Buyer - Professional Services and Sales & Marketing

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 – Professional Services and Sales & Marketing




We believe you have the skills within Purchasing that are a pre-requisite for this position.
You should be eager to meet and exceed goals and be able to work well in a demanding and high-paced environment.


Categories in scope for this position is,
• Professional Services - Manage RFX process for consultants, drive sourcing projects and support stakeholders in R2P-process
• Sales & Marketing – Manage RFX process and support stakeholders in R2P-process


We are a small team of 6 buyers and everybody's effort is essential.
It is crucial that you take initiative on your own within the frame of your work role responsibilities. You can make a difference!


Key responsibilities:
• Support all SKF sites in Sweden with excellent and smooth purchasing support for categories in scope
• Ensure a strong stakeholder interaction, (involvement, communication, alignment)
• Participate in and develop, efficient and standardized P2P processes
• Negotiation and maintaining local contracts and agreements
• 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


Your Profile:
• Relevant university degree in purchasing, economics or similar is required
• Experience in purchasing role from earlier positions. You are capable of adjusting and negotiating legal agreements that suit daily purposes without exposing SKF to legal risks.
• Fluency in English and Swedish required,


We see it as beneficial if you also had experience in working with SAP and/or Ariba. We also prefer you to have a good understanding of the consultancy business.
You consider yourself to be service-minded, structured and able to manage parallel activities with high speed. Besides this, you´re also result oriented with a strong business focus and stakeholder involvement (incl senior management).


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
For questions regarding the recruitment process please contact Thea Stenfeldt, Recruitment Expert at Thea.Stendfeldt@skf.com.


Union contacts
Unionen – Jonny Hilbert +46 31 3372155
Akademikerföreningen - Anders Kempe +46 31 3373395
Ledarna – Angelica Lindström +46 31 3371842

To apply
If you are interested and meet the above requirements, please submit your application, including cover letter in English, no later than the 8th of July 2020