Inköpschef BIM Kemi Group

Purchase Manager BIM Kemi Group
As Purchase Manager for BIM Kemi Group you will be an important part of our commitment to help customers in the pulp and paper industry to sustainably maintain and develop their natural resources and raw materials. Through your high level of drive and your excellent leadership skills you will together with our units in Sweden, Finland, UK and Norway further improve BIMs purchasing processes and activities. You will also, together with BIMs Logistic team, improve our processes and activities related to transports of goods to our customers. In this role you will move between strategic work and operational issues, hence a flexible mindset and a positive attitude is important.
About the position
You will work individually as well as in different teams and closely together with other BIM functions. Your main responsibility is purchase of raw materials, packaging and transport solutions. When needed, you will support the organisation with your expertise within purchasing and your negotiation skills also in other areas. An important part in this position is to lead BIMs Purchasing team as well as BIMs Logistic team. These teams consist of representatives from the different BIM units, hence travelling to our different units, as well as to meet with suppliers, from time to time is necessary.
Your responsibilities and tasks, among others, will be:
· Be the owner of Purchase Management on Group level
· Continuously improve the strategy and the processes within the purchasing area
· Ensure optimized solutions for group common raw material purchases and transports
· Responsible for larger negotiations of strategic raw materials
· Support the local units in negotiations and other purchasing activities when needed
· Ensure the best solutions considering quality, cost and regulatory requirements for our raw materials
· Ensuring the best solutions for transports of BIM products to our customers together with the Logistic team
· Monitor, analyse and communicate the price development, availability as well as other important aspects for BIM raw materials
· Actively develop a more sustainable supply chain in line with the BIM group overall business plan and our customers’ requirements
· Be the owner of overall goals and KPIs within the purchasing area in BIM Group
· Support R&D in finding new and more sustainable raw materials
· Be an active part of BIMs Supply Chain team consisting of the Production Managers from our four production units, BIMs Quality & Safety Manager, Environment & Regulatory Affairs Manager and BIMs Supply Chain & Manufacturing Manager
Your profile
You have a degree in chemistry, and you have knowledge of the Western European chemical market.
You have a proven background, 3 - 5 years, within the field of purchasing, and your negotiations skills are on a high level.
You are a person with a high drive, and the ability to self-manage and you deliver according to deadlines. You have a positive mind set and a high level of engagement. You should have the ability to move between strategical work and more operational issues. You need to have leadership skills as well as communication skills.
You have experience from working in an international environment, and your English is excellent. German and French are a plus.
Experience from purchase of transport solutions is a plus.
Experience in ERP systems, preferably IFS is a plus.
We operate as a matrix organisation, and you will report to our Supply Chain & Manufacturing Manager.


BIM Kemi is a fast-growing, innovative chemical specialist focusing on creating more value from fewer resources and use the world’s limited resources more efficiently. Together with our customers and partners we will contribute to make life on earth more sustainable, healthy and inspiring. Our offering is founded on a strong commitment to help customers in the pulp and paper industry to sustainably maintain and develop their natural resources and raw materials. We are an entrepreneurial family business, founded in 1973, with long term focus on innovation, customer-oriented flexibility and sustainability. We are about 210 employees working worldwide and our local operations include Sweden, Norway, Finland, England, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Portugal, Spain, France, South Africa and dedicated agents and distributors in most other pulp and papermaking countries. Our headquarters is in Stenkullen near Gothenburg, Sweden, where you also find our central R&D department, customer service lab and one of our five production centres.
Does this sound like a workplace for you? Lovely, welcome with your application, no later than January the 6th.


LOCATION: Stenkullen Sweden
SCOPE: Full time
SALARY: Fixed salary
APPLICATION: Submit your application via the link on our website; www.bimkemi.com