Logistics & Purchasing Coordinator for Grundfos Norway

Join the Grundfos Nordic Customer Care & Operations department – and get the chance to help shape the vision, processes and ways of working in a growing global organisation.

In this role, you will contribute to enabling growth in our Norwegian sales company and ensure that we balance operations with a long-term view that enables us to develop and optimise our processes and safeguard customer satisfaction.

What is the job about?

As a Logistics & Purchasing Coordinator you will work with both order handling and purchasing. You will get a coordinating role, where you will work across the organisation and be in daily contact with many different internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment across the business. This will include coordination, planning and execution as well follow up of sales orders and indirect sourcing deliveries and processes as well as customer follow up. You will report to Sales Operations & Logistics Manager, Liana Arutyunyan.

You will cooperate closely with Internal Sales, Service and Finance and as this role is part of customer service organization some amount of telephone conversations with customers is daily business.

Moreover, within order handling you will be responsible for:

• Register orders in SAP
• Follow up on deliveries
• Logistics, including contact with transport companies when necessary
• Credit note management
• Customer master data related tasks

Your tasks in purchasing will be:

• Manage supplier contracts – follow up, terms, invoices
• Participate in supplier selection and renegotiations
• Supplier registrations in Grundfos systems
• Purchase goods and services
• Purchase order follow ups
• Manage customer and product master data and maintain our contracts database in House of Control (Controll 5.0 platform)

”You will be part of a dynamic organisation and work in a context of a broader change agenda were you will not always know what your day will look like. So being resilient and able to thrive in an environment where you occasionally have to work without precedent will take you far,” Liana says.

What do you need to apply?

As a person you are structured and organised while at the same time being able to challenge status quo and seeing things in the bigger picture. Therefore, it is vital that you have a curious and proactive approach and an urge to develop and improve yourself and your surroundings.

Having the customer in mind, you are open minded, solution oriented and show accountability. You are a strong communicator with flair for negotiation and you understand how to talk to customers in a constructive manner. You work with many different stakeholders, you possess great networking skills, allowing you to build relationships both internally and externally.

While you can work independently, you also enjoy working in close collaboration with your colleagues. You are an energetic and ambitious person and you are eager to set your footprint on the journey ahead.

We imagine that you:

• Hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, preferably within supply chain, shipping, logistics or similar
• Have some years’ experience in supporting key business initiatives within logistics, distribution, supply chain or sales operation in a sales organization
• Have the ability to participate in work with processes or projects
• Can master MS Office and Outlook
• Full professional proficiency in English and one of the Scandinavian languages

Moreover, it will be an advantage if you have experience in negotiations as well knowledge of SAP and CRM-systems.

Additional information

If you have questions or want to know more about the position, please contact Sales Operations & Logistics Manager, Liana Arutyunyan on +47 94 53 44 10.

If this job sounds appealing to you, please send your resume and cover letter in English today and no later than the 14th of November 2019 by clicking on “Apply”. We expect interviews to be held the 20th and 21st of November 2019 in Oslo.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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