Adress Nobia Group continues to grow, and we are in the most ambitious period in the company's history in terms of implementing a new business strategy. Weare Europe's leadingkitchenspecialistswith16 brands, includingMarbodal, HTH, Magnet and Sigdal.
About the Role
Embark on an exciting journey with Nobia in the Nordics, where you have the incredible opportunity to shape the future of logistics! We're actively searching for a dynamic individual to join our team as a Purchasing Manager, playing a pivotal role in advancing our purchasing and inventory management processes.
In this role, you will be at the forefront of achieving operational excellence, ensuring the seamless purchasing and inventory management of materials across the Nordics in alignment with our defined supplier agreements. Beyond routine tasks, your role encompasses a strategic focus on total cost and service from a regional perspective.
What makes this opportunity truly unique is the chance to step into a role during a crucial phase of organizational growth and process refinement, offering you a one-of-a-kind opportunity to carve your own professional path.
Your key responsibilities are:
Taking ownership of the purchasing process to establish a foundation for excellence, leading and owning inventory management for purchased materials, managing a dedicated team across our Nordic sites. You will contribute to the development of purchasing strategies supporting Nobia's overarching goals. You own the documentation process for clarity and efficiency and cultivating robust relationships with purchasing stakeholders. You drive ownership of purchasing-related KPIs, and you are collaborating with strategic sourcing to optimize supplier performance and agreement requirements.
Who are you?
To thrive in this role, we envision that you possess a university degree in logistics, complemented by extensive managerial experience in logistics within a production environment or a proven track record in a similar role. Your knowledge should span both operational and system support realms, with a holistic understanding of the complete supply chain and the ability to navigate its complexities. A team-first mindset with leadership experience and proficiency in English, both spoken and written, is crucial.
Additional competences we value include the ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries and levels, identify and implement improvements within purchasing and inventory management, analytical thinking from a holistic perspective, stakeholder management using influential techniques, financial acumen, proficiency in process mapping, and SAP experience is considered advantageous.
The role is preferably based in Jönköping, with occasional travel a couple of times per year. It's also possible to work from one of the other Nordic countries.
Why work at Nobia?
At Nobia, we design kitchens for life. To us, that means developing well-designed, beautiful, and emotionally conceptualized kitchens that speak to the hearts and minds of our customers. Kitchens that enable a sustainable lifestyle and reduced climate impact. We are fifteen strong local brands that benefit from advantages of working together. With operations that incorporate the entire value chain from design to installation, we are driven by a shared ambition to lead the way in design and sustainability in our industry. Together, we form Europe's leading kitchen specialist.
At Nobia we have a company culture where we support, trust and respect each other and where we enable people to reach their full potential and achieve personal and professional growth. We believe in cross-functional collaboration and sharing best practices across the group.
About your application
To help us place the right people in the right role, we believe in science-based and fair assessment methods.We follow a competence-based, structured interview process where your skills, experience, and attributes relevant to the role and Nobia will be assessed. As part of our recruitment process,pre-employment testingis used to help us increase our hiring success by identifying the candidates that are most likely to thrive and be successful in the role.We acknowledge that there are two parties making a decision in this process and welcome you to ask any questions you may have at any stage of the process.
We kindly ask you to submit your application as soon as possible but no later than 2024-03-18.
If you have any questions regarding the position or the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Specialist, Emma Elofsgård emma.elofsgard@nobia.com
Seize the opportunity to be a driving force in the future of Nobia's logistics - apply now and shape your own success story!
We are looking for skilled employees who can add value to our business. We work actively to ensure that our employees can develop at our workplaces, irrespective of their sex, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
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Department Sourcing & Purchasing Locations Nobia Factory, Jönköping, Nobia, • lgod Danmark, Nobia Factory, Nastola, Nobia Factory, Eggedal Remote status Hybrid Remote Brand Nobia
