Operational Purchaser

We are looking for a business-driven Operational Purchaser to join our team within Property & Logistics at Group Procurement, supporting Saab Business Areas within Indirect material & services. You will be responsible for operational and tactical tasks and collaborate in a wide network within Saab and its Suppliers creating stronger business together.

Your role

You will be responsible for executing purchasing requests within a various range of categories such as Production Supplies, Office Supply and Production Equipment. Facilitate and engage in dialogue with internal stakeholders as well as the external supply base, to ensure terms are understood, accepted and implemented.

The main tasks are:

* Conduct purchase orders and enable efficient digital P2P solutions
* Ensure correct supplier onboarding and setups for supplier punch outs and catalogues
* Ensure the system content regarding products, services, information and that prices and delivery terms (Terms and conditions) are updated correctly
* Assist and work with reports and data analysis as needed
* Collaborate and communicate within cross functional teams
* Analyze supplier market and Saab demand
* Propose improvements in order to work more efficiently

Your profile

Required skills:

* High School degree or Higher Vocational Education Diploma in Procurement
(Kvalificerad Yrkesutbildning), or equivalent job experience
* Interest in continuous improvements and digitalization
* English, verbal and written
* Swedish, fluent
* Excellent collaboration and communication skills
* Business- and Performance driven

Desired skills:

* Experience from Procurement or Supply Chain
* Relevant Bachelor degree

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 18,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world. Read more about us here.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquarter in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is a part of the domestic defence capability of several nations.

Group Procurement is a group function with a functional responsibility for 500 procurement professionals globally and a business responsibility for indirect procurement. Our mission statement is: With expertise, drive and high business acumen, Procurement generates sustainable value, profitability and innovation. We do this through professional business relationships and teamwork.

During 2021, we have started a Procurement excellence program that will run over the next coming years to develop Saab into a world leading Purchasing organization. Within Indirect Procurement we support all Business Areas in Sweden with their Procurement needs. We handle a current total annual spend of ~6 billion SEK giving us a strong customer position in the market.

The Group Procurement organization consists of 44 experienced colleagues, primarily of buyers and experts within areas such as Category Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Procure to Pay, Legal, Business Analysis, Process Method & Tool development and Business Solution Management.

In our team, we have an atmosphere characterized by unpretentiousness; we help each other and share our knowledge with a solution-orientated approach. If you are interested in what benefits you can take part of as an employee at Saab in Sweden, you can read more about it here.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. Considering the upcoming holiday periods, you can expect feedback on your application after the summer.

You are welcome to send us your application in either Swedish or English.

Recruiting Manager: Anna Benzler Ringfoss +46 73 418 68 23, Procurement Director, Property & Logistics, Group Procurement

Saab is a company with a strong people-orientation. We offer a friendly work environment where we support and help each other to be at our best. Continuous learning, career & talent development and employee well-being are example of areas where we always put the strongest effort to offer great opportunities.