Procurement Manager - Accessories

Why join us?

Founded in Copenhagen in 2002 with the ambition of creating contemporary furniture, lighting and accessories for modern living, HAY’s vision is to create high-quality and well-designed products in collaboration with some of the world’s most talented, curious, and courageous designers. Through the commitment to sophisticated industrial manufacturing processes, HAY strives to make good design accessible to the widest possible audience.

PROCUREMENT MANAGER - ACCESSORIES

Based out of Horsens or Copenhagen

Are you an experienced Manager within the Lifestyle business looking for a new and exciting opportunity? Are you a team-oriented person with a holistic, ambitious, and positive mindset and great stakeholder management and communication skills? And are you someone who is enthusiastic about interior decoration and is motivated by working together, to optimize the assortment and processes and being operational hands-on?

If yes, please read on!

About the job

At our office facilities by the harbor edge in Horsens or in the heart of Copenhagen, you will become part of an energetic office community, consisting of HAY colleagues looking forward to welcoming you to our community. We cherish our strong HAY spirit of openness, caring and motivating energy, and we pride ourselves on treating each other with respect and supporting each other to stay focused, committed, and always motivated.

As Procurement Manager - Accessories, you will become part of a strong and ambitious Supply Chain team and a dedicated buying team covering Accessories. Your everyday activities will be characterized by high speed and the requirement to engage in, direct and prioritize between multiple projects in cooperation with your team and colleagues.

More specifically, your tasks will include

Responsible for the Accessories assortment handed over from Design/Product Development through its Product-Life-Circle until discontinuation including full product optimization in the PLC period
Lead, manage and support of a buying team of three employees
Daily operation, analysis and optimization of the Accessories assortment in balance with the team, suppliers, and PD, Sales, Quality and Sustainability & Compliance
Ensure high performance from suppliers and maintain close relations with them including development and sourcing
Secure optimized forecasting and replenishment incl. best procedures
Insure best conditions in terms of prices, stock turn and service level
Continuously improving workflow and procedures
Ensuring fast, relevant and close collaboration and communication with all relevant stakeholders
Take active part in the operational tasks

Travel to suppliers and fairs is expected to be approximately 10-15 days per year within Europe and Asia.

Are you the Procurement Manager - Accessories we are looking for?

Role expectations

You have experience within assortment management and optimization, negotiation and running projects, coordinating tasks and leading teams
With extensive knowledge of the principles of supply chain management and purchasing, you take full responsibility of the supplier base for the accessories category
Your structured, fact-based mindset and your solid supply chain management experience combined with your excellent analytical skills form a strong foundation for this position
Your work style is characterized by being positive, outgoing, dynamic, and commercial – securing the details
You thrive with deadlines, and you are strong in keeping them
You have strong communication and negotiation skills, and your approach builds strong relationships, making you a natural team leader for your team
It is natural for you to have the customer experience in focus

Experience required

Experience with supply chain management, purchasing and negotiation, with a relevant background supporting the role and responsibility
Proven your skills in a previous similar position
Experience within home accessories business may be an advantage
Advanced IT skills (proficient with D365/Power BI, Microsoft Office Package, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint)
Fluency in English

What we offer

We offer a very exciting job in HAY within Category Management and Supply Chain, in an innovative organization focusing on reaching great results.

To us, it is all about getting to know the business and our employees, defining the right commercial solutions, and getting it done. We want you to participate in that mission and of course, have fun along the way.

By joining HAY, you will have the opportunity to grow on a professional as well as a personal level, enhancing your knowledge within the product and purchasing field working closely with highly experienced and inspiring colleagues.