Strategic Purchaser, Electric Motors

Hoyer, Hadsten
Are you experienced within tactical and strategic sourcing? Are you interested in working in an international company with strong ambitions and great teamwork? Then maybe you should be the next to join our supply chain department and impact our most important assignments within strategic sourcing and price negotiation.

We are an organization with activities in Europe, Asia and North America and in your everyday work life you will meet colleagues from all over the world. Hoyer is characterized by a strong drive and ambitions to always deliver the best service to our customers. At the same time we want to be a good place to work – every day – and employee satisfaction is high on the agenda. You are at eye level with your boss and you get to work across departments and national borders.

As part of our strategy and to ensure our business resilience, operational continuity and competitiveness, we are establishing a new sourcing management capability in Hoyer. Therefore we are looking for a Strategic Purchaser to join our supply chain department located in Hadsten, Denmark. Candidates able work from our other headquarter in Ningbo in China would also be considered.

As a Strategic Purchaser you will play an important role of expanding our knowledge about motor manufacturing landscape globally and identifying new possibilities for strategic partnerships.

You will join an international team with 15 dedicated colleagues and work closely with operational purchase and managers. You will be the first point of contact between us and potential new suppliers.

The position includes travelling to existing and potential new suppliers around the world and participation in fairs.

Responsibilities with strategic importance.
Among others, your tasks will include:

• Perform market research to identify potential new strategic suppliers that meet our product, commercial and risk objectives.
• Engage in contact with prospects through introduction meetings and request for information and quotation.
• Perform benchmarking, should cost analysis, raw material mix and composition analysis.
• Perform first supplier validation on site including technological capability, manufacturing development, capacity assessments and strategic fit with Hoyer.
• Order samples from existing and new potential suppliers and coordinate performance test program to benchmark price to quality between suppliers.
• Create management level reports.
• Handle daily requests for quotations for new projects and negotiate competitive commercial terms for Hoyer.
• Support other colleagues in the department with various procurement tasks.
• Lead and support cost optimization initiatives at existing suppliers and support annual negotiations of contracts.

We are looking for a new colleague with the following qualities that thrives in an energetic and ambitious work environment:

• Experience in sourcing new suppliers on a global scale.
• Able to travel around 40-50 days a year.
• Very good negotiation skills.
• Experience working with technical products is an advantage.
• Experience in supplier audits is an advantage.
• Educated purchaser, supply chain, general business or engineering education.
• You have good communication skills in English and understand the importance of relationship building with your business partners.
• You are detail-oriented and put emphasis on facts as a base for discussion and decision making.
• You are a good team player and would like to join a diverse, dynamic and hard-working department.
• You have an analytical approach towards problem solving.
• Intermediate Excel knowledge.

We offer you:

• Good teamwork.
• Modern company culture.
• International working environment.
• Strong brand within electric motors.
• Committed colleagues.
• Exciting and versatile work tasks.
• Possibility to work from home within the company policy, but not remote work as general.

If you are the right candidate please send your application and CV. Applications are accepted in English or Danish.

Please apply as soon as possible as we continuously invite relevant candidates for job interviews

If you have any questions, please contact

Henrik Friche
Strategic Purchaser

Phone: +45 8765 6491

Phone: +45 6057 8911

Application deadline:
As soon as possible