Director, Global Purchasing

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Reporting to the DVP BU Manager, the Global Purchasing Director defines and leads the global purchasing strategy for CAMECA. The role has worldwide responsibility for procurement activities covering the three production sites in the United States and France, ensuring cost competitiveness, supply continuity, quality, and risk mitigation in support of business objectives.

• Defining, formalizing, and deploying a global purchasing strategy aligned with CAMECA strategic objectives, growth roadmap, and operational priorities.
• Establishing a clear purchasing governance model (decision rights, escalation, global vs. local responsibilities).
• Driving standardization of purchasing policies, procedures, tools, and KPIs across all manufacturing sites.

• Overseeing all procurement activities for the US and French production sites, covering direct materials, components, equipment, and selected indirect spend as defined in scope.
• Consolidating volumes and leveraging global sourcing opportunities to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Ensuring sourcing strategies are robust, competitive, and aligned with production and engineering needs.
• Leading supplier sourcing, qualification, negotiation, and contracting at a global level.
• Defining and managing the global supplier panel, including strategic, critical, and risk-exposed suppliers.
• Driving supplier performance management through clear KPIs (QCD, innovation, sustainability).
• Developing long-term partnerships with strategic suppliers to support innovation, capacity, and reliability.
• Leading continuous cost reduction and value creation initiatives, including should-cost analysis and productivity actions.
• Anticipating and managing supply chain risks (single sourcing, geopolitical exposure, capacity constraints, financial health of suppliers).
• Securing supply continuity for critical materials and technologies.

• Working closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and EHS to ensure purchasing decisions support business and industrial objectives.
• Supporting make-or-buy analyses, industrial footprint decisions, and new product introductions.
• Acting as a key contributor to operational excellence and transformation initiatives.

• Ensuring full compliance with CAMECA and AMETEK purchasing policies, ethical standards, and contractual requirements.
• Promoting responsible purchasing practices, including sustainability, ESG considerations, and supplier code of conduct adherence.

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Purchasing, or Business.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in purchasing/procurement in an industrial, international environment.
• Proven experience managing global suppliers and multi-site procurement.

• Strong negotiation and contract management skills.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain constraints.
• Ability to build and deploy global strategies.
• Strong leadership and influence skills in a matrix organization.
• Excellent communication skills in English (French is a strong plus).
• Data-driven, structured, and results-oriented mindset.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to useAItools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.

CAMECA is a world leader in the design and manufacture of scientific instruments for elemental and isotopic microanalysis. CAMECA is a business unit of AMETEK, Inc., with officeslocatedin Paris, France, and Madison, WI. CAMECA is committed to continuously broadening our product offerings and expanding the range of applications each instrument and technique can address through sustained, long-term R&D investments and close collaborations with leading academic research units.

Today, our products serve a broad range of laboratory and process control applications in end markets that includesemiconductor, nanoscience, environment, geology, nuclear, and material sciences.

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Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market / business considerations, and geographic location.

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AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.5billion.

AMETEK is committed to making a safer, sustainable, and more productive world a reality. We use differentiated technology solutions to solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We employ 22,000colleagues, in 35countries, that are grounded by our core values:
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