Are you an experienced procurement professional interested in supporting the manufacturing operations of Finland’s leading pharmaceutical company? If your strengths lie in strategic thinking, negotiations and team leading, we might have an opportunity just for you!

Description of position

Orion’s Procurement organization is looking for a category manager for one of our biggest Indirect spend areas, namely MRO (maintenance, repair and operations), supplies and facilities. This is a 2 year fixed term position to substitute during a job rotation. The location of the position is in Espoo or in Turku.

In this position, you would play a central role in supporting Orion’s manufacturing and facility management in building well-being and ensuring a bright future for Finnish pharmaceuticals. Orion’s Indirect Procurement area is divided into five main procurement areas which are all headed by a category manager. You would be heading a category team of six sourcing managers who would report to you directly. You in turn would report to the Head of Indirect and Sustainable Procurement.

As a category manager, you would be responsible for turning stakeholder targets into strategies and targets fit for your sourcing manager team. You would balance your managerial and team lead role with also being responsible for certain key supplier relationships and strategic sourcing projects. You would also participate development projects and of course support and bring value to your stakeholders.

Description of unit

Indirect Procurement is part of our Supply Chain & Procurement organization. Our Indirect Procurement team is responsible for the strategic procurement of Indirect services & products and is the largest procurement team by spend at Orion. Our procurement function has very strong competences and processes within the areas of sourcing, supplier management, risk management and sustainability.

Our team has a great team spirit where we wish to continuously develop the way we work. Within your role, you would also have the opportunity to further develop core competence areas to ensure best-in-class practices within our procurement function.

Currently, we are focusing on further developing our core procurement processes and governance model as well as ensuring sustainability and compliance throughout. We are also taking steps to develop the digital tools to support our work within strategic procurement.  We aim at ensuring that our procurement professionals are able to develop and future-proof their skillsets.

We offer

At Orion, you will be part of building well-being every day at work. This particular category will give you a great overview of Orion’s manufacturing and laboratory operations. As the leading pharmaceutical company in Finland, Orion is a respected player on the global market as well. Our company values are at the core of what we do – we appreciate each other, build the future and strive for excellence. Read more about us as an employer from our website.

We offer comprehensive staff benefits such as sports and cultural benefits, a wide selection of health and cosmetic products in our own staff stores and various sports and hobby clubs. In addition of that we offer a comprehensive occupational health service. Find out more about our employment benefits on our website.

Requirements

Within Indirect Procurement, our main goal is to support our key stakeholders in reaching their targets. For this to be possible, you need to have a good understanding of stakeholder needs and ways of working in order to combine this with your expertise in the area of strategic procurement. This requires excellent collaboration and networking skills.

The category in questions is very broad, ranging from supplies and services for Orion’s factories, facilites and laboratories, to MRO, technical operations, waste and energy. Previous procurement experience from these areas, especially from energy sourcing (e.g. electricity, energy investments and/or energy as a service) is seen as an asset. Efficient ways of working, prioritization skills as well as communication skills are key within this procurement area. Team leadership and interpersonal skills are also central to this role as you will be leading our largest indirect category.

We expect you to have a relevant university degree and fluency in both English and Finnish.

Additional information

If you think your experience, background and development mindset would be a good match for our team, please send your application and CV, (including your salary request) latest by 5^th of January.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Carolina Sved (Head of Indirect and Sustainable Procurement), 050 966 5720 on the following days: Thursday 19.12 @13-14, Friday 20.12 @ 13-14, Thursday 2.1 @ 11-12 or @13-14 or Friday 3.1@ 10-11.

We have initially planned the following schedule for this recruitment process:

Video interviews: week 3

First face-to-face interviews: week 4-5

Assessments & final interviews: week 6-7

Decision: week 7

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Orion Corporation operates in more than 30 countries, where we Orionees, 3600 in total, work in all kinds of positions. Among us there are Research Scientists, Laboratory Technicians, Engineers and IT Specialists as well as people working in Production, just to mention some examples. We offer diverse and responsible jobs to our personnel in a truly multi-disciplinary work environment. We encourage people to develop their competences and offer opportunities to affect the job description and creating their own career path at Orion. We are searching for top talents who are ready to share our passion for the work that we do.