Senior NPD Sourcing Lead – Global Procurement

Ambu A/S; Ballerup Kommune; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambu A/S in Denmark seeks a Senior Project Sourcing Manager to lead procurement in a key NPD initiative, ensuring right materials, technologies and suppliers for innovation, quality, and cost outcomes. You will work with R&D, Quality and Finance as procurement’s commercial lead across the product lifecycle.

Based at Ambu’s HQ in Ballerup, you will collaborate with category managers to implement strategy and drive end-to-end sourcing activities from concept through ramp‑up, while ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, or similar.
• 5–7 years of procurement experience with exposure to project sourcing and NPD.
• Experience in cross-functional project teams, preferably with R&D and product development.
• Strong supplier selection, cost modeling, negotiations and contract execution.
• Experience running RFI/RFQ/RFP processes and supplier comparisons.
• Analytical skills to translate complexity into recommendations.
• Excellent project management and stakeholder engagement.
• Proactive, structured, ownership-driven mindset with business focus.
• Ability to operate in dynamic global environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Procurement activities in a key strategic NPD initiative, from early concept through ramp‑up and handover to operations.
• Drive supplier and material selection, make/buy decisions, and sourcing strategies aligned with project milestones and governance.
• Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP activities for project‑specific sourcing and negotiate commercial, contractual, and supply agreements.
• Enable early supplier involvement (ESI) to support design‑to‑cost, design‑for‑manufacturability, and innovation access.
• Own and validate procurement inputs to business cases, including cost drivers, CAPEX, lead time, and lifecycle considerations, while challenging assumptions to secure competitive solutions
• Proactively identify and mitigate supply, capacity, and technology risks, ensuring compliance with quality, regulatory, and sustainability requirements.
• Contribute to selected category initiatives by supporting supplier strategy execution, consolidation, and structured handover from project to category sourcing.

Skills

Procurement strategy

RFI/RFQ/RFP processes

Cross-functional collaboration

Supplier negotiation

Cost modeling

Project management

Education

Engineering/SC/Business degree

Tools

ERP systems

Costing tools

Job description

Ambu A/S in Denmark seeks a Senior Project Sourcing Manager to lead procurement in a key NPD initiative, ensuring right materials, technologies and suppliers for innovation, quality, and cost outcomes. You will work with R&D, Quality and Finance as procurement’s commercial lead across the product lifecycle.

Based at Ambu’s HQ in Ballerup, you will collaborate with category managers to implement strategy and drive end-to-end sourcing activities from concept through ramp‑up, while ensuring