Buyer at Scania Purchasing – Commercial Operations

Scania is now undergoing a transformation from being a supplier of trucks, buses and engines to a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions.

Would you like being part of our dynamic and entrepreneurial work environment? We proudly strive to impact the result of Scania’s long term business and profitability – by challenging the what, how and when of our business in order to deliver lead time reductions, savings and value creation in a sustainable way. If you are excited to join us in this – We would like to welcome you to our team.

You

You appreciate working in a dynamic, team-work oriented way and are engaged to making a difference. You like to learn new things and want to see the opportunity in any situation with sharp suppliers and a global network of demanding internal customers. Together with your colleagues at all of Scania you take ownership of the right solution for the right situation, as we are developing and challenging our way of working to ensure the best overall result. We appreciate that you hold a degree in engineering, business administration or similar meriting experience, with a desire to learn on the job and utilize your curiosity. Previous experience of sourcing, purchasing processes or project management is meriting.

Our team

What we do: We are responsible for the global suppliers utilised by our Business Units and workshops throughout the Scania world. Areas we work in are for example real estate investments and facility management, HR, marketing, IS/IT, logistics, workshop equipment and truck superstructure. The work involves setting segment strategies, negotiations, bundling volumes, standardizing between different countries, finding synergise between Scania product and supplier product and at the same time improve service to our customers.

Who we are: We are 10 individuals working in a variety of segments with different challenges, but always helping each other to reach the overall results together. We look forward to learn new things from you and share our experience in return.

The role

As a Buyer in our team you will be working together with several of our experienced sourcing managers and in different segments depending on ongoing projects. You will also be a part of our sustainability work, improvement work and maintenance of our communication channels. To be happy in this role it would help you to be structured, communicative and attentive to details. This because you will be in contact with many people and sometimes discussing requirements and consequences. In this role English will be your main working language.

Your manager

My name is Anna and I am driven by Scania’s long term mission and focus on ensuring that we all are working in the same direction and in a respectful way. Results are important to me as well as the methodology used to reach our targets, and that we always act in accordance with our core values at Scania. I believe that in order to succeed you must feel that you are in the right position and choose to impact your day.

Our culture

Scania’s culture is characterised by openness, diversity and respect for the individual. As our people is our most important resource, we invest in employee training and utilize the knowledge of our global work environment and personnel perspectives. We will give you the opportunity to develop your skills so you can grow with us, if you are ready to take on this journey.

Further information

For questions please contact recruiting manager, Anna Falkenius – anna.falkenius@scania.com

Application

Your application shall contain a CV, cover letter and relevant certificates. We will evaluate candidates continuously. Please apply no later than 5th of May 2021.