Are you motivated by creating performance through business insights and stakeholder management and turning results into valuable category strategies and cost down initiatives?

Are you interested in joining a recently formed regional organization team in Morangis, (South of Paris) covering sales and marketing activities in France, Italy, Iberia, Netherlands and Belgium?

Are you intrigued by the opportunity to help establish an operating model ensuring standardization, compliance and professionalization of Indirect Procurement activities?

Then we might be looking for you! Join us in an exciting and challenging role as Indirect Procurement Strategic Buyer in the Global Procurement organisation - in a setting where knowledge is shared, and tasks are given to motivated individuals.

The tasks that await you

The VELUX Group is a global company with manufacturing and sales operations in more than 40 countries. This opportunity as Strategic Buyer is based in the local organization of Morangis (South of Paris), where you will join a regional team of colleagues covering VELUX sales and marketing activities across the region.

Taking up this position, you will become commercially responsible for indirect spend, with a focus on consolidation of spend, standardization of processes and professionalization of the overall supplier base, including opportunity analytics, contract management, as well as negotiation of commercial agreements on behalf of local organisation. You will act to understand the local business needs and requirements and ensure involvement and link to Global Indirect Procurement for sourcing alignment with both internal, local stakeholders, as well as the Global Procurement organization. Anchored within the Global Procurement Indirect Organisation, you will gain the advantages of a Global Procurement strategy, a high professional bar, shared data systems and performance metrics.

You will primarily be overseeing the following processes and tasks:

• Managing procurement KPI’s and ensuring compliance with procurement policies, strategies, and procedures.

• Support our carbon reduction agenda and overall sustainability strategy

• Participating in category strategy development and executing category strategies locally.

• Implementing and support change management locally.

• Handling RFI/RFQ processes aligned with local and global purchase policies.

• Aligning master data requirements with or Centralized Business Service function.

• Ensuring effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders.

Your opportunities

As the VELUX Group is growing and going places, so will you. We invite you to grow in our supportive learning culture, where our objectives will become your challenges.

Working across business entities and functions, you will get a chance to develop your analytical skills and form collaborative relationships with colleagues and stakeholders from various parts of the business. As you build strong business relationships and business acumen, you will become a key contributor in supporting our growth strategy.

We offer

• Permanent contract

• A creative and dynamic work environment with opportunities for development and advancement

• An iconic, green campus that has been fully renovated

• A work culture integrated with our Scandinavian origins and promoting work/life balance

• Join a company certified as a “Great Place to Work”

• IT equipment

• Other benefits:

  • Health insurance, supplementary pension

  • Company restaurant, free coffee and fruit

  • Sustainable mobility allowance

• Remote work policy allowing you to work up to 2 days per week from home

• Works council (activities and advantageous offers)

Your qualifications

Your analytical mindset, your ability to build relationships with various stakeholders across the organisation and your focus on delivering high quality will allow you to thrive in this role. More exactly, we are looking for the following:

Professional skills 

• Adequate technical and/or commercial background

• Experienced negotiator with prior experience with Indirect procurement activities

• English proficiency required both written and spoken.

Personal skills

• You possess notable skills in analytical problem-solving.

• You have an ability to manage conflicting priorities and agendas.

• You are motivated and have a solution-oriented mindset.

• You have effective communication and collaboration skills.