VIKING is looking for a Global Sourcing Executive

at  VIKING LifeSaving Equipment AS

JOIN VIKING - AND HELP BUILD A SAFER WORLD

Are you looking for a career in the field of sourcing? Do you want to work in an global company with a clear purpose of saving lives and having ambitious goals for the foreseeable future?
If you can say YES to the above then it might be you we are looking for as our Global Sourcing Executive.
At VIKING, we live by saving lives. We are proud to be a world leading supplier of safety products, solutions, and services to the global maritime industry. Our equipment contribute to safety on everything from large cruise- and container ships to offshore platforms, ferries, fishing vessels, and superyachts.
Safety is the core in everything we do and our mission to protect and save human lives.
The company’s main office in Norway is based in Arendal and we have branch offices in Bergen, Oslo, Haugesund and Ålesund. VIKING Norway specializes in advanced Lifeboats, Davits and Marine Evacuation System (MES) systems for offshore platforms and other applications. We are approx. 290 employees in Norway.

In this role, you will work both independently and in cooperation with others. The following tasks and projects can be expected:

• Independent sourcing responsibility for selected spend categories and suppliers both local and global (negotiations, contract management, follow up suppliers)
• Sourcing of new suppliers and products, according to VIKING’s requirements to both quality, Code of Conduct and Terms and Conditions
• Cost Saving initiatives and reporting both locally and globally
• Day to day work e.g. updating master data
• Prices, lead times and Terms and Conditions, product information from suppliers and coordinate this internally
• Participate in Global projects and follow up sourcing tasks in the projects
• NCR processing
• Reports and analysis of spend data