Business Consultant, Global Procurement

Are you ready to take on the challenge as our new Business Consultant in Procurement Excellence & Transformation, working with strategy development, transformation and digitalization?

In Global Procurement, we have recently introduced an ambitious transformation roadmap for the coming years. This strategy emphasizes enhancing global category management, mitigating supply chain risks, fostering a sustainable supply chain, and digitizing our ways of working. Additionally to this, we are committed to achieving high-reaching cost and sustainability targets.

The Procurement Excellence team plays a crucial role in delivering on this transformation and targets. By scoping and driving strategic initiatives, enabling data-driven insights, and developing tools and frameworks, the team is instrumental in creating efficiencies and supporting the broader procurement organization in achieving our objectives.

What can you look forward to in this role

You will be a key driver in our procurement transformation, where you will drive strategic projects, develop our procurement toolbox and support digitalizing the way we work. More specifically, you will:

• Implement strategic projects, including developing high-impact category strategies together with our category managers
• Capture and analyse data to provide comprehensive support, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis, and deliver actionable insights to the procurement organization and its stakeholders
• Form decision-making materials to support informed and strategic choices
• Develop and implement best-practice processes, frameworks (e.g. supplier relationship management) and procurement tools
• Find opportunities to improve efficiency through smarter workflows, with a focus on automation and digitalization initiatives
• Train the procurement organizations in new tools, systems and ways of working incl. sharing of best practices.

You will report to the Director of Procurement Excellence & Transformation, and you will work closely with our category management teams for direct and indirect categories, procurement sustainability team and with many other partners across Hempel’s business entities around the globe.

What are we looking for :

We are looking for you, who are a forward-looking talent, has a can-do attitude and challenge status quo. We imagine that you:

• Have a master’s degree in Business, Economics or similar
• Have experience and have demonstrated strong results from a procurement or business development function in a larger global company or from management consulting
• Have a track-record of delivering high impact projects
• Have a proven consulting toolbox and have experience in working with conceptualizing, strategy development, execution and follow up
• Have strong analytical skills and master PowerPoint and Excel at an expert level
• If you have experience with working with digital procurement tools it is an advantage

As a person, you are performance driven and possess a can-do-attitude which enables you to scope and drive activities forward and take the delivery from good to great. You possess great business acumen and understands the importance of impact versus process orientation, with the ability to prioritize to improve value. Further, you have great interpersonal and communication skills enabling you to ensure consensus from peers and you have the ability to influence partners at all levels.

You will work out of our offices in Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. Some travelling is expected (5-20 days).

How do you move on from here?

Is it you we are looking for? Are you are curious about the job or want to learn more about Hempel? Go ahead and contact Director for Procurement Excellence & Transformation, Ditte Emilie Jonsen on mail: DIJ@Hempel.com.

To apply for this position, please submit your application letter with a CV in English via our recruitment system by clicking the link ‘Apply for position’. We will evaluate applications and invite for interviews on an ongoing basis.

More about Hempel

Hempel is a global leader in sustainable coating systems.

With a turnover of more than €2bn and operations around the globe, Hempel leads the industry and significantly increases the sustainability of industries such as marine, wind energy and infrastructure.

At Hempel, you’re welcomed to a global community of 7,500 colleagues around the world. A workplace built on shared trust, mutual respect and support for each other.

We’re on a mission to double our impact. To succeed, we need bright minds and team players. Which is why, from day one, your input, ideas and initiative are not only welcomed, but expected. In return, you will enjoy great opportunities for development in a growing global company – and be part of the solution by contributing to our global impact.

At Hempel, we are committed to everyone feeling safe, valued and treated equally, in an environment where each employee can bring their authentic selves to work.  We believe that inclusion is key to innovation and by bringing together the most diverse perspectives and talents,  we can achieve great things, together.

We are proud to be majority owned by the Hempel Foundation, dedicated to philanthropic activities, with our earnings contributing to a multitude of charitable initiatives every year. It means that when working at Hempel, your hard work and dedication contributes to a greater cause, making your career matter twice.

Learn more about Hempel and our commitments on hempel.com/career.

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At Hempel, you’re welcomed to a global community of +7000 colleagues around the world. A workplace built on shared trust, mutual respect and support for each other. 

We’re on a mission to double our impact. To succeed, we need bright minds and team players. Which is why, from day one, your input, ideas and initiative are not only welcomed, but expected. In return, you will enjoy great opportunities for development in a growing global company – and be part of the solution by contributing to our global impact. 

At Hempel, we are committed to everyone feeling safe, valued and treated equally, in an environment where each employee can bring their authentic selves to work.  We believe that inclusion is key to innovation and by bringing together the most diverse perspectives and talents,  we can achieve great things, together.