Flügger is a proud producer and retailer of paint with a strong legacy, quality products, skilled employees, and loyal customers. At Flügger we have just launched our new strategy Going Green, founded on sustainable production, products & packaging and with ambitious growth and optimization targets and with a strong digitalization agenda.

About Flügger & Procurement at Flügger

Flügger is a proud producer and retailer of paint with a strong legacy, quality products, skilled employees, and loyal customers. At Flügger our Strategy, “Going Green”, is founded on market leadership, sustainability, and ambitious growth targets.

At Flügger, we live our values of Team-Time-Trust, which means working closely together as a team both internally and with external partners & suppliers. We prefer open and honest communication. We are dedicated to making a difference and leading change, for the better.

Procurement is anchored with direct reference to the CEO, working with strategic and operational procurement of both Direct, Indirect and Goods for Resale. We have an ambitious journey ahead of us to deliver on the Flügger strategy - by optimizing our cost base, by supporting top-line growth via Category optimization, sustainable materials, and supplier innovations, and by improving our processes and way-of-working.

Be a part of our journey

As Senior Procurement Partner of the Goods for Resale category, you will have the opportunity to work with our broad portfolio within the tools and accessories categories across all of our production sites and sales countries. These categories are critical for our customers and for Flügger in order to be a full solution provider to the professional painter. You will work with branded products as well as private label and outsourced products (CMO). The categories are in need of a more strategic sourcing strategy. You will be responsible for sourcing optimization and new sustainable solutions within products such as tools, brushes, machines, rollers, tape, wallcovering, filler, outsourced paints etc.

You will join the GFR & Indirect Procurement team and report to Manager, René Wernblad and work closely with the other colleagues in Procurement and stakeholders throughout the organization and across all levels from Shop employees to senior management. You will have wide responsibility areas and work empowered.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Development of category sourcing strategies, cost optimization, risk mitigation and value creation
• Market investigations, price benchmark, commercial modelling, TCO analysis and cost break-down
• Tendering, negotiations
• Contracting & contract management
• Supplier performance management and relations management with key suppliers
• Participate in or drive various functional initiatives to develop Procurement and deliver on the Flügger strategy

Your profile

We expect you to have a strong business acumen securing sustainable cost optimization and value creation and you have a strong result orientation. Strong collaboration and communication skills are central to your success and make you a great team player. We expect you to have a holistic and strategic outlook to secure solutions are optimized in an end-to-end perspective. Additionally, we expect you to have:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with strategic procurement
• Extensive experience within tools and Goods for resale
• Experience with category strategy development & optimization lever deployment
• Strong negotiation and Project management skills
• A Bachelor or master’s degree, in Business Administration, Legal, Economics, Engineering or the like or a strong experience-based background supplemented with procurement training

Interested

Send your application and resume in Danish or English via our career portal as soon as possible and no later than December 31st. We will be reviewing and interviewing on a continous basis.

Application deadline: 31. December 2022, but we review applications on a continous basis
Workplace: Rødovre

Employment rate: Fulltime
Duration: Permanent contract
Position: Senior Procurement Partner

For more information
Contact: René Wernblad
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (+45) 40647539

In Flügger, we look solely at the combination of personal and professional qualifications when assessing a candidate’s eligibility. We value diversity in people, where everyone has the freedom to be themselves with equal opportunities.

About Flügger
Flügger group is an internationally listed company with a turnover of approx. than DKK 2.5 billion. and approx. 2700 employees across borders. About 500 of these work in Denmark. Our job is to develop, produce, market and sell paints, wood protection, wallpaper, painter's tools and much more in a professional quality while also helping our customers find the best solutions. We are not satisfied until our customers are satisfied.