Senior Procurement Partner for sustainable packaging

Are you passionate about sustainable packaging & innovation? Are you keen on strategic sourcing and commercially intrigued by optimization? Do you thrive in a company with a strong change agenda and where values of empowerment and open communication are lived every day? Join us in taking Procurement to the next level, working strategically with optimization, risk mitigation and value creation. 

We are looking for a Senior Procurement Partner to take on the strategic procurement responsibilities within the business-critical packaging categories. Given the nature of the packaging categories, it will be a key enabler category for Flügger to achieve its ambitious sustainability targets – in other words, this is a very high exposure category within Flügger.

Take part in the journey

Flügger is a proud producer and retailer of paint with a strong legacy, quality products, skilled employees, and loyal customers. We have an ambitious strategy ‘Flügger Organic – delivering sustainable value’, founded on sustainable production, products, and packaging.

A few specific examples on the Flügger Organic strategy:
Strategic Aspiration: Being the preferred choice of painters and quality-oriented consumers by offering sustainable and color-inspiring solutions:   
•    Flügger have ecolabels on +80% of our own produced paint products (+90% on Flügger branded products) and we won´t stop before we reach 100%!
•    Increased use of recycled plastic in our buckets.  
•    Focused efforts with Flügger’s suppliers, on sustainability topics such as recycled plastic innovation, take-back initiatives and circularity including reduce-reuse-recycle approach to reduce Co2 footprint and ensure other environmental benefits. 

As Senior Procurement Partner you will have responsibility of several large, strategic direct spend categories such as the categories of packaging (buckets, bags, labels etc.), and maybe other strategic categories that suit your capabilities. 

Your key responsibilities will be:
•    Drive and secure progress on sustainable packaging solutions, i.e. increased use of recycled plastic, innovative and future packaging requirements.  
•    Develop and implement supplier relations management with strategic focus on innovation, cost out & sustainability
•    Ensure resilient supply chains, with focus on security of supply and supplier quality
•    Market insights & supplier search and approval
•    Contracting and contract management 
•    Ensure competitive pricing and drive cost efficiency initiatives (Total Cost of Ownership approach)
•    Project and stakeholder management. 

You will join the Direct Procurement team and report to Senior Procurement Manager, Søren Vandsø Jacobsen and work closely with other colleagues in Procurement and stakeholders across the entire value chain including Product Management, Planning and directly with the production sites, which are an integral part of any packaging solutions.
Procurement in Flügger is anchored as a group function with direct reference to the CEO, working with strategic and operational procurement of both Direct spend, Indirect spend and Goods for Resale. 

Your profile

We expect you to have a strong business acumen and negotiation skills to secure sustainable cost optimization. We expect you to be result oriented with a strong drive. Additionally, we expect you to have an interest in packaging categories, raw materials, and technical flair, to work with internal stakeholders and suppliers on performance excellence.

Collaboration and communication skills are central. Additionally, we expect you to have:
•    Minimum of 5-10 years of experience with strategic procurement of direct spend, preferably from production companies and with packaging category experience. 
•    Strong project management skills and analytical skills
•    A Master’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering, or the like.

We offer

Besides a competitive compensation and benefit package we believe we have a lot to offer you in this role.
At Flügger Procurement you will join a great team of skilled and experienced colleagues, a professional and encouraging work environment, and a culture for knowledge sharing. You will join a highly engaged team with 4 team members in total, where we truly believe in a trust-based culture, supporting each other to succeed as we as a team deliver great outcomes for Flügger and our customers!  

Given the business-critical nature of this role you will have a 1 to 1 positive impact on Flügger’s performance, and your contribution will be very tangible compared to Procurement roles in other organizations of similar size.
The nature of this role will also give you great exposure to Executive Management and provide great opportunities to further develop your career and skillsets.

So come join an ambitious, growing, listed company with Scandinavian roots and an international outlook.