Strategic Buyer

BAADER; Denmark; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High-impact strategic role

Shape supplier base from early design

Job summary

BAADER seeks a Strategic Buyer based in Denmark to shape sourcing strategies across Denmark, the Netherlands, with future expansion to Malaysia and the USA. You will balance long-term, risk-mitigating sourcing with sales-driven opportunities, ensuring strong supplier performance and standardization across functions.

You will join a growing international procurement team and contribute to the professionalization of the function while collaborating with engineering and operations to drive value

Qualifications

• Strong negotiation and influencing skills in international environments.
• Strong analytical capabilities with an assertive mindset.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work with technical products and engineering stakeholders.
• Strong project management skills and experience with change management.
• Strong language acumen in Danish and English.

Responsibilities

• Manage global supplier accounts focusing on QLTCS (Quality, Logistics, Technology, Cost, Sustainability).
• Monitor and evaluate supplier performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Drive supplier development initiatives and maintain strong contractual frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and other functions to align sourcing decisions.
• Lead supplier selection qualification and contracting processes for new products.

Job description

About The Role

The Strategic Buyer will play a key role in shaping and executing sourcing strategies across multiple international entities. Based in Trige, Denmark, our new colleague will manage selected categories for BAADER Food Systems entities in Denmark and the Netherlands, with future expansion to Malaysia and the USA.

This is a strategic, value-driven and proactive role, focused on supplier performance, category development, cost avoidance and supply chain optimization.

At the same time, the Strategic Buyer will join a procurement function that is in the process of increasing its professional maturity. While not all structures, systems and policies are fully established yet, this creates a unique opportunity to actively participate in developing and strengthening the procurement function. The Strategic Buyer will become part of a small but growing international team of Strategic Buyers, professionalizing the global procurement organization.

We are looking for a new colleague who is energized by collaborating, challenging and influencing stakeholders across functions and suppliers in a cross-functional and multi-national working environment. We are looking for a pragmatic colleague keeping the fact-based and strategic vision while driving standardization and improvements in your direct working scope.

There is no operational purchasing foreseen in the role.

Your Future Tasks Will Include

The challenge is to deliver results in today’s environment while building the foundations for tomorrow. The Strategic Buyer will bring structure, discipline, transparency and a holistic perspective into supplier and product selection. The Strategic Buyer will operate at the intersection of strategy, product development and operations. He/she will need to balance structured, long-term and risk-mitigating sourcing strategies with the sometimes-opportunistic nature of sales-driven projects.

Key Responsibilities

Supplier Account Management

• The performance of his/her global supplier accounts, in terms of QLTCS (Quality, Logistics, Technology, Cost, Sustainability)


• Active monitoring and evaluation of supplier performance


• Identification of improvement opportunities and driving supplier development initiatives

Category Management

Responsibilities

• Identify and realize opportunities for cost avoidance, value creation, innovation, standardization, risk mitigation and supply chain resilience


• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across engineering, operations and other business functions to ensure alignment on sourcing decisions


• Develop and manage a global supply base of capable partners and ensure holistic system and supplier selection


• Ensure strong contractual frameworks with clear responsibilities and performance expectations regarding these aspects

New Product Development (NPD)

• Ensure the use of preferred suppliers and standard components


• Challenge engineering and safeguard a holistic approach to product and supplier selection


• Drive, enforce and lead a structured supplier selection qualification and contracting process

Your Qualifications, Experience And Personal Skills

Core Competencies

• Strong negotiation and influencing skills in international environments


• Strong analytical capabilities with an assertive mindset


• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills


• Ability to work with technical products and engineering stakeholders
  
• Strong project management skills and experience with change management


• Strong language acumen in Danish and English

Background

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field


• Profound, proven experience and training in specific in negotiating, category management, strategic procurement and contract management Background in technical or manufacturing industries


• Strong track record in supplier negotiations and contract management


• Experience managing suppliers across QLTCS dimensions


• Experience in new product development environments


• Strong ownership of supplier performance and sourcing decisions

We Offer

• A high-impact strategic role with global responsibility


• Opportunity to shape supplier base and performance from early design stages


• A professionalizing procurement function where you can actively contribute to the development of structure and professional standards and demonstrate the added value


• International collaboration with procurement colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers across multiple regions


• Standardized modular product design and supply in an international and continuously evolving business environment

At arbejde hos BAADER

At arbejde hos BAADER handler om mange ting - det handler om vores 100 år gamle arv, en pioner- og familieånd samt om døren til fremtiden.

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