Junior International Sourcing Manager Nordics (all genders)

What’s in the Box

As a Junior 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. This role is offered as a 1-year contract with the potential for extension.

What You’ll Do: The Recipe

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

• 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

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

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

• 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)

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

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

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

• 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