Sourcing Manager Direct

• Are you ready for a unique opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing tech scaleups in Norway?

reMarkable creates hardware and software products that help people all over the world find focus. We launched our original reMarkable 1 paper tablet in 2017. Since then, we’ve sold more than 2 million devices, grown to over 450 employees, and transformed from a small startup to a fast-growing scale-up. Following the successful launch of the reMarkable 2, which was named one of TIME's top 100 inventions of 2020, our subscription service Connect in 2021, and the Type Folio in 2023, we've set ourselves exciting growth and product development goals for the coming years.

With a brand new campus at Majorstuen in Oslo, and exciting services in development, we need new colleagues to join our journey.

The team you will be joining

You will join the Partner Management team in the Sourcing and Procurement department at reMarkable. A dedicated team of professionals with the goal to craft a seamless global partner network, ensuring quality at every stage.

As Sourcing Manager, Direct your role in the team

• Your mission will be Contract Lifecycle Management with partners and contribute to sustainable and positive relationships while protecting reMarkable’s best interest. Your main responsibilities will include:
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  Creating sourcing strategies

  
  
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  Running RFIs and RFPs (implementing sourcing strategies)

  
  
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  Negotiating and closing contracts

  
  
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  Supplier Relationship Management

  
  
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  Establish and run management level meeting foras (facilitating between partner management and our management)

  
  
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  Contract Management Responsibilities such as conducting QBRs

  
  
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  Be an Escalation point for contracts within your scope

  
  
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  COGS monitoring and tracking throughout contract lifetime

  
  
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  Contribute to continuous improvements and process development within the partner management team

  
  
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  Support other team members with analysis and creation of deliverables to support decision making

  
  
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  This role will require business traveling between 10%-20% of workhours

  
  

To thrive in this role, we imagine the following:

• You want an opportunity to shape and develop your own role with ownership of your tasks. You are curious and have a growth mindset, seeing new challenges as an opportunity to develop yourself. You’re cooperative, comfortable with collaborating with partners from different cultures. Likely success factors:
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  2-6 years of experience from role with analytical content within, or related to supply chain

  
  
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  Higher education in relevant subject areas (e.g. business/engineering/logistics/industrial economics) or equivalent

  
  

You have hands-on experience with some of the following, and an openness to learn the rest:

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  Creating and executing sourcing strategies

  
  
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  Use analysis to illuminate complex problems and arrive at fact based recommendations

  
  
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  Relationship building, you can build trust with our global partners for successful longterm partnerships

  
  
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  Working with partner contracts and negotiations to find win-win scenarios for sustainable partnerships keeping in mind reMarkable’s interests

  
  
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  Clear communication and an awareness of the cultural factors influenced by communication

  
  
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  Applying business logic to assess financial implications of different scenarios

  
  
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  Having experience working in a large complex organization is a benefit