Our client is a leading European Travel Goods & Luggage company.

Responsibilities: 

• Make sure that purchasing strategies are implemented at suppliers and to lead the supplier agenda covering quality, delivery performance, sustainability and cost development and assure that suppliers are delivering and performing into new development projects.
• Lead the purchasing team activities (Quality Engineers and Supply Planners) and setting the direction for supplier action plans.
• Total supplier responsible and main company's contact
• Assure that category purchasing strategies are implemented at supplier base
• Main responsible for driving supplier KPI performance covering quality, delivery performance, sustainability and cost development
• Set the direction, lead and co-ordinate the purchasing team supplier agenda
• Responsible for driving supplier development in general
• Support new product development projects from a purchasing point of view
• Feed and challenge the development projects with new technology- & material innovation opportunities from the supplier base
• Contribute to the development of category purchasing strategies by giving input of ongoing activities at supplier base
• Drive and co-ordinate all supplier related communication from the company
• Drive commercial negotiations and agreement settlement with suppliers in alignment with category purchasing strategies and in close collaboration with category manager
• Drive KPI performance at supplier covering quality, delivery performance, sustainability and cost development
• Drive supplier development
• Set right prioritization to the site purchasing team in driving the supplier agenda
• Clear communication and co-ordination with supplier and product development in the RFQ phase and during the development phase throughout the whole project for assigned businesses

Requirements:

• Higher education, preferably within business economics/engineering/logistics or comparable working experience
• 5 years’ experience from operational and/or tactical sourcing in an international environment, preferably for own production facilities
• Experience from international negotiations
• Good technical understanding and interest in general
• Networking skills and experience from working with cross-functional teams
• Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
• Experience in ERP system logic (INFOR M3 preferable)
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong business acumen
• High integrity
• Driving and selling personality
• Strong communicator and decision maker