{"id":3523,"date":"2021-01-27T13:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ojelectronics.com\/career\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2021-01-27T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:02:33","slug":"based-in-sonderborg-but-working-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ojelectronics.com\/career\/based-in-sonderborg-but-working-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Based in S\u00f8nderborg, but working globally"},"content":{"rendered":"Michael Mortensen practically grew up at OJ Electronics. In 2020 he celebrated 25 years with the company, having occupied the role of strategic purchasing manager for the past decade. And with all the travelling, responsibilities, helping projects succeed and his relationships with colleagues, customers and suppliers all over the world, he hasn\u2019t ever considered working anywhere else.

Michael Mortensen started at OJ Electronics as a teenager with a broomstick. If you count his time with the S\u00f8nderborg-based company as starting from that day, he\u2019s actually celebrating his 30-year anniversary. He began his career as a 14-year-old floor sweeper and took up an apprenticeship with the company when he turned 19. Today, Michael is a 44-year-old Strategic Purchasing Manager who spends 60-80 days each year on business trips around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly exciting. I travel a lot, and that makes a great change from everyday life. I manage our efforts to make a huge global setup run smoothly at OJ, and that\u2019s enormously satisfying,\u201d Michael says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many of his trips are to the Eastern Europe and Asia, where OJ Electronics has electronics manufacturing services (EMS); suppliers who handle some of our manufacturing processes of the company\u2019s products and ship them directly to international customers in regions such as North America. It makes no sense for a thermostat to go on a trip around the world just because it needs to pass by S\u00f8nderborg, Michael explains, but when the company uses a supplier for everything and has not physically inspected the product itself, that makes things more challenging for the Strategic Purchasing Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally we\u2019d have the luxury of knowing what we\u2019re sending off to the customer, so it\u2019s crucial for us to be able to trust our partners around the world and to have a top-notch quality management system. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so important to be physically present and ensure that things are running smoothly. For example, I travel to Asia 4-5 times a year. The relationship-building work is incredibly important to us.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

When Michael Mortensen is not catching a plane or visiting our partners around the world, he spends his office hours in S\u00f8nderborg on the Strategic Purchasing department\u2019s more general responsibilities. Daily operations are located in another department. Michael and his colleagues are responsible for identifying new suppliers, making contracts and following up on them. Their jobs entail familiarising themselves with new components and technologies, and if goods need to be procured quickly, or if a supplier doesn\u2019t fulfil its contractual obligations, that\u2019s when Strategic Purchasing Department steps in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an incredibly important role in the company, since a large part of the overall price of the products is based on the price of the components. That\u2019s why we have to keep the whole supplier portfolio up to the mark and ensure they perform by delivering the correct quality, on time and at the right price. Otherwise, we find ourselves with an end-product that can\u2019t compete in the market,\u201d<\/i> says Michael, who revels in making things come together in the global context that OJ Electronics operates within. His friends and family have asked whether it might not be time to look for new opportunities, but Michael doesn\u2019t feel like he\u2019s been in the same place for many years, even though he\u2019s worked at OJ Electronics for the majority of his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cOJ has come so incredibly far from where it was when I started. There\u2019s so much happening all the time, and we\u2019re still growing. There are lots of exciting projects and new challenges all the time. New suppliers and new technology. Our department also has a lot of different responsibilities. At OJ, you don\u2019t get pigeonholed into one strictly delineated area of responsibility, and there\u2019s a lot of flexibility in our daily working life. There are some guidelines, but you have a lot of influence over how you organise your time,\u201d<\/i> Michael Mortensen explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy going to work every single morning. We work on really great tasks and projects. I always look forward to the next business trip, and my colleagues are amazing. So why on earth would I look for another job when I\u2019m happy here?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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