Operational Buyer

In this role, as an Operational buyer, you are responsible for purchasing materials, supplies and services for Memira in the Nordics. Working tasks includes negotiating deals with suppliers, researching item selections and ensuring materials and service are delivered to clinics in time.

Memira is a part of Bergman Clinics, which is a leading company in healthcare in the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia. We offer private care in aesthetic surgery and in vision correction under the brands Memira Eyecenter, Bey and Medical One.

We are now expanding our team in Technology & Logistics with this role. We are looking for you who have started out your career successfully and have a strong drive to develop. The Technology & Logistics team is based in the Memira Eyecenter office in Stockholm.

Work tasks

In this role you will support the purchasing function and other relevant departments and communicate any supply problems which may impact on business operations. You will also be an interface between suppliers and other relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities. The role also covers:

- Develop effective and accurate processes and tools for monitoring purchase orders
- Purchase goods, materials, components, or services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets
- Ensure service/repair requests are prioritized according to related business risk
- Monitor and advise on any issues which present risk or opportunity to the organisation
- Estimate future buying needs
- Provide analysis on costs, new and existing and review cost reduction activities
- Support the Procurement team on strategy to take the Memira cross-company procurement to the next level


In your daily work you report to the Supply Chain Manager and work in close cooperation with Clinics, suppliers and other internal key stake holders. You have a business focus in all your actions.

Who you are

You have experience from the tasks that the role covers. You have a strong drive and capacity and is used to lead your own production. You have commercial and financial awareness with a full understanding of how failure impacts the production. You can also build and maintain effective and productive relationships with colleagues, other stakeholders, and suppliers.

This role requires:

- Good communication, negotiation, interpersonal and influencing skills
- Analytical, numerically astute with strong demonstrated problem-solving abilities
- Able to manage time effectively, prioritize tasks and achieve set targets
- Keen attention to detail and accuracy


In addition, to be successful in this role, we believe that you have:

- A post-secondary education in purchasing or logistics
- Experience of administrative work with advantage in purchasing
- Good knowledge of Microsoft office and major ERP system
- Excellent skills in spoken and written English


For the right candidate, the role can present an opportunity to gain necessary experience to take on a more senior role as the procurement team and tasks associated changes.

A can do and willing to learn attitude is necessary and supersedes the requirements for experiences in all the areas mentioned above related to “work tasks” as well as “skills and attributes.” We do not necessary hire for exact skill sets, we hire for attitude.

Full time job, start as soon as possible.

For more information, click here: www.memira.se/jobb (http://www.memira.se/jobb)

Memira Eyecenter is the Nordic region´s leading company in refractive surgery and one of the leading players in the world in lens exchange operations. Our surgeons have a combined experience of over 400.000 eye operations. The Memira group has a turnover of approximately 600 million SEK and has around 300 employees and are located in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The vision for Memira Eyecenter is to be ‘the eyepartner for life´. Now you have the chance to join us and be a part of our journey. Read more on www.memira.se (http://www.memira.se).

Looking forward to seeing your application!