Sourcing Manager

At Sandvik Group IT, we’re now looking for a senior and innovative Sourcing Manager to join our sourcing team. We’re on an agile journey with exciting things in the pipeline – come join a fast-paced environment, where you’ll have a leading part in developing our overall sourcing capabilities. We make the shift!
Your mission
In this position, you have full responsibility for all Sourcing and Procurement related activities for one or several Product Areas where you’re the primary contact for the assigned areas.
Your responsibilities include:
Acting as advisory and hands-on support for specific product areas to develop sourcing strategies and sourcing plans, supporting business needs and objectives.
Executing on sourcing plans by driving the entire deal process, including establishing relevant type of commercial models, devise negotiation strategies – managing the RFx process from start to finish, and leading commercial and contractual negotiations.
Developing the right vendor portfolio for the product areas.
Building and maintaining vendor partnerships and collaborations.
Managing assigned contracts and vendors through their lifecycle, including vendor risk management.

The location for this role is either in Stockholm or Sandviken and we offer you the chance to work part of your time remotely.
Your profile
We’re looking for someone with extensive experience of IT sourcing in a decentralized organization. We value your previous work experience from international organizations, where you have worked with various sourcing and commercial models such as SaaS, managed services, outsourcing and projects. Beneficial to this position is a background within IT and Tech Sourcing and Procurement in areas related to digital workplace services and products, collaboration tools, telecom, and service desk. Working in a global setting as this one calls for excellent English skills, both in verbal and written form, and your understanding of Swedish is also good.
Your personality is characterized by being innovative, communicative, with advanced stakeholder management skills. You’re entrepreneurial and thrive in an agile and ever-changing setting, and by being detail oriented as well as open-minded, you bring energy to your team. Your curiosity, combined with your can-do attitude makes you the perfect fit for this role, and your strategic and business mindset are catalysts for growth in both the personal and business side of things.
Our culture
At Sandvik, we’re tech driven, innovative and entrepreneurial. We believe that success is a team effort so we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where people can be themselves and reach their full potential. So, we invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our differences. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us further.
Application
Send your application no later than October 31, 2023. Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/careers (Job ID: R0060101).
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:
Gunilla Nilson, recruiting manager, +46 (0)70 796 96 13
Union contacts – Sweden
Anders Rönnqvist, Unionen, +46 (0)26 26 30 10
Göran Norell, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)26 26 65 74
Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)26 26 19 84

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services at hrservices.nordic@sandvik.com.
Recruitment Specialist
Lotta Amnebjer Nordqvist
Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation and rock processing. In 2022 the Group had approximately 40,000 employees and revenues of about 112 billion SEK in about 150 countries within continuing operations.