Do you have solid experience with strategic sourcing, and do you want to be part of a newly established group function in a global company?

As Strategic Sourcing Manager at Actona Group, you become part of a newly established group function in the company’s HQ in Denmark. With direct report to the VP for Strategic Sourcing and Indirect Spend, you become responsible for the strategic sourcing of the global raw materials for five upholstery productions in Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine. The overall goal is to benefit from economies of scale and synergies, while optimising the global raw material sourcing processes across the entities.

In addition, your areas of responsibilities include analysis of the raw material market to create insight and a professional foundation for decisions across Actona Group.

Your main tasks are:

• Strategic sourcing
  • Strategic sourcing of raw materials, including, e.g., foam, wood, and metal for production
  • Analysing and following the raw material markets and price development
  • Data analysis and reporting to evaluate current sourcing practices and identify opportunities for optimisation
  • Create an overview of different manufacturing methods at the upholstery productions to ensure optimal and balanced raw material sourcing
  • Optimise costs

• Contract handling
  • Analysis and negotiation of framework agreements to receive the best possible terms and conditions
  • Negotiation of complex solutions to ensure competitive prices and conditions in framework agreements

• Stakeholder management
  • Build and maintain good relations with internal and external stakeholders, primarily the buying departments at the upholstery productions while building structure and processes with relevant stakeholders
  • Work efficiently in a cross-functional team and ensure buy-in for the new direction
  • Build bridges between different cultures – experience from Eastern Europe is an advantage

Your qualifications are at least five years of documented experience from a similar position with a tried and tested toolbox within strategic sourcing, being familiar with the raw material markets, and having a basic understanding of production. Moreover, experience with professional sourcing management from the production industry is an advantage. You are strong-willed, visionary, have ambitious goals, and have a passion for optimising, building relationships and working in a new team environment.

You have a relevant cand.merc. degree, for example, within sourcing and supply chain management or similar.

As a person, you are analytical and curious about the existing conditions, as well as future tendencies. Additionally, you are energetic, extroverted, and able to create good and loyal relationships both internally in the company and externally with collaborators and suppliers.

Actona Group offers a position in a global and well-established company with great opportunities for personal and professional development. In the position of Strategic Sourcing Manager, it will also be possible to advance within the role and gain managerial responsibility.

Travelling: 50 to 60 travel days annually.

Domicile: Within driving distance to the company headquarters in Tvis, near Holstebro, Denmark.

For more details about the job or the company, please contact Research Consultant Kristina Østergaard, Unique Human Capital, on M: +45 24 90 09 21. All applications must be in English and are treated confidentially.