Lead, India Sourcing

Lead, India Sourcing

Location: Mumbai, MH, IN

Country/Region: IN

Job Area: Supply & Trading

Business Unit: Feedstock Sourcing & Trading

Are you our next creator of change?

This is for you who wants to have a real impact on creating a healthier planet for our children every day. At Neste, you will be working for the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. Let’s create transformation for a sustainable future together.

We are looking for a Lead, India Sourcing for our Sourcing and Trading team at our Mumbai location.

You will focus on design, implement, and manage sourcing strategies for India to secure a reliable and sustainable supply of feedstock aligned with Neste’s global strategy, optimizing costs and logistics. Together with you and your expertise, we can make an impact today and keep our promises for tomorrow.

Reasons to join

Real impact right now: We work in an inspiring and evolving business environment, where everything we do serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. To drive a growing impact as a global leader in renewable and circular solutions we live by our values every day; we care, we have courage, we cooperate.

Safety and caring: We value safety always and everywhere. We want our work to feel good and do good. At Neste, we nurture a culture where everyone is welcome and feels safe, respected and encouraged to be their unique true selves.

Exciting growth: Transformation brings new possibilities and fosters our courage and curiosity. As a global growing company we support personal development with versatile learning and career opportunities. Collaboration is the key, and we believe in flexible, smart ways of working.

More about the job

Your role in our team / in creating a sustainable future

• Build and Manage Supply Ecosystem: Own senior level supplier relationships, expand volume potential by building a resilient and cost competitive supply chain while enhancing Neste’s market positioning.
• Develop Sourcing Strategy: Design and implement sourcing strategy for the region, aligning Regulatory and Sustainability agenda along with global feedstock strategy.
• Cost Competitiveness: Optimizes overall logistics options and negotiates favorable contracts, reducing costs and improving profitability and EBITA optimization through strategy execution.
• Drive Market Advantage: Provide market analysis, identify trading opportunities, and promote sustainability within the supply chain. Develop tools and share information on market intelligence that impact directly or indirectly the feedstock sourced in India.
• Operational Excellence: Lead Supplier Negotiations, close collaboration with Feedstock lead on book, drive cross-functional projects and contracts execution.
• Feedstock Development: Secures a diverse feedstock supply chain, crucial for Neste’s business model balancing the need to ensure a consistent supply of feedstock with the requirement to optimize costs and maintain sustainability standards in a dynamic market environment.
• Enhances Neste’s market positioning by building strong supplier relationships and identifying new trading opportunities.

Keys to success in this role / The best combination to succeed in this role

• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in business, engineering, environment, or similar field
• 8-10 years’ experience in procurement or biofuel feedstock supply/trading (Oil & seed commodity markets knowledge a plus).
• Proven track record in business models, partnerships and supply chain management.
• Influential leader with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Adaptable, flexible and self-directed with strong leadership presence
• Exposure to physical logistics, regulatory & sustainability concepts.

Other strengths we value

Neste values:

• Support and demonstrate Neste’s core values of Responsibility, Innovation, Cooperation, and Excellence that underpin its successful business.
• Live up to professional commitments, with a passionate belief that sustainable, low-carbon, and clean-burning fuels are integral to managing both climate change and pollution.
• Provide forward-thinking and pioneering solutions, befitting a world-leading renewable fuels company, that give real value to customers and create enthusiasm for Neste’s products.
• Respect, learn from, and contribute to the international group of employees and customers that enable Neste’s success.
• Strive for excellence in every professional activity to achieve world-class operational and financial performance.

Achiever:

• Consistent leader who leads by example, promoting delivery while maintaining the right level of control.
• Establishes concrete targets and leads the way toward achieving those targets, monitoring performance systematically.
• Understands that results are primarily achieved through group success, and challenges individuals and teams to exceed expectations.
• Cooperation builder:
• Builds a trustful and communicative culture, soliciting opinions and inputs to create an optimal working environment.
• Bridges management and perspective gaps across organizations (both inside and outside the Company).

Renewer:

• Encourages new ideas and methods that continuously work toward long-term goals.
• Tolerates uncertainty and promotes learning opportunities and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Let’s get you started

Wondering whether we are a match or not? Take a short test at neste.com/game.

We will do our best to contact you within 2 weeks after the application time has ended.

The recruitment process will include interviews and a possible aptitude assessment. The first interviews are preliminarily scheduled to take place on week 4. (The person selected for the position must pass a health examination test. A security clearance is obtained with your consent.)

About Neste:

Neste creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. With over 75 years of refining expertise, we are now the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. We have set aspirational targets for climate, biodiversity, human rights, as well as our supply chain and raw materials. Our ambition is to make the Porvoo oil refinery in Finland the most sustainable refinery in Europe. Together with our partners we are aiming at a carbon neutral and nature positive value chain by 2040. Our success is created by 5,400 professionals working in 16 countries. Read more: neste.com. Get inspired by our story.