Global Head of Procurement

Expected Travel : Up to 50% Requisition ID : 14524   About Teleflex Incorporated   As a global provider of medical technologies, Teleflex is driven by our purpose to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. Through our vision to become the most trusted partner in healthcare, we offer a diverse portfolio with solutions in the therapy areas of anesthesia, emergency medicine, interventional cardiology and radiology, surgical, vascular access, and urology. We believe that the potential of great people, purpose-driven innovation, and world-class products can shape the future direction of healthcare.    Teleflex is the home of Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, LMA™, Pilling™, QuikClot™, Rüsch™, UroLift™ and Weck™ – trusted brands united by a common sense of purpose.   At Teleflex, we are empowering the future of healthcare.  For more information, please visit teleflex.com. Position Summary

The Global Head of Procurement is a critical member of the Global Supply Chain Leadership Team and is responsible for defining and executing the enterprise-wide procurement vision, strategy, and operating model. This leadership role will drive competitive advantage through strategic supplier partnerships, supply continuity, innovation, margin expansion, risk management, sustainability, and digital transformation across the Company's global spend portfolio. The successful candidate will lead a world-class procurement organization that serves as a strategic business partner to Operations, R&D, Commercial, Quality, Finance, and executive leadership. The successful candidate will lead a globally dispersed team responsible for direct and indirect procurement, category management, supplier quality partnership, strategic sourcing, supplier performance management, and procurement excellence. This leader will help shape the future global supply network, ensuring resilience, scalability, and value creation in support of the Company's growth strategy. Principal Responsibilities

Lead Enterprise Procurement Strategy •    Define and execute a global procurement vision aligned with corporate strategy and growth objectives. •    Maintain procurement as a strategic business partner and enterprise value creator. •    Optimize the global supplier network to ensure competitiveness, scalability, resilience, and service excellence. •    Provide executive leadership with insight into market dynamics, inflationary pressures, commodity trends, geopolitical developments, and supply risks. •    Drive optimization of the global supplier network to support business continuity, agility, and long-term competitiveness.   Strategic Sourcing & Value Creation •    Lead global sourcing strategies across direct materials, indirect spend, capital equipment and strategic services. •    Deliver sustainable value creation through cost leadership, productivity initiatives, supplier innovation, process efficiency, and working capital optimization. •    Develop category management strategies that balance cost, quality, service, innovation, risk, and sustainability objectives. •    Drive strategic supplier negotiations, commercial agreements, and long-term partnership models. •    Ensure procurement contributes meaningfully to gross margin expansion and revenue growth objectives.   Supply Resilience & Risk Management •    Build and maintain a resilient global supply network capable of supporting business growth and customer commitments. •    Lead supplier risk management programs encompassing continuity planning, geopolitical risk, sole-source mitigation, regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, and business continuity. •    Develop proactive strategies addressing supply shortages, capacity constraints, inflationary pressures, and market disruptions. •    Establish robust governance processes to monitor supplier performance and risk exposure globally.   Supplier