Regional Category Manager - Europe

Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions is now looking for a collaborative Regional Category Manager to join our Strategic Supply Chain Development team – we welcome you to an expansive environment where you get opportunity to meet people from different parts of the world!

About your job
In this position, you work with other procurement functions within Sandvik in Europe and Africa, where you’re strategically responsible for our category “Wear Protection & Screening Media”. Additionally, you’re also accountable for other categories within Screening Solutions in Europe.
In more detail, your mission includes being an instrumental part of Sandvik’s overall business performance by identifying business needs and ensuring supplier contribution. You identify, lead and manage sourcing projects as well as ensure supplier compliance by negotiating and signing contracts. You continuously establish solid relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers in order to ensure cross-functional alignments. You monitor and follow-up work on supplier related KPI’s as well as lead and manage categories teams across different functions.
You’re preferably based at our site in Svedala, Sweden, and some travel to our suppliers and internal stakeholders occurs.

About you
We’re looking for someone with a relevant degree and a few years' experience in a Global Category Purchaser role or similar position, previous involvement in an industry like ours is beneficial. Involvement in a Purchaser role within steel or elastics is also advantageous. You have solid skills in the MS Office suite, as well as fluency in both written and verbal English.
We put great emphasis on your personality! You have excellent interpersonal skills and know how to connect and collaborate, but also negotiate with internal and external parties. You’re able to balance an analytical as well as a problem-solving mindset together with a communicative and supportive approach.

Our Sandvik culture
Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering group, rapidly developing into new, digital offerings. We believe in a collaborative and inclusive culture, where innovations are part of everyday life. For us, it’s clear that our diversities form a solid foundation for achieving great results. Learn more by visiting our website, LinkedIn or Facebook.

Application
We have an ongoing process in this recruitment and ask you to send your application as soon as possible and no later than March 1, 2023. Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career (Job ID: R0050508).
As we aim for a fair recruitment process, we utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. When you apply for this job, you will therefore receive an invitation via email to a personality and logic ability test. Feedback comes immediately after the test has been completed and the selection process begins after the application deadline.

Contact information
For further information about this position, please contact:
Peter Viklund, Strategic Supply Chain Manager, +46 (0)40 409 151

Union contacts – Sweden
Mårten Lindberg, Unionen, +46 (0)40 409 240
Riccardo Repetto, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)40 409 394
Michael Wicktor-Ohlsson, Ledarna, +46 (0)40 409 025

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.

Recruitment Specialist
Ulrika Gruffman
Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a leading supplier of equipment, tools, parts, service and solutions for processing rock and minerals in the mining and infrastructure industries. Application areas include crushing and screening, breaking and demolition. In 2022, sales were approximately 9.6 billion SEK with about 2,900 employees.