Strategic Buyer

As a Strategic Buyer in our Plastics and Chemicals category, you will be responsible for driving business growth and ensuring effective procurement strategies. Your tasks will cover the full range of strategic, tactical, and operational activities, including minimizing purchasing and production costs, ensuring quality, and driving sustainability initiatives.

Specifically, you will:

• Develop a deep understanding of business needs and requirements in the category
• Act proactively to identify opportunities for cost savings and process improvements
• Support other Buyers and Category Managers in category strategy development
• Create initiatives and opportunities for your area of responsibility
• Drive the RFx process in alignment with category management
• Support and facilitate change implementation and cost-down activities
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders

You should expect to travel 30-40 days per year.

This is an entry-level role where you will develop in the Global Procurement team as a buyer. Your educational background may be technically supplemented with a commercial education, such as an engineer or MSc in Economics & Business Administration. Perhaps you have some professional experience in strategic purchasing. Experience within Plastics and Chemicals is an advantage but not a prerequisite. Additionally, you are an experienced user of SAP, Ariba, and MS Office 365.

You are a good communicator with natural skills of building working relationships, which enables you to work across the organization and operate in a matrix organization.

You thrive on having many contacts across geographic borders and cultures, why fluency in English is a prerequisite. You are a strong negotiator, and it is important that you enjoy an outgoing role where your communication skills and your ability to keep in contact, make clear agreements, and get commitment from others will be crucial to your results.

Your tasks will be challenging and require sound business acumen.

In this role, you will not only get the chance to work in a strategically important position within procurement but also have a unique opportunity to put your mark on our sustainability journey towards reducing our carbon footprint. Given that this is an entry-level position, we promise you that if you're eager to develop yourself, we are able to provide you with the challenges that will lift and develop you. We have excellent career opportunities within the team.

The VELUX Group offers an interesting and varying job with great opportunities for influencing your own future development. We believe in empowering people, and we support this through sharing knowledge, delegating responsibility, and continuously developing our employees.

We are a strong value-based company where commitment, thoroughness, and mutual respect are among our core values, and teamwork and professionalism are essential to the way we work.