Senior Sourcing Manager – General Purchasing, Services

Scania is now undergoing a transformation from being a supplier of trucks, buses and engines to a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions. Do you have the drive to secure Scania's future delivery, join us!

 

A lot of exciting things are happening within the company and Purchasing is growing.

Job Description

The main objective will be to source services and solutions according to the company’s needs at the best achievable Cost, Quality, Delivery and Sustainability while considering the latest available Technology. 

You will be part of aligning the company’s needs across multiple functions in order to cooperate and drive the tender processes. You will also lead supplier negotiations, present results in decision boards and conclude commercial agreements to create the best value for Scania. This is often in close cooperation with Traton and Volkswagen and active participation in the different internal stakeholder organizations is necessary to reach the best results and to make a difference.

We seek a Senior Sourcing Manager to join our team and to take on the strategically important category of Services for Scania. In this role you will be responsible to lead and further developing the category and continuously improving the current way of working cross-functionally with our internal stakeholders.

This job also gives a great opportunity to get in touch with new technologies and new business models while at the same time enabling initiatives for a lot of different improvement opportunities within the team and at Scania.

Your profile

We believe that you are passionate about the work as a purchaser and that you have several years of previous experience from it or from a related business area as well as a university degree. If you have experience from purchase of Services it is a strong merit.

We also appreciate if you:


• Have a true commercial drive along with strong negotiation skills
• Enjoys coaching and mentoring colleagues within the area
• Feel comfortable presenting business cases in a top management meeting
• Are a great teammate and have natural leadership skills
• Are comfortable studying agreements of different kinds
• Loves to think strategically and follow-through until result
• Are communicative, creative and solution-orientated

It would also be great if you like to work independently while having great social skills with the ability to develop and maintain a broad network of supplier contacts as well as interfaces within Scania and the Group.

For more information, please contact: 

Manager – IT & Services, Niklas Ahlsén +46 8 553 720 46

Manager – Services & Supplies, Karin Lindström +46 8 553 503 45

 

Application

Your application should include a covering letter and CV.

Please apply no later than 2022-01-30.

Selection will be done continuously. No interviews will be performed during weeks 52-02 due to the Christmas holidays.