Are you passionate about motivating an international category team and driving our category strategies to the next level? And are you ready to deliver world class category strategies driving cost, quality and on time delivery? Can you influence and involve cross-functional stakeholders to drive results for Vestas? Then we would like to meet you!
The Cranes & Subcontracting department deals with industrial service providers who support Vestas with qualified equipment and manpower on wind farm sites. We contract all companies that execute works on our turbines, both during construction and afterwards in the service phase. We support operations with the best landed total cost, push for technological game changing initiatives and maintain organizational flexibility through smart outsourcing.
Your main responsibility will be to manage a wide range of Cranes & Subcontracting suppliers in EMEA and with a yearly spend of 50+ million Euro. More specifically your responsibilities will cover:
- Secure that cost reduction targets are achieved through cost out projects and ongoing price negotiations for cross regional procurement initiatives. This includes scoping, negotiating and implementing standard contracts and prices to enable local ordering, and support with ad-hoc negotiation support for urgent activities.
- Drafting and execution of tenders & supplier negotiations.
- Roll out Service Category Management Team for Cranes & Subcontracting.
- Establish and develop partnerships with selected suppliers to gain competitive advantages.
- Responsible for delivering required input into Vestas functional and regional responsible.
- Build supply market intelligence and ensure that supply base data is available to support business decisions.
- Secure that all cost out opportunities are identified, and that relevant risk assessments are completed and acted upon to reduce risk.
- Deploy multiple sourcing on all critical services.
- Academic degree in engineering or business studies.
- 2 years' work experience in either sourcing or a sector related to industrial service providers, such as construction, assembly, shipping etc.
- Negotiation experience strong plus.
- Good interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
- Solution oriented, problem solver.
- Cross cultural skills (will work across EMEA).
- Ability to prioritize under pressure.
- Good grasp of business processes.
- Fluent English & German spoken and written.
- Advanced MS Excel.
Vestas Global Procurement offers a place in a multicultural and global team. Vestas is a very agile company in a young industry, and you will have a strong impact on the bottom line right away. You will be able to directly influence and improve processes and can make a difference. There is always potential for growth, locally and internationally.
Vestas is the energy industry's global partner on wind power solutions. We design, manufacture, install and service wind turbines across the globe, and with more than 83 GW of wind turbines in 75 countries, we have installed more wind power than anyone else.
Through our industry-leading smart data capabilities and unparalleled 73 GW of wind turbines under service, we use data to interpret, forecast and exploit wind resources and deliver best-in-class wind power solutions.
Together with our customers, Vestas' more than 22,000 employees are bringing the world sustainable energy solutions to power a bright future.
We invite you to learn more about Vestas by visiting our website at www.vestas.com and following us on our social medial channels.