Strategic Purchaser

Publiceringsdatum: 2024-08-26

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Your role

We are looking for a business-driven Strategic Purchaser that have experience of executing and delivering results and enjoys leading sourcing activities and interacting with stakeholders and suppliers. You will be responsible for executing a wide range of sourcing projects within the section Property & Logistics at Group Procurement. In your role you will also be responsible of subcategories, supplier relationship management and contracts mainly within the area Logistics.

The Group Procurement organization consists of 59 experienced colleagues, primarily of buyers and experts within areas such as Category Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Procure to Pay, Legal, Business Analysis, Process Method & Tool development and Business Solution Management. In our team, we have an atmosphere characterized by unpretentiousness; we help each other and share our knowledge with a solution-orientated approach.

The main tasks are:

• Perform and lead sourcing projects
• Lead collaboration and communication with cross functional teams
• Responsible of Supplier relationships
• Set, develop and execute sub category strategies
• Responsible of Supplier Governance and Contracts
• Deliver performance improvements, compliance and cost reduction
• Place purchase orders and enable efficient digital solutions within the category

Since 2021, we have started a Procurement excellence program that will run over the next coming years to develop Saab into a world leading Purchasing organization. Within Indirect Procurement we support all Business Areas in Sweden with their Procurement needs.

Your profile

Required skills:

• Relevant University degree, or equivalent job experience
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
• Swedish and English, verbal and written
• Excellent collaboration, analyse and communication skills
• Negotiation skills and manages contracts and relationships with suppliers autonomously.
• Business driven and independent

Desired skills:

• Experience from Procurement or Supply Chain
• Experience of leading commercial teams
• Experience from working with Logistics
• Skilled in Excel and analytics
• Interest in continues improvements and digitalization
• Interest in sustainability

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. You are welcome to send us your application in either Swedish or English.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

Group Procurement is a group function with a functional responsibility for procurement professionals globally and a business responsibility for indirect procurement. Our mission statement is: With expertise, drive and high business acumen, Procurement generates sustainable value, profitability and innovation. We do this through professional business relationships and teamwork.

Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between. ​

Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defence and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 22,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world. Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here