Strategy Program Manager – Procurement Excellence

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.

Are you experienced in Program management, and can you steer complex, strategically important Procurement strategy programs? Do you excel in project and stakeholder management, and are you a proficient communicator skilled in guiding and motivating a large, diverse team and getting your stakeholders onboard?

VELUX has a proven track-record of delivering solid results throughout our more than 80-year history. However, we have set a bold ambition for ourselves to grow even more with a steep growth curve towards 2030 while setting one of the most radical sustainability visions Globally. As a result of a new and recently launched procurement strategy, we are looking at a large portfolio of strategic procurement excellence projects spanning from procurement cost & efficiency optimization, to establishment of a sustainable supply chain, to optimizing technical specifications of products, and to ensure successful deployment and progression of the project portfolio. Therefore, we are now looking for a proficient and structured Program Manager.

Global Procurement has set a new 4-year strategy with ambitious goals within cost efficiency, sustainability and ESG, operational excellence, supply chain robustness and people & culture. The deployment of the strategy requires broad engagement of functions outside of procurement, clear prioritization and firm project management to secure timely and successful execution of the strategy.

Your challenges

In this newly established role as Program Manager, you will join a skilled team of 11 colleagues in our Procurement Excellence & PMO function, and you will report directly to the Director of Procurement Excellence & PMO. You will program manage a set of projects (16 where some of the complex ones are having dedicated program managers), facilitate scoping and planning for new projects added to the portfolio, ensure regular reviews, flag issues or interdependencies and facilitate their resolution, setting up needed governance model with the management team but also with the project managers on the strategic projects. Moreover, you will have a central part in driving the review of the procurement strategy on a yearly basis and driving procurement strategy overall. Lastly, you will be setting up the program management practice and strategy PMO practice in procurement.

More specifically, you will:

• Facilitate yearly strategy review, and every 4th year a major strategy review
• Define process and governance for strategy execution follow-up, calibration, review and communication.
• Enhance existing practices within project management and change management in order to strengthen strategy execution.
• Support project managers on the individual strategic initiatives in scoping and planning the projects
• Provide communication to procurement team in terms of progress and impacts of the strategy
• Prepare communication for top management outside of procurement conveying main updates within strategy deployment
• Prepare needed material and ensure overall strategy progress update and calibration discussions towards the procurement management team and other management forums that may be relevant (i.e. business performance reviews with management from other functions)

The role is based at our Head office in Hørsholm or alternatively at our offices in Østbirk, depending on where you reside. VELUX is offering hybrid working setup, with the flexibility to work up to 4 days over 2 weeks remotely.

Your qualifications

We will come to know you as a structured Program Manager and an exceptionally proficient communicator with natural skills of building working relationships which enables you to work across the organization and operate in a matrix-like organization. Through your adjustable approach and significant presentation and communication skills, you confidently guide stakeholders of all levels, from Senior Directors to project members, ensuring their collaboration by knowing the appropriate moments for insistence and composure. Being used to having multiple contact points internally and externally and with your assertive and diplomatic personality, you excel at teamwork and managing your stakeholders – even in situations with conflicts and opposing interests.

Moreover, you:

• Bring several years of experience in Program management and procurement
• Have a well-developed program and project management toolbox and are able to coordinate individual program tracks
• Hold a Master’s degree in a relevant field
• Speak and write English at a professional level
• Might have experience working with strategy in a PMO office, strategy office or consulting

Your Opportunities

Headquartered in Hørsholm north of Copenhagen, The VELUX Group is the world leader in roof windows and skylights. We are family and foundation owned with a long history of great results.

The VELUX Group proposes an array of motivating activities, vast possibilities for influencing your career path, and the experience of working with expert and fervent colleagues who esteem commitment and mutual respect.

Our company provides engaging work experiences while promoting a harmonious work-life balance that respects your personal time and relationships. We believe in empowering people, and we support this by providing a high degree of freedom and investing in people who have the will and the ability to make a difference.

Application and contact

Read more about the VELUX Group at www.velux.com, where you can also learn more about working at our company and what to expect in our recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible!

We will review candidates and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.

All enquiries will be treated confidentially.

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: Ådalsvej 99 Hørsholm

Additional location:

• Industrivej 19B Østbirk