Job Title: Specialist, Indirect Category Procurement
Department: Procurement
Location: Pandora Production Vietnam (VSIP3, Binh Duong Province)
Reports To: Manager, Indirect Category Procurement
About Pandora
Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.
About Pandora Vietnam
Pandora's new jewellery crafting facility is located in the VietnamSingapore Industrial Park III (VSIP III), about 40 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. When fully scaled, the state-of-the-art facility will produce up to 60 million jewellery pieces annually and employ around 7,000 craftspeople. It is powered entirely by renewable energy and built to LEED Gold certification standards.
Main purpose of the role: Manage & perform sourcing requisition of Indirect Categories. Execute sourcing according to strategy provided by Indirect Procurement Manager. Support to deliver commercial improvement such as cost saving / cost avoidance / credit term improvement. Increase procurement skills & competencies through training, job rotation, project management.
Key accountabilities:
Sourcing & Supplier Management
- Perform sourcing & negotiation for Ad-hoc requisition.
- Support category strategies, tactic, process, spend, supplier performance and relationship under Indirect category.
- Collaborate effectively with relevant parties to ensure high adherences to standards of indirect materials and other.
- Lead supplier negotiation in term of commercial term & technical term (if need) to ensure the Pandora's requirement is.
- Minimize conflict of interest through challenging status quo, ensure engagement and alignment on strategy and tactical from key stakeholders including decision.
- Negotiate and create draft contract based on master contract template and consult with Legal in case of deviation from master template Legal supports Procurement team.
- Create and maintain supplier master data and participate in relevant governance forum as needed.
- Support supplier relationships and performance for Indirect Category.
- Support supplier assessment and collaborate effectively with all relevant stakeholders to ensure stringent standards.
Cost Management
- Negotiate competitive cost structure and credit term. Execute effective action to achieve budgetary goals.
Compliance & Governance
- Execute purchasing policies and processes are in place to meet business objectives and compliance requirements.
- Execute supplier assessment effectively (both supplier qualification and supplier performance evaluation) is applied and collaborate effectively with all relevant stakeholders to ensure stringent standards to aid and improve business performance.
- Create draft contract based on master contract template and consult with Legal in case of deviation from master template. Work effectively on contract coverage and its compliance.
Ethical & Sustainable Procurement
- Ensure responsible sourcing initiative and collaborate effectively with both external and internal stakeholders including Global Sustainability Board.
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholder to define and manage risk of project and also ensure high adherences to standard of procurement.
- Support supplier assessment and collaborate effectively with all relevant stakeholders to ensure stringent standards.
Financial Budget and Control
- Execute on departmental budget, objectives/KPIs and assess ongoing performance of direct reports.
Supply Resilience
- Execute an effective risk mitigation (for example multi-source, supply chain mapping and etc.) to safeguard against disruptions.
Sustainability
- Support Carbon emission team and drive suppliers on carbon emission engagement program to deliver company target commitment.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree Supply chain and / Business Administration/ and all related field
- Drive the solution to most complex business problems
- Possess the strategic perspective and create sustained results for Pandora (financial, non-financial)
- Support to deliver exceptional work
- Be self-motivated and hungry enough to work hard; willing to change
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; interact effectively within the organization
- Good at ERP systems (SAP or similar) and strong analytical skills for spend analysis and supplier performance tracking.
- English fluency is a must
