Title: Manager, Speciality Chemicals Sourcing

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemistry for water intensive industries. For more than 100 years, our chemistry has advanced human progress and quality of life. We call it chemistry with a purpose, better every day. At Kemira, we foster a collaborative and inclusive work culture that empowers our employees to thrive and make a difference. Learn more about Kemira at www.kemira.com/careers.

We are now looking for a Sourcing Manager to join our Direct Sourcing EMEA team!

In this role, you will drive the development and implementation of sourcing strategies for raw materials critical to Kemira’s strategic sourcing lines. This position is essential for ensuring cost competitiveness, service performance, supply security, and risk mitigation across our product lines. The position is based at our headquarters in Helsinki.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Developing and implementing sourcing strategies and concrete plans that align with business objectives and deliver value for the organization.
Building and maintaining a sustainable and reliable supplier base for assigned categories, lead the evaluation, selection, and development of strategic and key suppliers to drive performance.
Establishing, managing and developing solid relationships with internal stakeholders and drive business alignment.
Driving impact as part of a dynamic and agile sourcing team, contributing strategic value across product lines.
Leading cost optimization initiatives, supplier selection, contract negotiating and market benchmarking. Taking responsibility for an annual spend of over 25 million euros, ensuring effective cost management and supplier performance.

What you’ll bring to the team:

A Master’s degree in Business, Chemistry, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 5-7 years of relevant experience in a commercial environment within multi-national global chemical companies.
A proven track record of delivering year-over-year commercial value improvements, such as cost savings.
Demonstrated ability to drive change and secure buy-in and commitment from both internal and external stakeholders.
Expertise in developing and executing strategic sourcing strategies that align with business goals.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify critical issues and develop effective methodologies for collecting and analyzing data.
A natural ease in working in multinational environments, both as part of a team and independently.
Exceptional interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence and persuade, build strong relationships, and make sound decisions under pressure while constructively challenging the status quo.
Ability to finalize difficult negotiations into solid contracts.
Readiness to travel internationally.

What you can expect from us:

A great opportunity to work in a global role with close collaboration with multiple functions and departments. In this role you can make an impact on the future of seamless operations supported by modern tools and data management practices globally in very concrete manner.
Challenging, interesting and varied tasks that will allow you to expand your expertise and grow professionally.
Flexibility to organize your work between office and remote, in a hybrid work culture.

Ready to creat better every day? Join Kemira!
For more information please contact Eero Somersalmi, Sr Sourcing Manager, Specialty Chemicals by phone +358 40 358 5019 or by email eero.somersalmi@kemira.com

Best available: Thursday 10th April 14:00-15:00 EET and Tuesday 15th April 14:00-15:00 EET.

Please apply with CV and cover letter no later than April 27th, 2025 at kemira.com/careers

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions for water-intensive industries. Our customers include industrial and municipal water treatment operators, and pulp & paper industry among others. We provide the best-suited products and services to improve our customers’ product quality, process, and resource efficiency. Our focus is on water treatment, renewable solutions, and digital services. In 2023, Kemira had annual revenue of around EUR 3.4 billion and around 5,000 employees. Kemira shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. For more information, please visit our web site www.kemira.com/careers and LinkedIn.