Global Strategic Purchaser

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Who you are:

Product Group Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers (GPHE) has global responsibility for manufacturing and supplying Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers. We have approximately 1.100 employees working across the globe supporting our customers’ requirements. Our products are sold across all our divisions, Energy, Food & Water, and Marine. Each of these divisions and associated application areas in the market drive unique requirements which we fulfill from eight factories and three assembly units located in Sweden, Russia, India, China, Japan, Korea, USA, Brazil, Turkey, Singapore, and Australia.

As part of our GPHE Global Sourcing team, you will play a vital role to secure the competitiveness and time to market of our products. As Global Strategic Purchaser you work with our global and complex supply chain in close collaboration with our 8 manufacturing sites globally and cross functionally throughout the Product Group (PG).

You have a passion for Sourcing and a competitive-oriented attitude with confidence and willingness to make things happen. You dare to challenge status quo in your drive for change. Your success is based on a structured way of working in combination with an ability to communicate and engage others.

As we work in a matrix organization it is vital that you’re a good networker and feel at ease with coaching and motivating not just your own team but also other functional teams to spread best practice and improvements.

About the job:

• Manage and drive purchasing projects

• Supply chain ownership for Product Group specific components and their competitiveness

• Manage commercial and supplier development activities

• Drive continuous site performance and improvement of quality, delivery, and cost

• Support NPD / EPD projects

• Support complex sourcing claims within the PG.

You will be part of a team of Global Strategic Purchaser for GPHE. We are a global team and some travelling is expected. The position reports to the Product Group Sourcing Manager and will be based in Jiangyin.

What you know

We believe you have several years’ working experience from sourcing or technical sales. We are looking for someone who is skilled in supplier development, management, and negotiations. In addition, a project industry background, i.e., experience in project management, is an advantage. You have a higher academic degree in Mechanical/ Process/ Industrial Engineer or similar and are fluent in written and spoken English.