The posting
The Impact You'll Make
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Do you thrive in a role where strategic thinking and hands-on execution go hand in hand?**
As our Specialist, Strategic Procurement & Quality at Danfoss IXA, you'll play a critical role in securing the supplier partnerships, materials, and commercial agreements that support our products and future growth.
Your work will help secure material availability, strong supplier performance, and competitive cost levels, ensuring the business can meet both customer expectations and future growth ambitions.
Working in a small and agile organization, you'll have a visible impact across the business. Success in this role comes from combining a strategic mindset with a collaborative approach, building trusted relationships internally and externally, and helping create a supply chain that is resilient, efficient, and ready to support future growth.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop and manage the supplier base, balancing cost, quality, delivery performance, inventory, and supply risk.
- Lead supplier selection, sourcing activities, commercial negotiations, contracting, onboarding, and ongoing supplier quality performance management.
- Drive cost improvements and strengthen supply continuity through structured risk management, inventory strategies, and mitigation plans.
- Partner with colleagues across R&D, Quality, Operations, Planning, Finance, Sales, and Business Development to support projects and secure material availability.
- Combine strategic purchasing responsibilities with hands-on operational purchasing activities, helping resolve supply chain challenges and secure uninterrupted business operations.
- Improve stock management, increase transparency, and drive productivity improvements to support business performance.
You will also serve as a key user and go-to person for our SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud system, supporting the team and contributing to reliable material data and processes.
What We're Looking For
- Experience within strategic purchasing, sourcing, procurement, or supply chain in a manufacturing, engineering, or technical environment.
- Proven ability to negotiate with suppliers and manage commercial agreements while balancing cost, quality, delivery performance, and supply risk.
- Experience working with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, and using ERP systems to support purchasing, material planning, and supply chain processes.
- A practical and hands-on approach, with the flexibility to move between strategic initiatives and operational priorities when business needs require it.
- Strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills, combined with a team-oriented mindset and a willingness to support colleagues across functions.
We're looking for someone who enjoys taking ownership, follows challenges through to resolution, and thrives in a small and agile organization where teamwork, flexibility, and a broad business perspective are essential to success.
What You'll Get from Us
- You’ll have significant autonomy and the opportunity to influence supplier relationships, procurement practices, and supply chain performance in a small organization.
- You'll work closely with decision-makers and colleagues across several functions while benefiting from the knowledge, network, and career opportunities of the wider Danfoss organization.
- We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
- You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
- You’ll receive benefits like annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about - we think they’re pretty great.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us. #LI-KJ1
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
Brand
Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.
Our solutions are used in areas such as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, marine, and on- and off-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for data centers, renewable energy, energy storage, heat recovery, as well as contribute to district energy solutions for cities.
Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned and employs over 39,000 people. We create long-term value for our customers in more than 100 countries with a global footprint of around 100 factories.
