Category Manager, Indirect Spend, Esbjerg, Denmark

1,2Are you a proactive and result-driven Category Manager ready to start a new chapter? Do you want to write history and take part in the green energy transition? Here is a unique opportunity for you!

Your position 

As Category Manager, Indirect Spend at Semco Maritime's head quarter in Esbjerg, you will lead category strategies for facility management, professional services, travel, furniture & decorations, office supplies, fleet & transportation, and support to group support functions. Your role involves negotiating with suppliers, driving cost savings, and fostering a sustainable supply chain. With strong communication skills and a proactive mindset, you will collaborate with internal stakeholders to optimize the indirect spend category while embodying Semco Maritime's values.

Your tasks & responsibilities 

You will be an integral member of the Procurement Center of Excellence, as well as the Global Procurement Community consisting of more than 35 colleagues. 

As a Category Manager for indirect spend, your role entails optimizing expenditure within designated categories. You'll negotiate agreements, manage supplier relationships, and oversee the procurement to pay process. Additionally, you'll collaborate with internal stakeholders to align purchasing strategies with business objectives. Analysing cost trends and implementing cost-saving initiatives are also crucial responsibilities. Overall, your aim is to drive efficiency and maximize value within indirect procurement categories.

Your tasks will include but are not limited to:

• Develop and execute category strategies for indirect spend areas like facility management, professional services, travel etc.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and negotiate with suppliers for favourable pricing and terms.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and offer strategic procurement assistance.
• Conduct market analysis and supplier evaluations to identify and assess potential suppliers.
• Manage supplier relationships and performance.
• Lead initiatives for a sustainable supply chain.
• Contribute to master data management efforts.
• Ensure the procurement to pay procedure is followed for relevant spend categories.

Your profile & qualifications 

You demonstrate ambition, drive, and self-motivation, effectively influencing your environment to accomplish overarching objectives. Ideally, you have at least 2 years of experience in Strategic Procurement or a related commercial field, with the desire to grow into a category manager role. While it is helpful, experience in indirect spend activities isn’t required.

You have the tact to work in a dynamic international corporation, along with a global mindset and excellent relationship-building skills, both internally across different functions/cultures and externally with suppliers. You're positive, proactive, and a team player, capable of working independently, with strong organizational skills to prioritize tasks effectively.

To succeed in this position, we imagine that you have:

• Good Danish and English skills – both oral as well as written
• Cooperative, proactive and with a mind-set of improving business to reduce risk and add value.
• Ensure the right prices, terms, and conditions from suppliers.
• Establish good connections with internal customers to the indirect spend role.

Your place of work will be at our Global HQ located in Esbjerg, the hub of the Danish energy industry, right on the waterfront – views do not get any better than this. The position is full-time. 

Welcome to Semco Maritime

At Semco Maritime, we create change. For people. For projects. And for the global energy sector. With us, you will join a community of over 2,200 of the most dedicated thinkers and doers in the energy industry who are driving real change and making their own personal mark on the global energy landscape.

While everyone knows why the energy transition is vital, we are concerned with the journey. How to get there. By providing the answers needed to make change real. Because we believe that global energy ambitions can only be realized through hard work and clever pragmatic solutions. This is what we do. This is what we invite you to participate in.

So yes, working for us will change the energy sector – and may well change you too. 

Care to join the movement?

Change. With us. 

Become an energy pioneer.

We conduct our interviews on an ongoing basis, so if you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible via the link on this page:

https://semcomaritime.career.emply.com/ad/category-manager-indirect-spend/n0btm9/en

Deadline is 09.05.2024.

If you have any questions, you are more than welcome to contact Dina Trolle Backs, Manager, Head of Global Sourcing Excellence at + 45 7914 7961.

Let’s drive change together.

Apply today to leave your mark on the global energy industry.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

Semco Maritime is an international engineering and contracting company with 2,200 employees and 40 years of dedication rooted in both the conventional energy sector and the offshore wind industry. This puts us in a unique position to bridge today's and tomorrow’s solutions, constantly seeking clever and pragmatic ways to realise global energy ambitions. We do this through comprehensive project management across all phases of energy projects together with world-leading partners across the globe.

https://www.semcomaritime.com/