Project Sourcing Manager to Procurement Distribution Sweden

Company Description
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

Business Unit Distribution Sweden operates the largest electricity distribution network in Sweden. We connect new network customers and also maintain and invest in our network assets to give our customers a high quality supply 24/7. In addition to this, we measure and report our customer's electricity consumption and generation. We are an efficient electricity distributor with quality of supply exceeding stakeholders’ expectations, and an enabler of sustainable energy.
Job Description
Do you want to be an enabler of renewable energy transition through electrification?
We are now looking for a Project Sourcing Manager to join our team of +15 procurement professionals.
The team is functionally divided into a strategic team of Category Managers and SRM specialist, a tactical team of +7 Sourcing Managers tendering projects and making call-offs under existing framework agreements.
Jointly we support Vattenfall Distribution in fulfilling their targets for both CAPEX and OPEX, and thereby enabling climate transition through electrification of industries and households.

The opportunity
As Project Sourcing Manager you will be part of Vattenfall Staff Function Procurement and provide support to the Business Unit Distribution Sweden. In this role the emphasis will be on performing tenders for construction for regional- and local network projects such as large substation projects and large OH-line projects.

Key responsibilities includes:
Being the direct interface to Distribution Sweden demand owners and stakeholders, specifically Program Managers, Project Managers in asset investment function related to topics pertaining to procurement of construction projects
Engage with stakeholders according to above to establish transparency with sufficient planning horizon for fulfillment of procurement of construction projects
Coordinate and drive tender processes and relevant parts of the same scope of supply specifications, technical tender specifications, administrative tender specifications, tender administration, supplier communication, tender evaluation, tender clarification and supplier negotiation, contract formation
Align with colleagues in teams of other Project Sourcing Managers to ensure existing processes and tools, best practices in project procurement are applied, and that synergies are exploited
Support Project Managers in setting up and performing a supplier tender process using established sourcing tools to successfully fulfil asset investment demand
Alignment with Category Managers of related categories when applicable

Qualifications
To be successful in this role we believe you are passionate about building effective relationships with cross-functional teams, a strong doer and a hands-on person who grabs issues, addresses them, and gets them solved. In addition to this you are passionate about setting up something new, building new processes, strengthening processes and creating best-in-practice and effective processes for tendering of construction projects and contractors.

Qualifications
Relevant academic education, preferably B.Sc. Engineering, M.Sc. Engineering, or equivalent
5-10 years of relevant working experience as Project Sourcing Manager for project procurement in the energy, utilities or infrastructure industry
Knowledge of different construction general terms and conditions like AB/ABT/FIDIC
Experience with supplier tender management including tender administration, supplier communication, clarification of bids, negotiation, contract formation etc
Experience of tender design and negotiation management of complex construction projects
Professional working proficiency in both Swedish and English


Optional experiences and skills
Knowledge of EU tender law (LUF in Sweden)
Experience from sourcing tools like e-Avrop or Mercell TendSign
Knowledge of the energy business, understanding of the business regulation and boundary conditions of a regulated DSO


Our offer
In addition to helping you shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. With our career and development model, we want to create clarity in which opportunities you have to develop in the direction you want. It is important that the whole life works and therefore we are keen that our employees experience a good balance between work and leisure. We are convinced that diversity and inclusion lead to innovation, improved business results and increased engagement, and we strive to represent diversity among our customers and the society in which we operate.
Additional Information
Diversity and inclusion – in everything we do. At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company. We strive to be good role models regarding diversity. Read more on how we work with diversity and inclusion here: https://corporate.vattenfall.com/careers/working-at-vattenfall/diversity/

Location: Stockholm (Solna), Trollhättan or Luleå. Other locations in Sweden where Vattenfall has an office can be discussed.

We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter no later than the 27th of August 2023. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. Due to vacation period applications will be handled after the last application date.

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Hiring Manager Eric Nilsson, eric.nilsson@vattenfall.com

Trade union representatives in Sweden are Rolf Ohlsson (Akademikerna),
Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Juha Siipilehto (SEKO), Jens Morell (Unionen).
To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.