Strategic Purchaser

Can you create high delivery security along with good terms and conditions? Are you experienced in negotiating technical products on Strategic level? Moreover, you see yourself as a natural link between R&D, Procurement and production. Then you may be our new colleague in Procurement.

With reference to our Procurement Manager, you will be part of a team of five employees. Purchasing consist of Strategic and Operational Purchasers. As Strategic Purchaser, you will be the link between Strategic Purchasing, R&D, production and Group Procurement.

Department

You will be part of a positive and informal work environment where humour and team spirit are high priorities. Our foundation is trust, collaboration and knowledge sharing, questions are always welcome. We value the contribution of each individual and work together to create an inspiring and supportive workplace.

Key responsibilities

As Strategic Purchaser your primarily tasks will be, in corporation with category management, to select suppliers and negotiate terms and conditions. You will work closely with both the Procurement team internal and on group level in Kverneland Group. Your focus will be on: 

You will be responsible for quality and costs of purchased parts.

We help you get off to a good start and contribute with sparring, good advice, encouragement, and concrete tools as well as knowledge.

Your profile

To succeed as Strategic Purchaser, you are preferable educated as B.Sc. or M.Sc. with several years of ‘hands on’ Strategic purchasing experience from technology-driven innovation processes and development projects, preferably from the production industry handling technical products. You have a good track record within purchasing and delivery on time. You are fluent and at a high level in both Danish and English, spoken and written.

Personally, you are independent by nature and you like daily progress in your projects hence your natural way of following up and reporting deviations on time. You work in a structured way and driven by the fact that your solutions create value in our production process. We have a changeable everyday life, which underlines the importance of structure, efficiency and a good overview in pressured situations.

As Strategic Purchaser, you get a large interface, your good collaboration and communication skills enables you to work cross-organizational and communicate at a high level at all times.

Kverneland Group Kerteminde AS – an innovation-driven growth company

Kverneland Group Kerteminde AS is an international growth company with a focus on the development and production of the machines and solutions of the future for sustainable agriculture.

Development for the sustainable agriculture of the future

We are a global market leader with a strong portfolio of intelligent systems and solutions in the field of lawn machines for the professional agricultural segment. We have a strong focus on innovation, where our machines contribute to more efficient and gentle food production.

Global view from Funen

We are more than 450 dedicated colleagues in Kerteminde who handle the entire value chain from product development and production to global sales and service. Together, we contribute to solving the challenges of the future in securing global food production. Our global mindset and international outlook foster an inspiring environment that ensures innovation and development.

We offer:

In addition to the salary package, consisting of basic salary, free choice account and pension, we offer the opportunity to enter into a gross mobile scheme, canteen scheme, staff association, art association, etc. Mobile phone and PC are standard equipment.

Are you interested?

We are closed for holidays in weeks 28-30, incoming applications will be processed in August. CV and motivational application are only accepted via the application link.