Purchaser

• Are you enthusiastic about delivering advanced products to keep people safe on land, at sea, in air and in space?
• And do you want to challenge your abilities to ensure deliveries through close collaboration with suppliers and internal stakeholders
• And do you want to be challenged and mentored to grow, to develop your skills and yourself within procurement activities in the complex defense industry?

After 3 x easy “Yes’” – please read on (or get in touch to know more).

The job

As a purchaser in the defense industry, you will be the focal point of combining the knowledge throughout our organization to ensure deliveries on time. This responsibility requires detail orientation but will open for the ever-changing environment in a high-tech company delivering critical infrastructure to the entire world.

Our industry demands an understanding of sense of urgency where relationships with both internal and external stakeholders are essential. We strive to collaborate cross-functionally to ensure evaluations of all possibilities when facing obstacles. This enables a great environment for swift decision-making while ensuring that you will be challenge according to your needs.

In your daily work you will handling purchase orders, quality issues and support our sourcing team in negotiating agreements. Furthermore, you will be working on our ambitious compliance programs to ensure that we reach our CSR targets.

We work in the Supply Chain and Quality Organization and is composed of 10+ highly engaged diverse colleagues focusing on procurement. We are the backbone in ensuring that Terma Group’s growth targets can be met.

What is our company like?

We are an international company standing for world class expertise, delivering complex and high-tech products. We value our colleagues and our meaningful contributions to securing people through advanced technology.

Our company culture is autonomous and engaging, and we acknowledge the importance of flexibility in a great working environment. On our various locations, we offer various social activities to bring all of our colleagues together.

In all: Terma is on an inspiring journey, where we grow in abilities, complexities, and size – and we hope you would like to be a part of this journey with professional and personal growth as a gratifying key element.

How to succeed in this position?

We expect (or hope) you have:

• Experience with operational procurement activities including external communication.
• Knowledge and understanding of navigating an ERP system.
• A sense of urgency and willingness to act swiftly when obstacles occur.

Our industry is demanding, and we need creative minds – we are therefore active about your professional development. This is exemplified in more than half of our Procurement team is developed through our Talent Program. We will support you in building knowledge and plan the next steps of your role in Terma together with you.

What do we hope to find in you?

We expect you to follow through on your tasks, and not shunned by a complex and highly dynamic environment – instead, please show us that you can learn as well as challenge our processes with ways to improve them.

You want to support the team and take pride in communicating actively and acting proactively towards your teammates and stakeholders. You are structured and well-articulated in writing and speaking, as a minimum in English, preferable also in Danish.

Any unanswered questions?

Feel free to contact Jonas Søgaard Knudsen, Director, on +45 61688907 or [email protected] in case of any further questions about this position.
We look forward to receiving your application and CV. To ensure that your application will reach us and is properly processed, we only accept applications via www.Terma.com.

Bear in mind that candidates must be able to obtain a security clearance by the Danish Defence Intelligence Service. This entails that candidates, as a minimum, have stayed within NATO/EU for the last 7 years only interrupted by short stays abroad.

The high-tech and innovative Terma Group develops products and systems for defense, non-defense and security applications, including command and control systems, radar systems, self-protection systems for aircraft and vessels, space technology, and aerostructures for the aircraft industry.

Headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, Terma has subsidiaries and operations across Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia Pacific as well as a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, Terma Inc., with offices in Washington D.C., Georgia and Texas.