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Market Area Procurement Lead, North America- Kalmar Solutions (Location: Ottawa, KS)

Make sure to read the full description below, and please apply immediately if you are confident you meet all the requirements.

At Kalmar, we are moving goods in critical supply chains around the world. As the forerunner in sustainable material handling equipment and services, we set the industry benchmark for a zero-emission future. We are driven by teamwork, innovation, and taking ownership to deliver results. With our global reach and local expertise, our success starts with a strong focus on the customer, ensuring their needs guide our daily work. We are dedicated to respecting others and fostering an inclusive culture where all voices are heard, empowering us to succeed together. With us, your work has an impact. Your work moves the world!

Join us and take your career to the next level

Kalmar Solutions LLC is looking for a driven Market Area Procurement Lead for North America to join our Ottawa team. In this role, you will lead the development and execution of sourcing activities across all indirect categories within the regional organization, including Front Line Units (FLUs) and our manufacturing plant. You will collaborate with global category and country procurement organizations, lead savings projects, ensure supplier preferencing, and drive sustainable compliance improvements aligned with local and regional needs

Compensation Information:

• Base Salary: $100k - $140k
• Eligible for Annual Bonus
• Eligible for Annual Salary Review & Merit Increase

What are your key responsibilities:

To succeed, you will develop and foster a culture of collaboration, business partnering, results-oriented performance, and continuous improvement.

• Cost-Saving Initiatives: Lead cost-saving initiatives by identifying opportunities for RFQs, process optimization, supplier renegotiation, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) initiatives.

• Contract Negotiation & Compliance: Lead contract negotiations for procurement projects and contracts, ensuring compliance with legal and commercial terms, as well as Kalmar internal policies and local legal requirements.

• Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with preferred suppliers, ensuring high levels of collaboration, mutual benefit, supplier consolidation, tail spend reduction, and key supplier development.

• Process Improvement & Innovation: Identify inefficiencies in local procurement processes and drive improvements in the source-to-pay process, including requisitioning, purchasing, invoicing, and payment to enhance efficiency and PO compliance.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Facilitate communication between business functions and central category management teams, working closely with finance, operations, and other relevant departments to align procurement activities with business needs.

• Performance Reporting: Provide regular reporting to country directors and controllers on procurement performance, developing dashboards to track sourcing performance against targets for cost, quality, and delivery.

What we offer you:

“Green business is good business – it's not just a slogan; we're investing in fossil-free steel and real change.”

• Rewards that truly count: We offer meaningful development opportunities through varied assignments, fair and gender-neutral pay, and flexible working conditions — all within a culture that values your growth and celebrates success.

• Competitive Benefits: Medical, Dental and Vision coverage are effective day one of employment; flexible spending account, company paid Short- and Long-term disability coverage; company paid life insurance policy (2X's annual salary up to $200k); options for additional life insurance coverage for employee, spouse and dependents at affordable rates; safe harbour 401K plan with company match of 6% (no vesting)

• Safety that moves us forward: Beyond physical safety, you'll benefit from the stability of a long-standing company established in the 1940s, offering strong job security and a reliable foundation for your career where you are empowered to speak and be heard.

• Purpose that drives change: You'll contribute to solutions that transform global trade, creating environmental and operational innovations. You'll be in the driver's seat of ideas, developing digital technologies that set industry standards and position us as the forerunner.

• People who move together: You'll collaborate with a global team, build strong relationships, solve challenges, celebrate wins, and connect with colleagues and clients in an open, sustainable culture

Become part of our global network of 5,200 professionals across 120+ countries, where your work drives innovation, sustainability, and meaningful impact around the world.

What you bring to the role:

• Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, or Engineering.
• Experience: At least 5 years of experience in Procurement and Strategic Sourcing, featuring proven track records in managing complex sourcing projects, process improvement activities, and executing transformational change within a large, matrix-structured multinational company.
• Technical Expertise: Understanding of TCO with practical deployment in procurement areas, basic financial acumen, legal awareness, and experience with contract negotiations and business plan development.
• Influencing & Negotiation: Strong negotiation, influencing, and relationship-building skills, with successful collaboration with key stakeholders at the executive level.
• Analytical Problem-Solving: The ability to gather relevant information systematically, grasp complexities, cope with ambiguity, and manage multiple projects while remaining focused on key deliverables.
• Safety Commitment: Strong awareness and adherence to safety protocols to ensure a secure work environment for yourself and your colleagues

Ready to elevate your career? Apply today!

We encourage you to submit your resume as soon as possible. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, and the position will be filled as soon as the most suitable candidate is identified.

Please note that we do not accept referrals through our job advertisements from external agencies.

For more information about this role, contact Brandy Besedich,CDR- Talent Acquisition Partner via email

About Kalmar

Kalmar (Nasdaq Helsinki: KALMAR) is moving goods in critical supply chains around the world, with the vision to be the forerunner in sustainable material handling equipment and services. The company offers a wide range of industry shaping heavy material handling equipment and services to ports and terminals, distribution centers, manufacturing and heavy logistics. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Kalmar operates globally in over 120 countries and employs approximately 5,200 people. xywuqvp In 2024, the company's sales totaled approximately EUR 1.7 billion.