Junior Strategic Buyer

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Jr. Strategic Buyer – Plastics and Chemicals Global Procurement

Are you looking for an opportunity to make an impact in a Global Procurement organization, which plays a central role in the sustainable development of market-leading products?
This is an entry level position but we promise you if you show potential and results you have a great opportunity to develop yourself within strategic purchasing.
Would you like to find out what a difference it makes to work for a company that shows a strong commitment to investing its corporate values in the leadership of people?
Would you like to work with some of our strategically important suppliers, and are you excited to play a key role in securing our future performance and ambitious growth targets?
Then you might be the Jr. Strategic buyer that we are looking for!

In this role, you will be part of VELUX Global Procurement and you will report directly to the Category Manager.

Your challenges

As Jr. Strategic Buyer in our Plastics and Chemicals category, you will be responsible for ensuring good business solutions for the VELUX Group. Your tasks will cover the full range of strategic, tactical, and operational tasks. You will be co-responsible for minimizing our purchasing and production costs and ensuring that our development projects are accomplished in the right quality, at the right time, and at the right price. The successful candidate will achieve this through strong relations with external suppliers as well as internal stakeholders and by pro-active execution of the overall purchasing strategy within your product area. At the VELUX Group, we are on an exciting journey focusing on sustainability and bringing down our carbon footprint, and as a Strategic Buyer, you will have the chance to play a key role in this mission. Order handling is not part of the operational tasks of this role, but is handled by our factories in the US, Europe, and China.

More specifically, you will:

• Develop in the category (ies) to understand business needs and requirements
• Acts proactively to understand the business needs and requirements
• Support other Buyers and Category Managers on category strategy development
• Create initiatives and opportunities for their area of responsibility.
• Drive RFx process in alignment with category management in supervision
• Support/Facilitate change implementation and cost down activities
• Build and maintain good relations with suppliers as well as internal stakeholders

You should expect 30-40 traveling days per year.

Your qualifications
This is an entry level role where you develop in the Global Procurement team as buyer. Your educational background may be technically supplemented with a commercial education like 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 used to working with many processes and procedures and used to keeping an overview of your tasks in a well-structured manner.

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.

Since you will be working with forecasting and data analysis to decide on proper actions and solutions, it is important that you possess strong analytical skills and attention to detail. You thrive on being able to plan and drive your own tasks and ensure the necessary progress also during changing circumstances.

Your opportunities

In this role, you will not only get the chance to work in a strategically important position within procurement, but you will also have a unique opportunity to put your mark on our sustainability journey towards reducing our carbon footprints. Given that this is an entry level positions 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.

Application and contact

If you want to know more about the job, please do not hesitate to contact Category Manager, Rune Wind Laursen at +45 30743738, or learn more about the VELUX Group at www.velux.com.

We are looking forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible and no later than June 30, 2024. We are reviewing candidates and calling for interviews on an ongoing basis, and we reserve the right to close the position before the application deadline if the right candidate is found.

Please write in your application or CV within which materials you have solid knowledge and experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer
VELUX Residential is fully committed to the concept and practice of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. To further our goal of equal employment opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, it is the policy of VELUX Residential to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. All employment decisions shall be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity and only job-related qualifications will be required.

Location: Bækgårdsvej 40 Skjern

Additional location:

• Ul. Sloneczna 29 Gniezno
• ul. Krakowiaków 34 Warszawa
• Industrivej 12 Østbirk