Head of Sourcing & Supply

Saab is a fantastic company to grow and develop in! Since our colleague moves on to new challenges within the company, we are hiring to Saabs Business Area Kockums. Are you looking for the next step in your procurement career, have a solid successful background within the profession and are ready to take on a new challenge, the important role as Head of Sourcing and Supply might be your next smart move!


Your role

As Head of Sourcing & Supply, you lead and develop your unit in all aspects of procurement. You will manage a team of approximately 70 procurement professionals including six subordinate managers. Included in your responsibilities are all kind of products / direct related procurement including warehouse management. Indirect categories such as consultants, IS/IT, facilities, travel, etc. are handled by Group Procurement. You will belong to a larger team consisting of skilled colleagues within design, production and purchasing - all with the same mission to streamline a common whole between our departments. You also participate in Saab's Procurement Council consisting of all heads of procurement at Saab's business areas. The council is the governance body for the procurement function.


Main responsibilities:
You will be accountable for strengthening Saab Kockums Procurement capabilities, such as:

* Identify and develop business cases together with internal and external stakeholders to increase value and reduce cost for the Business Area.
* Support the Business Area during various sales campaigns by utilizing the strength from our strategic suppliers and supply chain.
* Develop the supplier base to meet the organization's future requirements using the full potential of what the market has to offer.
* Continuously develop and improve processes, methods and tools to sure an reliable and efficient sourcing and supply operation.

You report to COO and will work from our centrally and coastal office in Malmö. Having staff on two sites, the role includes frequent travels between Malmö and Karlskrona. Travel abroad might also occur.

Would you like to know more about the Saab-life and the benefits of joining us? Read our People Philosophy.

Your profile

You possess a strong business acumen together with strategic awareness. When collaborating with stakeholders, you are confident with the ability to build relationships, influence and provide advice to key decision makers.
Your leadership skills are proven and you are able to work independently, setting your own demanding objectives and translating those into strategic plans with a medium- to long-term view. You focus on achieving success in individual and team projects. Desirable, you also possess a keen interest to develop ways of working using various tools including digitalization. Negotiating and contract skills will be a key to succeed in this role.


Required skills:

* Proven successful work experience from above mentioned tasks.
* Several years of leaderships roles for larger teams in larger organizations
* Bachelor's degree in engineering, business administration or business law or similar build-up of skills and experience.
* Several years experience of strategic procurement
* Several years experience in a procurement management position.
* Excellent communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written


Desired skills:

* Master's degree in Engineering or Business Administration.
* Extensive experience from strategic procurement or experience from sourcing categories relevant to this position.

This position requires that you will be approved in a security screening in accordance with the Swedish Protective Security Act.

What you will be a part of

You report to COO, Ulf Björkman. With several years at Saab he is a manager with solid experience and ability to support you when needed. Although new at BA Kockums, he is eager and excited to get his team up and running and he look forward to welcoming you to the team, so you together can strive to meet our goals and reach success. With us you will collaborate with experienced engineers and professionals in an environment that fosters career development and personal growth. We offer a highly interesting role where you will get big responsibility and mandate.

We know diversity makes us better! As we work for an even gender distribution, we are happy to see female applicants for this position. Sometimes you have to work hard and put in an extra gear, but at Saab we also promote work life balance! If you are interested in what benefits you can take part of as an employee at Saab in Sweden, you can read more about them here.

Last application date is 10th of January, however kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. Your application may be in Swedish or English.

Questions about the job? Don´t hesitate to contact;
Ulf Björkman, recruiting manager +46 734 37 90 25 or
Charlotta Lundblad, HR Specialist Recruitment +46 734 34 12 74.

If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal - to help protect people.