Strategic Purchaser within product development projects

About the role
The Purchasing organization has the responsibility to manage sourcing of parts for production and testing for the core business. Setting clear and challenging goals and following-up the execution of the strategies and activities to achieve the goals are vital parts of the success.

The Quality and Capacity group, within Purchasing is looking for a Project Manager Quality. The Project Manager for purchasing will oversee purchasing activities, such as supplier choices, tooling investments and quality assurance (APQP), in product development projects and other cross-functional projects as well as being responsible to insure that purchasing activities keep the required pace so that our most urgent quality issues are solved according to the set time frames.

Responsibilities:
- Organize and drive follow-up meetings with Purchasers, SQA, Product Development and Suppliers to investigate and solve problems
- Act as Project Manager Purchasing in product development and other cross functional projects
- Plan, control, and report purchasing activities in accordance with our decided processes
- Report deviations to the project plan and develop recovery plans with stakeholders
- Regularly share project status with Buyers and Supplier quality engineers
- Report and escalate project related issues to Purchasing Management
- Work in accordance with the existing tools and processes and contribute to further improvement of the process efficiency

Qualifications

• University degree in Business, Engineering or related field
• Experience from project management or from work at a purchasing/product development department
• Communicative—can cooperate and talk to colleagues at different levels in the organization
• Fluency—oral and written—in Swedish and English is required
• Basic technical knowledge, ability to understand drawings and engineering vocabulary
• Good understanding of project management and product development projects

We will attribute great importance to personal suitability.

Personal Skills

• o Excellent communication and presentation skills
• o Capacity to coach and lead in a challenging environment
• o Strong team player, self-starter with the ability to take initiative
• o Good networking capability
• o Business, financial & cost management mindset
• o Pro-active and good ability in priority management
• o Personal integrity
• o Willingness and ability to work in a global organization

 

Contact details
If you have questions about the assignment or the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact responsible recruiter:

Caroline Carlsson at 031-725 45 39

Welcome with your application!

Keywords
Strategisk inköpare, Strategic purchasing, Sourcing, Purchaser, Project Management, Project Manager, Product development, Engineering, Manufacturing industry, Global Group, Göteborg, Adecco