Buyer – Indirect Material and Services

SKF Group Purchasing plays a vital role to the success of SKF by providing our businesses with a world-class global supplier base. We are a global community collaborating across borders on both a strategic and operational level. As a professional partner to SKF businesses, we participate throughout the complete value chain of sales, product development, sourcing, and aftermarket processes. We contribute to the bottom-line result of SKF and deliver value by using a category driven purchasing and a business-oriented approach. Our multifaceted expertise secures SKF with a top performing purchasing organization.


For the Swedish Purchasing Team for Operational Purchasing of Indirect Materials and Services (IDM&S) we are now looking for a




Buyer – Indirect Material and Services




As a member of this team you will manage local sourcing for several units (factories, head quarter etc), to ensure a smooth P2P for our internal stakeholder. We are a small team of 6 buyers and everybody's effort is essential.


Key responsibilities:
• Support all SKF sites in Sweden with excellent and smooth purchasing support.
• Ensure a strong stakeholder interaction, (involvement, communication, alignment)
• Participate in and develop, efficient and standardized P2P processes
• Negotiation and maintaining local contracts and agreements
• Manage day to day operational tasks
• Close collaboration and alignment with the global purchasing organization
• Participation in local as well as global strategic sourcing projects and implementation of results in the operational units in Sweden
• The purchasing categories in scope for this role is part of Facility Management scope but also other categories within Maintenance, repair and operations.


Your Profile:
We expect for you to have a couple of years experience in a purchasing role as well as relevant a university degree in purchasing, economics or similar. Fluency in English and Swedish is an absolute must.


To be successful in this role it is crucial that you take initiative on your own within the frame of your work role responsibilities. You can make a difference!


We expect you to be eager to meet and exceed goals and be able to work well in a demanding and high-paced environment. Key competencies in this role are:
• Structured and able to manage parallel activities with high speed
• Result oriented with a strong business focus and stakeholder involvement
• Capable of adjusting and negotiating legal agreements that suit daily purposes without exposing SKF to legal risks
• Good command of Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Experience in working with SAP and/or Ariba from earlier positions is a plus


We offer
This position gives you the opportunity to be part of the journey of becoming a World Class Purchasing organization. You are going to work in an organization with great goal-oriented environment where you can see clear results from your efforts.
You will be part of a dedicated and friendly team and you will have excellent career opportunities.


Additional information
The position holder will be located at SKF in Gothenburg


For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Patrik Schultzén, Recruitment Expert at SKF EMA, +46 31 337 12 70 or Patrik.Schultzen@skf.com.


Are you interested in this position?
If the answer is yes, and you meet the above requirements, please submit your application no later than 18th of November 2021.
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