Strategic Purchaser

Are you looking for the next step in your procurement career?

We are looking for a new team member with a high business acumen and experience of executing and deliver results and enjoys interacting with stakeholders, suppliers and colleagues.

Your role

As a Strategic Purchaser - Professional Services, you will drive a wide range of procurement activities within the Professional Services area. You will work in a dynamic and skilled team consisting of 13 procurement professionals with both operative and strategic purchasers.

Your area of responsibility will mainly be related to services connected to corporate functions such as HR and Communications. The scope is including all of Saab, but mainly focused on Sweden.

You will be expected to:

* Identify and develop business cases together with internal and external stakeholders to increase value and reduce cost for the organisation.
* Execute these business cases through strategic sourcing projects, supplier development and contract management.
* Develop the supplier base to meet the organisation's future requirements using the full potential of what the market has to offer.
* Govern and develop assigned categories and suppliers together with key stakeholders.

Your profile

Solutions focused, you possess a strong business acumen together with strategic awareness. When collaborating with stakeholders, you are confident with the ability to build relationships, influence and provide advice to key decision makers. You focus on achieving success in individual and team projects.

Required skills:

* Bachelor's degree in engineering, business administration or business law or similar build-up of skills and experience
* Minimum three years' experience of strategic procurement
* Assertive and a strong negotiator
* Ability to combine strategic thinking with operational execution
* Analytical, comfortable with analyzing and drawing conclusions from large sets of data
* Excellent communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written

Desired skills:

* Master's degree in Engineering or Business Administration or equivalent
* Experience of Indirect Procurement/Professional services, preferably within the segments HR and Communications.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 18,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world. Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations.

Group Procurement support all Business Areas and Group Functions in Sweden with their Procurement needs within Indrect material and services. We handle a current total annual spend of ~6 billion SEK giving us a strong customer postion at the market. Our mission is to create sustainable, efficient and profitable business, challenging ourselves and our suppliers, using high business acumen and a holistic view.

IT and Professional Services is one of two procurement departments within our organisation. We are located in several locations in Sweden, meaning there is a flexibly regarding location at any of our major Saab sites. We have an atmosphere characterized by unpretentiousness, we help each other and share our knowledge with a solution-oriented approach.

If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal - to help protect people.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. Observe that you can send us your application in either Swedish or English.

Saab is a company with a strong people-orientation. We offer a friendly work environment where we support and help each other to be at our best. Continuous learning, career & talent development and employee well-being are examples of areas where we always put the strongest effort to offer great opportunities.