Business Area:
- Employment type: Full-time
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supplier localization: Identify competitive, reliable, and strategic local suppliers (Mexico/US)
for direct material currently sourced from Asia to reduce lead time and carbon footprint
mainly, while working with cross
- functional teams to successfully qualify new products and
vendors.
- Strategic Sourcing: Developing and implementing procurement strategies for direct material.
- Supplier Management: Building and maintaining relationships with suppliers.
- Cost Management: Identifying cost-saving opportunities and implementing measures to
reduce procurement costs without compromising quality. This can involve negotiating better
pricing, leveraging volume discounts, or implementing cost control measures.
- Contract Management: Managing the entire lifecycle of contracts with suppliers. This
- includes drafting and reviewing contracts, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory.
- requirements, monitoring contract performance, and overseeing renewals or terminations.
- Process Improvement: Continuously improving procurement processes and practices to
drive efficiency and effectiveness.
- Risk Management: Assessing and mitigating risks associated with the procurement of direct
goods. This includes identifying potential risks, developing risk mitigation strategies, and
ensuring compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and company policies.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborating with internal stakeholders, such as finance,
- Legal, engineering, quality, and other departments to ensure alignment with organizational
goals.
- Data Analysis and Reporting: Analyzing procurement data, generating reports, and providing
insights to support decision-making. This involve tracking KPIs, monitoring supplier
performance metrics and identifying areas for improvement.
- Market Research: Staying updated with market trends, emerging technologies, and industry.
- Best practices related to indirect procurement. This includes attending industry conferences,
networking with peers, and conducting market intelligence activities.
- Maintain Agile and M3 systems (i.e., set up new suppliers, upload proper documentation,
implement lifecycle changes, update Purchase Agreements, etc.)Required Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or any other related field
- 5+ years' experience in Manufacturing environment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Work Environment:
This is a manufacturing facility and as a result, employees have the potential to be exposed to noise, chemicals, fumes, airborne particles, machinery, vibration, or other workplace hazards controlled within compliance of current safety and health standards.
How to Apply:
**About Ambu**:
Ambu has been bringing the solutions of the future to life since 1937. Today, millions of patients and healthcare professionals worldwide depend on the efficiency, safety and performance of our single-use endoscopy, anaesthesia, and patient monitoring solutions. We continuously look to the future with a commitment to deliver innovative quality products that have a positive impact on patient care and the work of healthcare professionals. Headquartered near Copenhagen in Denmark, Ambu employs approximately 4,500 people in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific.