Commodity Lead – Cab Electronics

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

Are you ready to start your leadership journey together with us?

We now take it one step further and strengthen our Commodity management team with a Commodity Lead.

We expect that you have a strong interest to become the future leader and wants to develop these skills together with us. You dare to challenge our way of working, both in dialogue with us in the Management team as well as with your colleagues. 

We also expect that you are thrilled and eager to learn from your colleagues, continue to boosting our open climate and always have the drive to create the very best outcome for both our employees as well as for our leaders within Purchasing.

Main mission
You report to Director Purchasing Cab and Electronics and will be a direct support our managers directly in their operations as well as the department, in particular for strategic centralized initiatives run within the department where you will  get the chance to lead our work coordinating the work with our cross-functions, purchasers and suppliers.

You will be a part of our Management team of Commodity and you will also get the chance to help us in developing the department and the Commodity community.

Finally you will have an important role  strong focus on Product Cost Optimisation activities in order to meet the cost target of our vehicles. In your role you will be responsible at our department to lead our purchasers in the cost reduction program from our together with our cross-functions. Your team play will be an important asset for you assignment as you will work in cooperation with Scania’s development department, production units, purchasing quality departments.

Your profile
You’re looking for an environment to grow, learn about leadership, where you need to take own initiatives and have the maturity and ability to handle multiple open cases. We believe that you have a strong interest to develop your skills and abilities to become a good future leader. You are humble to the challenge and you have already some years of experience working in a multi-cultural environment with high ambitions. Probably the interest in knowing how people and teams develop will be your greatest advantage in advancing the role. You share a strong mindset of collaboration.

You need of course a strong purchasing experience with acknowledges good results, a commercial understanding with good knowledge on how business to business works. You like to have interactions in different levels with our cross functions and it is therefore important that you also are capable to manage communication in an international company.

Probably your colleagues already see you as a future leader!

Who we are
We are a group that consist four Commodity managers, one controller and me. All dedicated to what we do! Together we have a fantastic mix of backgrounds, experiences and competences and we work closely together as a team. The cooperation and the different perspectives helps us in solving problems and continuously develop with the challenges we have ahead of us.

We are encouraged by creating a modern, open workplace where people are involved, engaged and connected. We stand for an anti-silo culture where everyone is important and can contribute. This is how we believe we are the best purchasing organization in the industry!

Me as a manager
My name is Gustav Teng and I have a professional background both from market and purchasing. The last ten year I spent in purchasing where I have had  several manager positions. I like to work closely with the management team and our organisation. As a manager I am highly motivated to create dynamic and cooperative environment where I find diversity of our team to be the best of our assets. This lies in line very much with my own background and personality.

The combination of diversity and a continuous learning helps us to build the X-factor of our department capable of facing new challenges!

Questions?
Please contact Gustav Teng Director Purchasing Cab and Electronics, +46 8 553 522 31 or Ylva Ledin HR Business Partner, +46 8 553 80 653.

Application 
Your application should include a covering letter and CV. Apply no later than 2021-06-04. Selection will be done continuously.


Scania is a world-leading provider of transport solutions. Together with our partners and customers we are driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system. In 2020, we delivered 66,900 trucks, 5,200 buses as well as 11,000 industrial and marine power systems to our customers. Net sales totalled to over SEK 125 billion, of which over 20 percent were services-related. Founded in 1891, Scania now operates in more than 100 countries and employs some 50,000 people. Research and development are mainly concentrated in Sweden. Production takes place in Europe and Latin America with regional product centres in Africa, Asia and Eurasia. Scania is part of TRATON GROUP. For more information visit: www.scania.com.