialty ingredients.


• Strong understanding of food manufacturing, formulations, food science, bio-transformation, fermentation, or enzyme-related technologies is highly valued.


• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects involving R&D, Quality, manufacturing, and external suppliers.


• Commercial mindset with the ability to understand cost structures, assess supplier proposals, and manage long-term value creation.


• Strong supplier and stakeholder relationship management skills, including communication, negotiation, influencing and presentation.


• Business Proficient in English; proficiency in additional languages such as Mandarin, French, is beneficial.

If your profile matches our needs, we look forward to receiving your application in English.

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