Senior Procurement Partner

Are you passionate about value engineering and supplier innovation? Are you enthusiastic about sustainability? Are you keen on strategic sourcing and commercially intrigued by optimization? Do you thrive in a company with a strong change agenda and where values of empowerment and open communication are lived every day? Join us in taking Procurement to the next level, working strategically with optimization, risk mitigation and value creation.

We are looking for a Senior Procurement Partner for our Direct Procurement team, to take on strategic procurement responsibility for several large & strategic procurement categories within raw materials.

Take part in the journey

Flügger is a proud producer and retailer of paint with a strong legacy, quality products, skilled employees, and loyal customers. We have an ambitious strategy ‘Going Green’, founded on sustainable production, products, and packaging. Further, it is founded on ambitious growth and optimization targets, and a strong digitalization agenda.

A few specific examples on the Flügger Going Green strategy:

• Flügger have ecolabels on +80% of our own produced paint products (+90% on Flügger branded products).
• Increased use of recycled plastic in our buckets.
• Focused efforts with Flügger’s suppliers, on sustainability topics such as mass balance certification, biobased raw materials, reduced Co2 footprint and the reporting requirements needed to support this journey.

Procurement is anchored as a group function with direct reference to the CEO, working with strategic and operational procurement of both Direct spend, Indirect spend and Goods for Resale.

As Senior Procurement Partner you will have responsibility for several of the large and strategic direct spend procurement categories. Focus could be on the categories of fillers and additives, alternatively, other strategic categories that suit your capabilities.

You will join the Direct Procurement team and report to Senior Procurement Manager, Søren Vandsø Jacobsen and work closely with other colleagues in Procurement and stakeholders across the organization including R&D, Planning, Product & production sites.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Development of category sourcing strategies.
• Market insights & supplier search and approval
• Contracting and contract management
• Supplier relations management for innovation, cost out & sustainability.
• Resilient supply chains, with focus on security of supply and supplier quality for raw materials (from produced raw material to produced Flügger products).
• Project and stakeholder management – managing high complexity stakeholders and high category impact on production and end-customers.
• Ensure competitive pricing and drive cost efficiency initiatives (Total Cost of Ownership approach)

Your profile

We expect you to have a strong business acumen & negotiation skill to secure sustainable cost optimization. We expect you to have a strong drive and result orientation. Additionally, we expect you to have a strong interest in raw materials and technical flair, to work with R&D and suppliers on material substitution, innovations, and sustainability opportunities. Strong collaboration and communication skills are central. Additionally, we expect you to have:

• Minimum of 5-10 years of experience with strategic procurement of direct spend, preferably from production companies.
• Strong project management skills and analytical skills.
• A Master’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering, or the like.

We offer

At Flügger Procurement you will find a great team of skilled and experienced colleagues, a professional and encouraging work environment, and a culture for knowledge sharing.

Given the business-critical nature of this role, you will get exposure towards executive management and the role provides great opportunities to further develop your career and skillsets.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Join an ambitious, growing, listed company with Scandinavian roots and an international outlook. 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.

Application deadline: 12. July 2023. Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis, and we will hire as soon as we have found our new colleague.
Workplace: Rødovre

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

For more information
Contact: Søren Vandsø Jacobsen
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (+45) 27532930

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.