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Category: Kalmar

Facility: Sourcing

Location:

Stargard, PL Tampere, FI Helsinki, FI

Senior Manager, Market Area Procurement

Purpose of the position

TheSenior Manager, Market Area Procurementwill lead a global sourcing team focused exclusively onindirect procurement categoriesacross Kalmar’s market areas and plants. This role is responsible forbenchmarking and implementing cost-saving solutions from other countries where Kalmar operates, ensuring best practices are shared and adopted.

The role emphasizesleadership, strategic execution, and business impact, ensuring that the team drivescost savings, mitigates risks, and executes global and regional sourcing strategieseffectively. A key part of this role is ensuring the team remainsclosely connected to the countries and stakeholders, supporting indirect procurement excellence while collaborating with global and regional teams to align strategies and optimize supplier relationships.

Main tasks and responsibilities

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and develop the Market Area & Plant Sourcing Team (up to 9 reports).

• Ensure execution of global and regional sourcing strategies for indirect procurement.

• Foster a collaborative and performance-driven culture, ensuring strong connections with stakeholders across regions.

• Provide coaching, vision, and direction, driving team engagement and capability development.

Indirect Procurement & Cost Optimization

• Responsible for indirect procurement categories, ensuring cost savings, risk mitigation, and compliance.

• Benchmark and implement savings solutions from Kalmar’s global sites, leveraging best practices.

• Develop and execute procurement strategies that drive efficiency and financial impact.

• Strengthen sourcing profile and visibility across key European markets.

Stakeholder Engagement & Finance Collaboration

• Work closely with Finance, Sales & Service, and Operations to align sourcing strategies with business needs.

• Support the rollout of new procurement processes, ensuring alignment with excellence initiatives.

• Act as a trusted advisor, ensuring effective communication and buy-in from key stakeholders.

Process Improvement & Digitalization

• Ensure best practices are shared across countries and drive process optimization.

• Develop and track procurement KPIs and dashboards to measure sourcing performance.

• Work with finance controlling to maintain an Indirect Sourcing Handbook, improving cost transparency.

• Support digitalization initiatives to enhance procurement efficiency and reporting.

What you’ll need to succeed

Education

• Bachelor’s degree inSupply Chain Management, Finance, Engineering, or a related field (MBA preferred).

Experience

• Minimum of8 years of leadership experienceinProcurement and Strategic Sourcing, focusing onindirect procurement.

• Proven track record in benchmarking and implementing cost-saving strategiesacross multiple countries.

• Experiencemanaging cross-functional teams and leading large-scale sourcing initiativesin a global, multi-site environment.

• Strong background infinance collaboration, risk management, and procurement process optimization.

• Experience instakeholder engagement at executive levelsand raising procurement’s visibility within large organizations.

• Management experience in amultinational, matrix-structured organization.

Skills & Competencies

• Strongleadership, coaching, and team developmentskills.

• Excellentnegotiation, influencing, and relationship-buildingabilities.

• Ability to driveorganizational change and stakeholder alignment.

• Stronganalytical and problem-solvingcapabilities, with financial acumen to assess cost-saving impact.

• Effective communicator, able toengage and influence business leaders and local teams across regions.

• Ability tobalance strategic vision with hands-on execution, ensuring measurable procurement results.

You will be part of

Working closely with:

• Global Sourcing & Procurement Teams

• Finance & Controlling

• Sales & Service

• Operations Leaders

• Functional Leadership Teams (e.g., HR, Finance)

• Sustainability Teams

Interested to join?

We look forward to receiving yourCV.

For any questions, please contact the recruiter at:ireneusz.iskra@kalmarglobal.com