Global Purchasing Manager Indirect

**Join us and make a difference**

Do you want a career that impacts millions of people for the good? At Mölnlycke, you’ll be helping to equip medical professionals with solutions to improve outcomes for patients. And you’ll develop your career in a growing organisation with an inspirational culture - where you’ll be recognised for the results you’ve achieved.

In ORS at Mölnlycke, we aim for frictionless flow in the operating room, with solutions designed for safety.

**About the Job**

Are you ready to challenge yourself in a new environment and have a real impact? Mölnlycke is now looking for a **_Global Purchasing Manager Indirect & Sterilisation ORS._**

As a Global Purchasing Manager Indirect & Sterilisation ORS, there is great opportunity and variety in your daily activities. You will lead the Indirect Purchasing within ORS across all factories to ensure purchases are compliant and cost-effective. You will also lead and develop the indirect procurement teams in Belgium, Czech Republic, Thailand, and potentially other countries in the future. Additionally, you will be responsible for leading the sterilisation procurement for the entire company, driving process, project, and cost improvement initiatives.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead the Indirect Purchasing team for all factories within ORS, including team development.
- Develop the Indirect function for ORS to ensure good control of Indirect spend with clear cost-saving targets.
- Ensure cost-saving targets are achieved.
- Develop and harmonise the process for Indirect Purchasing across the ORS factories.
- Establish close collaboration with the central Indirect team to maximise synergies with the global team and other BAs.
- Work closely with Factory GMs to set strategies for Indirect Purchasing per factory.
- Represent Mölnlycke in appropriate audits.
- Act as a Global Procurement Category Manager for sterilisation suppliers, ensuring sufficient capacity at competitive prices with excellent service and quality levels.
- Ensure contractual agreements with sterilisation partners are in place.
- Collaborate with other BAs to understand their sterilisation demand and source capacity accordingly.
- Communicate performance from sterilisation partners and internal factories with management regularly.
- Ensure operational tasks with external sterilisation suppliers are completed.
- Support any sterilisation validation and regulatory activities.

**What you’ll need**
- Strong independent leadership abilities.
- Procurement knowledge covering Indirect & Sterilisation Services.
- Excellent negotiation skills.
- Drive to ensure execution.
- People leadership and stakeholder management.
- Commercially minded with analytical and strategic skills.
- In-depth understanding of procurement processes.
- Understanding of the medical device industry.
- Cultural sensitivity and fluency in English.
- Academic Business and/or technical degree.
- Over 5 years of experience in purchasing/sourcing.
- Experience in remote working leadership.

**Your work-life**

Global travel up to 20% of the time is necessary to visit subordinates, internal factories, and suppliers.

**Our approach to diversity and inclusion**

We strive to have a diverse mix of people from different cultures, ages, geographies, and genders, to reflect the world in which we operate and to facilitate innovative thinking across the business.

**About Mölnlycke**

Mölnlycke is a world-leading medical products and solutions company that equips healthcare professionals to achieve the best patient, clinical and economic outcomes.

Our business is organised in the four business areas Wound Care, Operating Room Solutions, Gloves and Antiseptics, where customer centricity, sustainability and digitalisation are at the heart of everything we do.

Mölnlycke employs around 8,700 people. The company headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden and we operate in more than 100 countries worldwide. Mölnlycke is a founding partner of GoCo Health Innovation City, a world-class innovation cluster for health, and in early 2025 our headquarters will move there.