Engineering Procurement Specialist, Global Sourcing

Are you passionate about procurement and eager to work in a dynamic, international environment? FOSS Global Sourcing is looking for an Engineering Procurement Specialist to join our team in Hillerød.

In this role, you’ll strengthen collaboration with our contract manufacturer and suppliers in India during the first two years. Your time will be split between India and Hillerød/Frederikssund, with your main workplace in Denmark. From Q1 2026, our Supply Chain organization will relocate to brand-new facilities in Frederikssund.

You will be the link between customer demand and suppliers — driving cost efficiency, LEAN sourcing, and supporting New Product Introduction (NPI). We’re looking for candidates with purchasing experience, strong commercial insight, and a solid technical or production background.

Join FOSS, where collaboration, job satisfaction, and innovation shape our work — and help us improve food quality worldwide.

Exciting key role for our success

In the role of Engineering Procurement Specialist at FOSS Global Sourcing, you will play a pivotal role in our supply chain operations. Your primary responsibility will be to implement and maintain sourcing strategies in alignment with the goals set by our Category Managers.

You will report directly to the Director of Global Sourcing.

Meet your team

FOSS Global Sourcing is part of our Supply Chain organization, focused on cost efficiency and LEAN sourcing across the inbound supply chain. We support global production in Hillerød, Denmark, and Suzhou, China, with a dedicated team of 20 in Hillerød and 7 in Suzhou — fostering a collaborative, performance-driven environment.

Daily tasks

As an Engineering Procurement Specialist, you will:

  • Engage and qualify new suppliers, securing strong partnerships and agreements.
  • Collaborate with the NPI team to integrate suppliers into new product development.
  • Work closely with contract manufacturers to improve quality and efficiency.
  • Establish and manage long-term supplier agreements to ensure reliable, cost-effective supply.
  • Monitor supplier performance and drive development initiatives.
  • Partner with Category Managers to align supplier setup and strategy.
  • Support implementation of Engineering Change Orders.
  • Contribute to benchmarking and supply chain optimization projects.
  • Ensure sourcing activities meet regulatory and quality standards.
  • Provide operational support on delivery, quality, and invoice issues.

By fulfilling these tasks, you will play a key role in driving the efficiency and success of our supply chain. Additionally, in this position, you will work closely with our contract manufacturer, ensuring smooth coordination between the manufacturer, our Global suppliers, NPI, and the broader FOSS team in Hillerød.

Why FOSS stands out

At FOSS, we foster a collaborative and innovative work culture built on trust, open communication, and clear goals. We encourage initiative and responsibility, giving employees real influence over their work and ensuring everyone feels valued and part of our shared success.

Your skills, our success

We’re looking for an Engineering Procurement Specialist with a degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent purchasing experience with a technical background.

To succeed, you should bring:

  • Drive and Results Focus – Self-motivated and goal-oriented, ensuring high performance.
  • Adaptability and Problem-Solving – Able to handle changing priorities and resolve sourcing issues effectively.
  • Collaboration – Skilled at cross-functional teamwork and managing multiple tasks.
  • Procurement Expertise – Strong sourcing, negotiation, and supplier management skills.
  • Supply Chain Insight – Understanding end-to-end supply chain processes for optimal efficiency.
  • International Mindset – Experience with the Indian market or global suppliers is a plus.
  • Data and ERP Skills – Confident in SAP and data analysis to support informed decisions.

Example position and educational background: A candidate currently working as a Senior Buyer, Procurement Manager, Supply Chain Analyst, Technical support, Quality engineer or Technical Buyer with a degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or related technical fields. Alternatively, extensive experience in purchasing with a technical background is also considered.

Ready to make a difference?

We interview continuously, so apply soon.
For more information, contact Dan Stig Jensen, Director of Global Sourcing, at +45 6190 0898. FOSS values diversity and inclusion — please omit photo and age from your application.

Ansættelsestype: Permanent

Hjemmearbejde: Not disclosed

Ugentlig arbejdstid: Full-time

How to apply

Our goal is to make the recruitment process as professional and positive as possible. The recruitment process starts when you’ve submitted your application online. Vacant positions at FOSS do not always have an application deadline, so please apply today rather than tomorrow. The reason for this is that we want to ensure a fast and efficient process, which means that we review applications on an ongoing basis. Candidates who are invited for interviews will receive an invitation per email.

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Sustainability is an integral part of our business

At FOSS, we have a taken a holistic approach to Sustainability. It’s not only about conducting our business in a responsible and ethical manner. It’s also about developing solutions that make a difference in the world. We help our customers tackle difficult global challenges such as efficiency in food production, consistency in quality and food safety.

We are operating in a world with significant population growth, scarce resources, food safety scandals and growing concerns about the climate. As the leading business-to-business provider of dedicated analytical technology, we play a key role in this environment.

For example, our technology is increasingly important in expanding food supply by making rational use of increasingly limited resources, while ensuring the best quality food reaches the consumer. To address this challenge there is a need for the development of solutions that analyze and make data manageable and actionable throughout the production process. Information management of analytics will be the future of the food and feed industry, enabling producers to increase yields by being more efficient. Intelligent and automated processes that run on data will define our customers’ future production - and much of the 10% of our turnover we annually invest in research and development will be dedicated to this area.

Working at FOSS

We work on a global scale to develop the people working at FOSS. We strive to enhance job satisfaction and motivation by constantly improving the competencies of our managers as well as following up on employee satisfaction.

We know our employees are our strongest asset.

Therefore, we emphasise, invest in and appraise our employees’ knowledge, skills and attitudes, and take pride in creating an environment with trust, confidence and development. We also believe that clearly defined objectives enable people to achieve their performance potential and that the support from the immediate superior is essential. Most important of all; trained, well-motivated and competent employees are a perquisite for success in the future. We manage by values, but also clear objectives, and follow up through regular meetings between the employee and the manager. In these meetings, there is also room to discuss career aspirations and other development opportunities including internal career moves.

You will have the opportunity for internal career development.

As a company, we are small enough for you to get high influence in the job, but we are also big enough for complex development and global careers. If you want to move in a new direction and continue to develop along with your professional capable colleagues, we offer the opportunity for internal career moves inside FOSS. As we are a knowledge-heavy company, this is a win-win scenario for both FOSS and our employees.

Work with creative and professionally strong colleagues.

Teamwork is essential to FOSS. By developing solutions in cross-functional teams, we integrate knowledge, experience and competences from many perspectives to achieve great results. We communicate in a straight-forward manner and solve challenges together. In FOSS, we truly value that you voice your opinion, take responsibility and ownership. Our company size in turn allows for independent, dynamic and fast decisions.

If you join FOSS, we promise you that you will enter an environment with new learnings through projects, new technologies and market opportunities. We love to be entrepreneurial and open-minded to new ideas, and if you get a good idea – you can bring it forward.

Join a company with a clear business idea and purpose, but also strong values.

In a global world with a growing population, there is an ever-increasing demand for safer food, production that is more efficient and less food waste. Globally, we need to produce as much food the next 40 years as the last 8,000 years to meet the needs of a growing population and declining natural resources. A huge challenge, which requires that we become better at utilizing the resources available.

The business vision of FOSS to contribute to a more sustainable use of increasingly valuable agricultural resources, and to the nutrition and health of the people of the world. We provide the industry’s best analytics, which add value to our customers by improving quality and optimising food and agricultural production.

Join FOSS, and you will be part of this mission, more relevant today than ever. 

Meet our employees

Meet Jan – manager of Concept Development in Research & Development

Jan’s daily work as a manager in Concept Development consists of generating new ideas in collaboration with his team and deciding which ideas should be developed. The daily challenge of finding the right solutions to address the needs of our customers is solved by a diverse and competent group of specialists working together.



Meet Mariana – Chemometrician in Research & Development

Mariana is a Spanish Chemometrician specialised in NIR. Coming from a research background her move to FOSS was motivated by a desire to work with real products and real customers. AT FOSS she is involved in the innovation of new products, developing calibrations for the EyeFoss image analysis grain analyser.

About FOSS

FOSS creates end-to-end solutions that secure and improve food quality. From raw material to finished product. Our analysis instruments refine measurements into information management that enables businesses to run intelligent data-driven productions with less waste and bigger yields. Controlling cost and quality across all sectors and value chains, we help food and agricultural producers limit the number of human errors, scale their business faster and reduce manual labour as well as labour costs. We call it analytics beyond measure.

Over the last 60 years, we have made it our business to define the standard of analytical solutions for the food and agricultural industry. We pioneered advanced analysis for the challenging production environments in the 1960’s, and we were the first to integrate chemical composition analysis in process lines. Now our resolve and ambition have also made us the international benchmark in the field of chemometrics and real time analytics.

FOSS is a 100% family-owned company and the leading supplier of innovative analytical solutions; 98 percent of FOSS’ business is generated outside Denmark. FOSS has more than 100 patents and more than 20 world-first product introductions. FOSS employs more than 1700 dedicated people worldwide and has manufacturing, research and development facilities in Denmark and China. Solutions are sold and supported through FOSS sales and service companies in 28 countries and by more than 75 distributors. Many employees have a top-level scientific or technical background, including more than 130 Master of Science and more than 20 PhDs in areas such as photonics, chemometrics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, fermentation and bio-engineering, astrophysics, optical communication, physics, quality, nanotechnology, food science and adaptive radiotherapy. We also employ many factory-trained and certified support engineers stationed close to our customers.

FOSS

Foss Allé 1

DK-3400 Hilleroed

Denmark

Phone: +45 70 10 33 70

E-mail: info@foss.dk