Strategic Buyer to Bufab Sweden

We are looking for a Strategic Buyer/Lead Buyer to Bufab Sweden!

Bufab Sweden stands as the largest company within the Bufab-group with headquarter in Värnamo.

With 145 employees and offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Västerås and Växjö, Bufab Sweden reaches a turnover of 1.2 billion.

Bufab strives to be the Sustainable Industry Leader in 2026 and continue to develop a world class supplier base. The Lead Buyer shall contribute to ensure Bufab is recognized as a well-organized global player acting professional and with high requirements on sustainability, quality, service, and competitiveness in 2026, providing world class supplier base.

The sourcing organisation of Bufab are both global and regional, but mostly built on local and regional skills and resources.

Lead Buyer is a key position to reach Sustainable Leadership. The Lead Buyer is responsible for the development of the supplier base and shall secure reaching the overall Sourcing KPI's as well as the development and implementation of Group strategies. 

The role
- Develop existing suppliers.
- Find and develop new suppliers.
- Supplier Audits acc to our Bufab Best Practice process.
- Escalation claim handling.
- Analysis, manage and do parts segmentation as well as master data management of the suppliers, business analysis and reporting connected to the area.

Required Qualifications and competencies
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering or business Management.
- 2-5 years’ experience in an international sourcing organization or manufacturing company.
- Smart negotiation & process skills.
- Sound knowledge of manufacturing processes.
- Project management and change management skills.
- Familiar with ISO, IATF standards and requirement.
- Experience from manufacturing or multi-warehouse company is an advantage.
- Entrepreneurial, team player, “Solutionist”.
- Willingness to travel.
- Based in BUFAB location in Värnamo.
- Fluent in English, oral and written.

Contact and application
Does this sound interesting? Please apply via this link: https://bufab.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:682367/ 

We will follow the applications on an ongoing basis, latest day to apply is the 15th of December. If you have any questions about the recruitment, please contact Maria Götesson, Regional Sourcing Director, maria.gotesson@bufab.com

For us it is important that all competence on the labor market is taken to advantaged. We welcome every applicant and strive for diversity. 

The Bufab family is a group of strong entrepreneurs with big hearts, all about encouraging personal ideas to push the business forward. Therefore, we’re looking for curious, dedicated and motivated employees to join us! 

Today, the Bufab group has around 1800 employees and 50 wholly owned operational subsidiaries in 28 countries. Our employees are what makes our success. We offer freedom, responsibility, and development opportunities in an international environment and in a company characterized by entrepreneurs. At the same time, we maintain a lot of the company's family feeling that we have had since we were founded in 1977. Read more about us at www.bufab.com.