Senior Sourcing Manager- Temporary

Ørsted A/S; Gentofte Kommune; On-site; DKK 850,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ørsted A/S is seeking an experienced procurement professional to manage end-to-end sourcing for offshore windfarm services. You will coordinate with category managers and stakeholders to develop sourcing strategies, qualify suppliers, and hand over contracts ready for execution in a fast-paced, international environment.

You will drive tenders in line with EU tender rules, negotiate terms, and ensure compliant, timely contracts while maintaining a strong focus on safety and value.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing sourcing processes from strategy to contract.
• Experience running tenders in accordance with EU tender rules is a plus.
• Strong negotiation skills and ownership of the negotiation process.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end sourcing and tendering activities for offshore O&M services.
• Coordinate with category managers and stakeholders to ensure compliant contracting.

Skills

Sourcing processes

EU tender law

Negotiation

English communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Attention to detail

Job description

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for sourcing the right suppliers to secure the operation and fulfil the servicing needs of our offshore windfarms. You’ll be working with our procurement process and governance from developing the sourcing strategies to contract handover. In this role, you'll be coordinating with our category managers, business stakeholders and colleagues in supporting functions. You can look forward to a dynamic, fast-paced, and international environment, where you’ll have the opportunity to develop your career while making your mark on the transition to renewable energy.

Welcome to Offshore Generation Procurement

You’ll be part of the Offshore Services Procurement team where you, together with your colleagues, will support our offshore windfarms to produce power, by ensuring contracting of timely, compliant and competitive O&M services capacity. You’ll be working in a global team of highly skilled procurement professionals. An important aspect of your role is to proactively consolidate input from internal stakeholders to negotiate and sign fit to scope contracts ready for the end users’ purposes. In this role you’ll be working closely with colleagues organized in projects at our operational hubs.

As a team, we ‘re driven by an open working environment where everyone is encouraged to speak up, seek, and provide feedback. We actively take initiative, work on improvements, and seek learning opportunities.

You’ll play an important role in:

• being responsible for the end to end tendering process, qualifying suppliers, clarifying and evaluating bids, preparing and negotiating terms and conditions, and recommending and awarding suppliers
• ensuring compliance with internal and external tendering rules, policies, and governance by actively engaging and seeking input from key support functions
• preparing and presenting clear and thought-through gate documents to aim management and budget owners’ decision on recommended strategies
• leading communication with suppliers throughout the sourcing activities
• contributing to the quality assurance processes by reviewing peers’ documentation, sharing tendering and contract lessons learned, and providing feedback to category strategies
• handing over complete signed contract package with complete metadata ready for execution .

To succeed in the role, you:

• have significant experience with managing sourcing processes from drafting of sourcing strategies to contract signing. Experience running tenders according to EU-tender law is a plus
• have a passion for negotiating and possess considerable experience taking responsibility for planning and executing negotiation process
• possess good verbal and written English communication skills enabling you to effectively collaborate with the team and communicate professionally with key stakeholders
• have the bandwidth to spot commercial opportunities focusing on bottom-line impact and personnel safety, while achieving the right technical, operational contract solution
• act with high integrity, take ownership, handles pressure well, proactively asks questions, and seeks input beyond your network to drive results
• are organized, well-structured, and possess good attention to detail, especially when preparing documentation.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [e-mail].

Please note that this is a fixed-term position with a duration time of months.