Global Category Sourcing Manager

Are you ready to make a significant impact in the renewable energy sector?
Baettr is a dynamic and growing company dedicated to creating sustainable products and processes. We are on an ambitious journey, and we want you to be a part of it!

“Our team’s ability to contribute through a professional and forward-thinking approach is key to succeed with the exiting growth path laying ahead of our company,” states VP Global Sourcing, Joen Østergaard and continues: “For the right candidate it is an eminent chance to make your mark on the sourcing function towards a more sustainable future.”

Your key task main responsibilities
As Category Sourcing Manager, you will be responsible for driving strategic procurement activities within own spend areas, to ensure a competitive and sustainable supplier base is in place. Primarily for our locations in Europe, but you will also find yourself supporting colleagues at Baettr’s sites in China and India.

• Ensure efficient supplier management for the following spend categories (Patterns and sand cores, Flasks & welded parts, Consumables, Utilities & Professional Services)
• Implement category strategies in alignment with factories and other key stakeholders.
• Negotiate and implement agreements to support Baettr strategy and KPI’s.
• Prepare and drive RFQs and CAPEX projects.
• Identify cost out projects.
• Lead Cross Functional Teams within own categories.
• Build up spend- and data analysis to support the sourcing activities across the value chain.
• Collect and maintain market intelligence as support to stakeholders incl. Key Account team.

Professional and personal qualifications

• You have 3+ years or more from similar sourcing positions.
• You could have a degree in mechanical engineering or business administration or similar.
• You are a skilled trained negotiator.
• You have a strong analytical and commercial mindset.
• You have experience from global organizations.
• You hold strong stakeholder management skills.
• You have excellent English & German language skills.

It is important that you hold good interpersonal skills with a positive mindset, whereas collaboration both locally and globally is key to have success.

You will have the possibility to work either out of Lem, Denmark or Stade and Südbrookmerland, Germany however there will also be travel days to our different location around the world, mainly in Sweden and Denmark.

Baettr has an informal culture where innovative ideas and constructive feedback are always welcomed
We offer a job in a dynamic, future-oriented, and international organization where we live our values: Be Accountable, Imagine Better and Be Respectful. Therefore, it is important that you can identify with our values and help us live these in everyday life. We emphasize a good and comfortable work environment where there is room and space for our differences and where we take care of the individual. We emphasize innovation and promote development according to our vision: Engineering the Foundation for Future Generations.

Place of work:
Smed Hansens Vej 27
6940 Lem St
Or
Jahnstrasse 12b
21680 Stade
Or
Gewerbestraße 56
26624 Südbrookmerland

Application deadline:
As soon as possible

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