Senior Strategic Procurement Specialist, Food and Ingredients

Job title: Senior Strategic Procurement Specialist, Food and Ingredients

Company: Danish Crown


Job description: 10/06/2025Group Procurement & LogisticsDNK-Randers, Danish Crown VejSenior Strategic Procurement Specialist, Food and IngredientsYou already have a couple of years experience within strategic procurement, and if you also have experience within the material types; food & ingredients it is an even bigger advantage for you. We need your drive to set the direction!Danish Crown Group Procurement are instrumental in driving supply chain optimization, and we want to develop our relationships towards key suppliers through our SRM-program (Supply Relational Management).We are looking for a skilled new colleague with experience in using a solid strategic procurement toolbox, a colleague who can take lead in further supply chain optimization as well as build strong relationships with key suppliers and facilitate an even stronger and more successful cooperations.Success starts with a teamYou will become part of Group Procurement, where we you’ll meet highly committed and professional colleagues. 30 of us are placed in HQ Randers and 10 in Krakow, and you will get a job where personal and professional development is paramount in an exciting and changeable international company. So if your ambition is to leapfrog your strategic procurement development, then this is the position you want to go for you – we fill this role in Randers.You take ownership of your own categoryYou will work in a team of great colleagues who all are responsible for sourcing various sub-categories within our Direct Materials category. Direct Materials at Danish Crown are i.e. food, ingredients and packaging. In other words, everything that are part of the Danish Crown products you buy in your supermarket. This includes i.e., spices, spice mixes, starches, proteins, additives and other food-related ingredients. With steady hands you build and develop the sub-categories within your area of responsibility, and run various efficiency and optimization projects, combined with managing suppliers and agreements.You have very strong analytical skills which is the backbone in establishing your category strategies and identify opportunity for supply chain optimizations within your area of responsibility.Your primary tasks will be:

• Develop and execute your category strategy
• Strategic procurement program execution
• Build and maintain strong SRM programs with key suppliers
• Develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners and suppliers through effective relationship management
• Develop and strengthen ESG development with main suppliers.

You will work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, meaning you are communicating clearly and engaging. The category responsibility covers our business units primarily located in Denmark, UK, Germany, Sweden, and Poland.We expect that you:

• Have strong skills and proven track record delivering solid results within Category Management, Supplier Relationship Management and Contract Management
• Have experience in complex data management and has solid analytical skills
• Have a solid business understanding and a strategic mindset
• Enjoy working with procurement models and are familiar with Power BI, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Communicate effortlessly in English; both oral and written
• Experience in sourcing food ingredients will be an advantage for you and for us.

Ideally you have a commercial education, a MSc Merc, Trade diploma or other relevant training, and minimum 2-3 years of experience as a strategic procurement specialist, supply chain consultant, Supply Chain Consultant or similar positions where you can display solid results within procurement, category management and supplier relationship management.Appetite for more?We are writing the next chapter for food and packaging procurement and inviting you to join us. Please do not hesitate to contact Niels Hedegaard, Senior Director Procurement Direct Materials on +45 2030 8788 to learn more about the positions. We expect a fast process and have reserved June 26th and 27th for the second round of interview.We review candidates continuously, so send your CV and a few words about your motivation as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to stop the search once we have found the right candidates.We look forward to hearing from you!

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Location: Randers, Midtjylland

Job date: Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:48:28 GMT

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