Strategic Buyer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Global exposure

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

BAADER in Trige, Denmark, seeks a Strategic Buyer to shape and execute sourcing strategies across multiple international entities. You will manage selected categories for Denmark and the Netherlands, with future expansion, balancing long-term sourcing with project opportunities.

You will join a growing international team and contribute to professionalizing procurement, focusing on supplier performance, cost avoidance, and value creation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (Supply Chain, Engineering, or Business).
• Proven experience in negotiating, category management, strategic procurement and contract management.
• Experience managing suppliers across QLTCS dimensions and in new product development environments.

Responsibilities

• Own global supplier accounts and monitor performance across QLTCS.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies to support business objectives.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and other functions to align sourcing decisions.
• Contribute to NPD projects and enforce structured supplier selection and contracting.

Skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

English proficiency

Danish language

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management or related

Job description

Strategic Buyer

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

The Strategic Buyer will have ownership in several procurement categories and will be responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that support the organization's business objectives. This requires the Strategic Buyer to:

• 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)

The Strategic Buyer will participate in and actively contribute to NPD-projects, representing the strategic procurement interests and conditions.

• 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

Working at BAADER

Working at BAADER is about many things – it’s about our 100-year-old heritage, a pioneering and family spirit and pathing to the future.

People’s needs, ideas, and capabilities are essential at BAADER. Our employees, our customers and their customers form the path toward our success. The interaction between diverse groups of people is an asset and a source of inspiration. We promote the professional development of everyone at BAADER. A key component to our success is the knowledge and experience shared across generations and countries.

At BAADER, we offer ranging working opportunities from designing and producing specialty machinery and solutions for world leading food processing of fish, poultry to Sales, Projects, Installations, Supporting Office functions, Service and After Sales.

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