Principal Category Manager

Employer: Ferrosan Medical Devices

The Role & Department
Do you want to be responsible for developing our Sourcing of Plastic suppliers to new heights? Do you want to make a difference for patients undergoing surgery by securing the compliance of the medical devices used by healthcare professionals? 

Here you have the opportunity to get an exciting and challenging job, as Principal Category Manager, in a international company. As Ferrosan Medical Devices is growing, you will be able to shape the job in our Strategic Sourcing Department to a large extent. The position refers to the Senior Manager of Strategic Sourcing.

The department Strategic Sourcing is part of Supply Chain Management, which is a central area in Ferrosan Medical Devices. Strategic Sourcing consists of 6 experienced Category Managers covering direct spend, CMOs and Indirect spend including equipment and machinery. The team is responsible for all aspects of supplier management including supplier selection, negotiation, and collaboration as well as risk mitigation, spend/savings program, and category strategies. 

Responsibilities
You get a central position, with responsibility for the collaboration and development of the company's Plastic Suppliers. There will be a great deal of contact with the suppliers, who are primarily in Europe, as well as a broad contact surface across Ferrosan Medical Devices. Your main tasks will be:

• Establishment and maintenance of Category strategies.
• Daily handling and collaboration with our current Suppliers.
• Negotiations and conclusion of contracts. 
• Development of the supplier base.
• Optimizing the processes and structure around the Suppliers.
• Participate in various product development and optimization projects. 

The overall purpose of the position is to ensure robust cooperation and management of our Plastic suppliers, this to reduce total costs through close cooperation, taking quality, reliability and risk management into account.

To be successful, you must internally work closely together with e.g. Finance, the Development department, the Quality organization and your colleagues in Supply Chain Management and Operations.

Your profile
The ideal candidate for the job holds experience from a similar role managing and leading Categories from a highly regulated industry such as medical devices, pharma, biotech, life science or similar. As a person you have a pragmatic approach, and you find solutions to identified problems:

• Minimum B.Sc. – ideally a degree at M.Sc. level as an Engineer, Economist or within Supply Chain.
• Minimum +5 years of experience within purchasing and/or Supply Chain.
• You have experience with Category Management and supplier handling.
• Demonstrated track record in finding pragmatic solutions to complex or challenging problems.
• Highly experienced in stakeholder management.
• Your work style is involving and impactful.
• You think in holistic terms and with a business-oriented approach to the solutions.
• You have created visible results in your current or previous roles.
• You have experience with GMP.
• Possess strong oral/written communication skills in English.

We offer
We offer a truly purpose driven workplace with strong roots in values. What exactly this means is quickly visible to our new colleagues. We are driven by improving patient outcomes and we take our values to work every day – we care about each other, our environment and our customers and we win for patients with innovative high-quality solutions.  
 
We offer an inclusive workplace with the opportunity to have real impact and a development curve, that you can steepen in the pace, that is suitable to you. You will meet a DK rooted company growing in number of international colleagues and a way of working, where hybrid, digital, learning and innovation are key words. And we take pride in having fun😊.