Sourcing Manager in Facility Management & Retail Operations - Gothenburg

We are now looking for a Sourcing Manager within Facility Management & Retail Operations to work at our client’s brand-new office in Gothenburg. Do you have a business or engineering degree, or other relevant education, and some experience of negotiations (commercial negotiations incl contractual terms)? Do you consider yourself to have strong communication and relationship building skills? In that case this might be an opportunity you can’t miss… Please keep reading!
About the position
Our client is a company active within the automotive industry and they want people to be able to go where they want, when they want. The idea is based on the beliefs that our generation demands flexible solutions that are uncomplicated and durable. In this position you will in the daily work report to category leads in Retail Operations and Lastmile + Central Service Point. The company applies a hybrid workplace model with a mix of office and home during the week. At least three days per week at the office is expected to build network and collaborate with team members and stakeholders. The HQ is a brand-new office located in Gothenburg.
Your daily tasks
The assignment will be varied with a mix of buyer and operational purchasing work, including everything from sourcing/RFQs, negotiations, contract review and negotiations to the operational tasks such as handling PR and PO and maintain vendor data in SAP.
Assignment:
Proactively build stakeholder network and secure good communication and planning.
Identify business needs and requirements and manage end-to-end purchasing activities, from RFQ-process to managing purchase requisition flow and execute purchase orders (SAP).
Review contracts and SOWs and perform negotiations (with support from legal when needed).
Maintain contracts and supplier data and other administration to maintain category.
Support finance in dialogue with suppliers that have invoice issues.
Contribute to developing way of working in the categories and purchasing function.

Your characteristics
We are looking for a doer who, based on experience can identify what needs to be done, and with respect to processes, find pragmatic solutions and does it, and align with the stakeholders. This is a fast-growing organization and it’s required that you are flexible and solution oriented as a person, and that you are open to take on different tasks as needed from time to time. It’s a dynamic environment which requires a sense of urgency. In return it’s very developing and there is lots of room for own initiatives and growth. You will be a part of the European central purchasing team, which is international, so fluent English is a must. Further on, great communications and stakeholder management skills are a must, as well as being a problem solver and team player.
Attributes
Strong relationship building skills
Service minded and capability to pay attention to the details that matter
Ability to oversee and create structure in a dynamic environment where a lot going on in parallel.
Flexibility and ability to handle several activities in parallel and prioritize effectively.

Requirements:
Business or engineering degree or other relevant education
At least 3 years of relevant experience, ideally of the categories in scope
Experience of negotiations (commercial negotiations incl contractual terms)
Comfortable with systems, data, and Excel as well as administration
Fluently in business English, written and spoken

Meritorious:
Experience from Spring Boot, Kafka, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ and Angular will make us thrilled
SAP (MM) experience is plus
Processes understanding and experience in process development is a plus

Contract type, start and end dates
Full-time consulting assignment until 2022-07-30, with possible extension. Start 2022-04-30, or as soon as possible.
Application
Apply for this vacancy on our website. All the information about the assignment and the workplace that we may have deliberately omitted in the advertisement, will be given to you in a first contact with responsible recruiter. We recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible, since interviews will be held continuously. Responsible recruiter for this position is Jennifer Walder, who can be reached by email jennifer.walder@perido.se or phone 070-467 95 72.
If you have any questions, you are also welcomed to contact us at fraga@perido.se and one of our Recruitment Communicators will answer you as soon as possible. Please state the reference number 33128 in the subject line.
About Perido
Perido is a successful consultant and recruitment company, active within the civil service sector. The company has grown consistently since the start in 2003. Our vision is that everyone should thrive and feel resolute at work, this includes our co-workers and consultants. Through questioners that cover well-being we uphold high scores of contentment among our employees, both in-house co-workers and consultants year after year. This is something that we continue striving towards in everything we do. Today, Perido consists of 50 in-house co-workers and over 800 consultants working all over the country. More vacancies can be found on our website; www.perido.se/lediga-jobb/
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