Maternity cover: Chinese speaking Buyer

The world of Procurement is founded on global, sustainable relationships. If you’re a natural coordinator who enjoys building connections and following up with suppliers across continents, this is a role for you.

Right now, we’re on the lookout for a structured and persistent colleague with a good eye for opportunities in procuring quality components and parts for world-class loudspeakers. We need a dependable teammate who thrives in an international environment, where effective cross-cultural communication is a daily, operational success criteria.

·       Maternity cover.

·       Role is 37 hours per week, with the possibility to reduce to 32 hours depending on candidate suitability.

·       Full professional proficiency in Mandarin is required.
OUR VISION
In Dynaudio, we wish to enrich people’s lives through authentic sound and incredible experiences.

This means that every day 200 colleagues worldwide work together to create amazing loudspeakers for homes, monitors for sound studios and just as extraordinary sound systems for cars. YOUR MISSION
As our new Buyer you’re on a support mission: You’ll ensure on-time deliveries and sustainable supplier relationships and together with our Strategic Purchasers you’ll influence different cost-saving and supply chain optimisation projects.

Great communication is key. In dealing with suppliers, you’ll navigate the information flow in WeChat, Skype, Zoom, What’s App, e-mails, text messages and phone calls in order to establish and maintain relations that secure reliable goods from Europe and Asia.

Your primary tasks (80% of your daily work) as Buyer are to:

• handle daily purchase orders.

• handle suppliers:

  • Send forecast.
  • Maintain close communication to ensure deliveries are on time and in agreed quantity/quality.

• handle action list in ERP system + additional side counter orders:

  • Handle invoice workflow/edits and approval
  • Maintain master data

• ensure agreed KPI’s are obtained.

• maintain and create manuals within your work area.

As secondary tasks (20% of your daily work) you’ll work closely with our Strategic Purchasers to:

·       handle commercial claims towards suppliers + Engineer Change Requests (ECRs).

·       analyse capacity at suppliers.

·       initiate Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), supplier agreements and contracts.

·       negotiate and benchmark cost and terms within defined buyer groups.

YOU: THE RIGHT CANDIDATE
Essentially, the perfect candidate doesn’t exist; so give it a go and say it with your chest!

But maybe you have knowledge of the workings of the supply chain in a manufacturing company and previous experience as a Purchaser or Buyer. Also, it’ll be useful, if you’re familiar with handling different categories, preferably within metal work, foam, wood, molded parts, consumer items, packaging or similar.

English is company language, so you’ll need full professional proficiency along with Mandarin, as you’ll be in daily contact with suppliers in Denmark and from Asia.

Other than that, we expect you to:

·       be comfortable with being in constant, constructive communication with our suppliers to ensure progression.

• have a pro-active workstyle and use your analytical skills to foresee challenges and problems in the supply chain.
• be structured and organised.
• be well-versed in the usage of IT-systems such as ERP and PLM (we use D365 and Windchill), as well as Excel and MS Outlook.

Experience with BI-Tools and JIRA are plusses.

YOUR COLLEAGUES
You’ll join a team of four colleagues with three different nationalities – all based at our office in Skanderborg.

Our workday is busy and challenging, but an active interest in and respect for different backgrounds, experiences and interests means that we get along and support each other well.

Your immediate manager will be our Procurement Manager.

WE OFFER
As our new colleague you’ll take on a highly needed support function in an international audio company based in the heart of the Jutlandic peninsula – a 20-minute drive south from Aarhus.

At Dynaudio you’ll work with skilled colleagues from all over the world representing craftmanship and expertise in a variety of different fields related to making loud speakers and running a business.

Other than that, we hope you’ll appreciate:

·      eating nice, nutritious (breakfast and or lunch) meals in our canteen.

·      picking and choosing to join a variety of staff social club events, and or engaging in laughs and storytelling and what-ever kind of wholesome fun that goes on between colleagues.

·      the chance to listen to the music you love on some truly amazing speakers (including getting the opportunity to buy them at a pleasing discount), and even get to see behind the scenes on how they’re made, tested and designed in-house at our production sites.

WANT TO SPEAK WITH A FUTURE DYNAUDIO COLLEAGUE?
Feel free to reach out to our HR Business Partner, Marc Wacker, via Linkedin or +45 5434 6890.