FERROSAN MEDICAL DEVICES - Category Manager

Do you want to be responsible for developing our Sourcing of Packaging and Raw materials to new heights? Do you want to make a difference for patients undergoing surgery by securing the compliance of the medical devices used by healthcare professionals? 

Here you have the opportunity to get an exciting and challenging job, as Category Manager, in a international company. As Ferrosan Medical Devices is growing, you will be able to shape the job in our Strategic Sourcing Department to a large extent. The position refers to the Senior Manager of Strategic Sourcing.

The department Strategic Sourcing is part of Supply Chain Management, which is a central area in Ferrosan Medical Devices. Strategic Sourcing consists of 6 experienced Category Managers covering direct spend, CMOs and Indirect spend including equipment and machinery. The team is responsible for all aspects of supplier management including supplier selection, negotiation, and collaboration as well as risk mitigation, spend/savings program, and category strategies. 

Responsibilities

You get a central position, with responsibility for the collaboration and development of the company's Packaging and Raw material Suppliers. There will be a great deal of contact with the suppliers, who are primarily in Europe, as well as a broad contact surface across Ferrosan Medical Devices. Your main tasks will be:
•    Establishment and maintenance of Category strategies
•    Daily handling and collaboration with our current Suppliers
•    Negotiations and conclusion of contracts
•    Development of the supplier base
•    Optimizing the processes and structure around the Suppliers
•    Participate in various optimization projects and potentially product development projects
 
The overall purpose of the position is to ensure robust cooperation and management of our Packaging and Raw Material suppliers, this to reduce total costs through close cooperation, taking quality, reliability, and risk management into account.

To be successful, you must internally work closely together with e.g. Finance, the Development department, the Quality organization and your colleagues in Supply Chain Management and Operations.

Your profile

The ideal candidate for the job holds experience from a similar role managing categories from a highly regulated industry such as medical devices, pharma, biotech, life science or similar. As a person you have a pragmatic approach, and you find solutions to identified problems 
•    Minimum B.Sc. – ideally a degree at M.Sc. level as an Engineer, Economist or within Supply Chain
•    Minimum +2 years of experience within purchasing and/or Supply Chain
•    You have experience with Category Management and supplier handling 
•    Experienced in stakeholder management
•    Your work style is involving and impactful
•    You think in holistic terms and with a business-oriented approach to the solutions
•    You have created visible results in your current or previous roles
•    You have experience with GMP 
•    Possess strong oral/written communication skills in English
 
We offer a truly purpose driven workplace where you can have real impact  
We offer a truly purpose driven workplace with strong roots in values. What exactly this means is quickly visible to our new colleagues. We are driven by improving patient outcomes and we take our values to work every day – we care about each other, our environment and our customers and we win for patients with innovative high-quality solutions.  
 
We offer an inclusive workplace with the opportunity to have real impact and a development curve, that you can steepen in the pace, that is suitable to you. You will meet a DK rooted company growing in number of international colleagues and a way of working, where hybrid, digital, learning and innovation are key words. And we take pride in having fun😊. 
 
Some of the facts and a little piece of history   
Ferrosan Medical Devices develops and produces a portfolio of medical devices used in surgical care. Our portfolio consists of various hemostatic products to minimize bleeding challenges in surgery and electromechanical medical devices to perform breast biopsies. We are an international company with products registered in more than 100 countries. Our products are marketed in collaboration with global medtech partners. New ideas are developed and matured from the first thought to finished implementation in production. And we manage the business with an uncompromising focus on quality based on current GMP requirements.   

Want to join our team? 
Send your application along with your CV before June 14, 2024. We will process the applications as we receive them. 

Questions? Please do not hesitate to contact us:

Senior Manager, Category Management

Mia Bloch

mibl@ferrosanmd.com / 52 13 29 50

We look forward to hearing from you. 

Your profile

The ideal candidate for the job holds experience from a similar role managing categories from a highly regulated industry such as medical devices, pharma, biotech, life science or similar. As a person you have a pragmatic approach, and you find solutions to identified problems 
•    Minimum B.Sc. – ideally a degree at M.Sc. level as an Engineer, Economist or within Supply Chain
•    Minimum +2 years of experience within purchasing and/or Supply Chain
•    You have experience with Category Management and supplier handling 
•    Experienced in stakeholder management
•    Your work style is involving and impactful
•    You think in holistic terms and with a business-oriented approach to the solutions
•    You have created visible results in your current or previous roles
•    You have experience with GMP 
•    Possess strong oral/written communication skills in English