Category Manager - Indirect Procurement - HR & Marketing

at  Nilfisk

Come and join Nilfisk as a Global Indirect Category Manager and put your mark on our strategy!
We offer the opportunity to join Nilfisk as our new Global Indirect Category Manager - HR & Marketing in a growing team, where you will create, maintain and execute category strategies within the assigned spend. You create business cases, assess commercial models, manage stakeholders, run tenders, and negotiate contracts with a range of existing and potential new suppliers. You will focus on achieving best value for money, leverage the global scale and keep in mind local nuances.
Focusing mainly on the HR and Marketing Category, You will be a main driver of defining future supply concepts in our global organization, working across cultures, and influencing sourcing strategies in your categories. You will act as a trusted Procurement Advisor for stakeholders all over Nilfisk and liaise with a broad field of suppliers while understanding the trends, commercial drivers, and market dynamics.
The Team
You will be part of a growing team (currently 4 ppl, planned growth to 9 ppl by Q2 2024), based in Budapest and Copenhagen. You will be part of the Global Indirect Procurement team reporting to the Global Head of Indirect Procurement.
Why join us?
We offer a hybrid workplace model, where you have the flexibility to choose where you want to work (50-50% home vs. office). Location: at our IT Innovation and Business Services HUB in Budapest, Infopark (Budapest, 11th district)

Besides having a trust-based culture, and tons of opportunities to grow and contribute to Nilfisk’s success, we offer a competitive salary furthermore the following benefits:

• Monthly gross 46.000 HUF cafeteria (can be spent on meal vouchers, travel support, leisure contribution, health support, loan support)
• Free access to gym and swimming pool close to the office
• Free parking in the garage or outside parking area at the office
• Flexible working hours and Home Office opportunity
• Travel contribution for daily commute (home-workplace)
• Fruit days every week
• Psychological support (for both work and personal life-related matters)
• Employee discount on Nilfisk products
• Yearly onsite medical screening

What you will do

• Manage procurement projects (Scoping, RFx, Negotiating, Implementing)
• Develop category strategies and implement them
• Manage contracts, optimize compliance with SOW’s and other contractual terms and conditions
• Work closely with key business stakeholders to ensure alignment and buy-in for procurement projects
• Seek out additional opportunities for continuously improving the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) within the category by scoping and getting buy-in for specific improvement projects
• Conduct fact-based negotiations with suppliers to ensure Nilfisk achieves the best value for money
• Develop and manage supplier contracts and compliance
• Execute requests for proposals (RFP) and quotations (RFQ) with high professionalism – ensuring comparability, fact-based evaluations, and timely execution
• Drive supplier consolidations keeping in mind local nuances
• Assist in developing and maturing the Indirect Procurement function
• Identify opportunities in spend patterns and market developments

What you will bring
For this position, we are looking for candidates who have great experience within one or several of the above-mentioned categories. As a person, you like to establish great professional relationships with your stakeholders. As English is our corporate language, you speak and write English fluently.
You have 5-10 years of experience in an indirect procurement position – preferably from a global company, irrespective of sector, or perhaps management consulting.
Interested?
If this could be your next career challenge, please apply already today. If you have questions before that you are welcome to contact Viktoria Fülöp, Talent Acquisition Partner at
vfulop@nilfisk.com
.
What happens with your application?
We will look at your application and contact you for a phone interview if relevant. Hereafter, if there is a mutual match, we will invite you to an interview with the hiring manager and potentially a colleague.
The 2nd interview will be with an HR representative together with the manager where the focus is on feedback on a personality assessment, which we ask you to complete from home.
Let’s create a cleaner future together
Clean is changing. Today, cleaning is a key contributor to health and safety, and a new clean is emerging, driven by technology and innovation. At Nilfisk we are a driving force in this development, and we work as one team with one agenda, supporting each other across an exciting, dynamic organization. Being part of Nilfisk means having the freedom to speak your mind and do what you do best. You will thrive by having a hands-on approach and the drive to bring your great ideas to life. At Nilfisk you can lead, innovate and collaborate for a cleaner future. Are you ready to make a change?
We embrace diversity and equality with an environment of inclusion. We encourage everyone to apply for the position, regardless of origin, race, ethnicity, religion, physical or mental ability, gender, gender-identity or expression, sexual orientation, and age.

• Manage procurement projects (Scoping, RFx, Negotiating, Implementing)
• Develop category strategies and implement them
• Manage contracts, optimize compliance with SOW’s and other contractual terms and conditions
• Work closely with key business stakeholders to ensure alignment and buy-in for procurement projects
• Seek out additional opportunities for continuously improving the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) within the category by scoping and getting buy-in for specific improvement projects
• Conduct fact-based negotiations with suppliers to ensure Nilfisk achieves the best value for money
• Develop and manage supplier contracts and compliance
• Execute requests for proposals (RFP) and quotations (RFQ) with high professionalism – ensuring comparability, fact-based evaluations, and timely execution
• Drive supplier consolidations keeping in mind local nuances
• Assist in developing and maturing the Indirect Procurement function
• Identify opportunities in spend patterns and market development