International Sourcing Manager Nordics (all genders)

About the Role: What’s in the Box

As an International Sourcing Manager, you will act as the bridge between product and procurement teams, managing communication between local and international stakeholders. Sitting within local/regional teams, you will own the end-to-end process from new ingredient requests through onboarding, ensuring efficient sourcing of new ingredients into your market to drive innovation and improve customer experience.

Working in collaboration with Category Managers, you will identify cross-market sourcing opportunities to onboard NID SKUs into the portfolio more efficiently. You will work closely with local Ingredient, Culinary, FSQA, and Supply Chain Operations (SCO) teams to facilitate onboarding while acting as gatekeeper for all requests, ensuring no unnecessary complexity is introduced into operations.

This role reports to the International Team Lead Sourcing, with a dotted line to the local Head of Culinary, and includes regular interaction with international stakeholders and peer Sourcing Managers across HelloFresh markets.

What You’ll Do: The Recipe

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Lead project management for new ingredient requests across Culinary, Product, and Procurement teams

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Own the workflow for new ingredient requests once handed over from Product Operations, acting as gatekeeper to ensure strict adherence to standardized processes, including progression or rejection decisions

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Align with the local NID/Ingredient Specialist to ensure sourcing tasks are completed on time and in line with the critical path

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Act as gatekeeper for all NID requests, ensuring only SKUs that pass Gate 2 (feasibility) progress to Culinary SKU testing

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Review all new ingredient requisition proposals in market for completeness before connecting with local suppliers or handing over to Category Managers for sourcing/tender (if multi-market)

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Manage stakeholder engagement and communication between local and international teams to ensure consistency in NID approach across markets

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Coordinate new developments with Category Managers, sensory testing, Culinary, FSQA, and other markets

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Facilitate speedy SKU onboarding while ensuring coordination of new SKU creation across markets, including reviewing existing alternatives in the global portfolio

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Support Category Managers in cost-saving initiatives through improved SKU catalog management and identifying opportunities for SKU consolidation/rationalization or sourcing from existing international catalogs

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Support SKU improvement initiatives with Culinary and Quality teams to optimize specifications or formulations for better ingredient performance

What You’ll Bring: The Ingredients

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Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong collaboration, and self-management with a team-oriented mindset

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Proficiency in English and ability to interact with business leaders and vendors at a senior level

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Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills with a focus on continuous process improvement

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Ability to lead and influence stakeholders, present ideas effectively, and facilitate discussions with multiple inputs

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Experience in change management, process improvement, and risk assessment within global and hybrid working environments

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Ability to create an environment that inspires data-driven, innovative solutions

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Strong relationship-building skills across local and international stakeholders

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Ability to leverage insights from evolving processes and continuously improve ways of working

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Proven ability to manage timelines and multiple stakeholder expectations while delivering consistent results

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Degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field preferred, with 3–5 years of experience in procurement and/or product/portfolio management

Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. There are many different ways of developing skills, and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What We Offer: The Toppings

• HelloFresh Discounts – Enjoy 65% off your HelloFresh Meal Box and 40% off Factor_ subscriptions.

• Learning and Development – Make the most of a dedicated Learning & Development budget and the HelloMint mentorship program.

• Receive 25 days of paid vacation per year, + 5 days of feriefridage. Paid leave also provided for your child’s first sick day.

• Parent Benefits – Benefit from a Parental Leave policy supporting your family needs.

• Compensation and Perks – Includes a 5% company-paid pension and insurance package.

• Health – Access to Spill online therapy, available within 24 hours of request.

• Daily Comforts – Office perks include drinks and snacks, subsidized catered lunches, and breakfast every Friday.

• Fitness and Well-being – Discounts at SATS gym, plus access to sports and exercise clubs.

Are You the Missing Ingredient?

Apply with your CV in English.

If we see a match, you’ll have a call with one of our recruiters to share more about what you can bring to the team. Are both sides still positive? Then we proceed to the assessment stage to assess key skills required for the job.

We will be conducting interviews on an ongoing basis and will close down the position once the successful candidate has been found.