Strategic Buyer - Aluminum and Metal Parts

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.

Strategic Buyer –Aluminum and Metal Parts

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?

Do you have solid experience in strategic purchasing and project management, and do you have the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships?

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 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 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 Senior Category Manager. You will join a global procurement team dedicated and skilled in handling primarily tactical and operational purchasing tasks. Central Hub for our Strategic Buyer team is Warsaw with alternative production and office sites in Poland (Warszawa), Denmark (Østbirk or Skjern)

Your challenges

As a Strategic Buyer in our Aluminum & Metal Parts 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:

• Take responsibility for independent and cross-functional strategic projects 

• Be responsible for own portfolio of projects for cost reduction

• Be vendor responsible and negotiate and make commercial agreements

• Participate in the development of the overall purchasing strategy with a main focus on the execution 

• Execute RFI/RFQ processes and ensure correct purchasing master data in SAP

• Ensure continuous communication with internal stakeholders regarding valid supplier contracts, prices, and general optimization which could include possible new suppliers 

• Work with Purchasing KPIs as a goal for your results

• Build and maintain good relations with suppliers as well as internal stakeholders

• Admin and processing tools - ca. 50% of work time

You should expect 30-45 traveling days per year.

Your qualifications

Your educational background may be technically supplemented with a commercial education like an engineer or MSc in Economics & Business Administration. You have 2-3 years of professional experience in strategic purchasing and in conducting projects – may be from a similar role as Strategic buyer or perhaps as Strategic Purchaser or Category Manager. Experience within metal parts, steel or aluminum 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 strong 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