Operational Purchaser in Västerås

About the company

We are now looking for an Operational Purchaser to join a skilled and dedicated SCM team in Vasteras!

As an Operational Purchaser you will play a vital role to secure material availability and improve performance from our global supplier base to our factory in Västerås.



Your role

Lead the daily cooperation, relation building & material follow up with suppliers.

Track material deliveries from suppliers to ensure material availability and identify, manage and prevent short- and long-term shortages.

Communicate closely with production planning and sales to align material availability with production and customer demand.

Work with supplier base and category team to secure capacity and flexibility to meet forecasted market and production demand.

Monitor supplier performance & KPIs. Collaborate with suppliers and category team to obtain the best possible performance in terms of supplier on time delivery, lead time, and flexibility.

Develop and lead action plans together with supplier and category team to recover and improve supplier performance and material availability.

Manage and develop inventory strategies to optimize balance between material availability, flexibility and inventory turnover.

Your qualifications

Work experience in procurement / supply chain / material planning or related fields. Preferably from manufacturing industry

Degree in Engineering, Economics, logistics or equivalent work experience

You are a driven person with strong analytical skills and a solution-oriented approach to solving problems and delivering to target.

Team player with collaborative skills and ready to work in an international business environment

Good communication and presentation skills. Fluent in English (Swedish is an advantage).

Proficiency with MS Office and Excel. Experience in SAP MM Module is a strong advantage.

Assignment is open for extension pending on performance and organizational need.

Start-date: ASAP

About Clevry

For over 30 years we have been the change maker for a more soft skills driven work-life within talent acquisition, assessments and advisory. We operate globally with customers, consultants and candidates from North America to Singapore with headquarters in Brighton, Stockholm and Helsinki. At Clevry we have over 150 soft skills certified recruiters, business psychologists and experts at your service.

The process

Clevry thinks your soft skills are as important as your hard skills. Do you want to know more about your soft skills and how to optimize them?

As you apply for this position you have the possibility to answer a questionnaire from us about your soft skills. The questionnaire takes approximately 10 minutes to fill out and generates a feedback report (in Swedish) that highlights your soft skills. This report can be used for both personal and professional purposes.

Both questionnaire and feedback report are sent to your e-mail inbox.

We screen candidates continuously and the position could be filled prior to last application date. If you have any questions regarding this position or this recruitment process, do not hesitate to contact us at julia.revland@clevry.com. Does this role sound like a good match? Please apply today.

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