Tactical Buyer for Indirect Purchasing

Are you the business person who will ensure that Sandvik exploits supplier market opportunities in the best possible way? This is your opportunity to develop yourself and to contribute to the development of the new organization within indirect purchasing.

The Indirect Purchasing organization is responsible for all interaction with the supplier market. We manage the supplier efforts to deliver the "right quality, on time and at the lowest total cost" on all products and services purchased for Sandvik. We have thousands of suppliers that are eager to deliver their skills and innovations to Sandvik to make Sandvik even more competitive. The purchasers' role, together with the whole Indirect Purchasing organization, is to ensure that Sandvik does exploit this supplier market in the best possible way, with an attitude that we "like doing business".

We are now looking for a Tactical Buyer for Region East, Sweden to be located in Gimo.

Key performance areas
As Tactical Buyer your primary focus will be on categories within Facility Management and Professional Services. The position is a role delivering value through analytical and commercial focus in strategic sourcing and procurement and you will be responsible for the supply from external suppliers in close collaboration with the Facility Management organizations as your main stakeholder.

Your main responsibilities also include:
- Local, Site-specific supplier agreements
- Competitiveness and cost development of the products and services purchased
- Generating RFQs and quotes and performing cost and price analysis
- One-time buy negotiation and agreements
- Acting as a supplier manager and being accountable for the relationship and the performance of suppliers for the sites in question
- Ensuring the implementation of local, national, regional and global supplier agreements
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders and purchasing strategically
- On-going communication and change management
- Local spend under management and contract compliance
- Operational purchasing
- Categorization of suppliers

Your profile
We are looking for someone with a degree in economics or engineering and/or two to three years' experience from purchasing and sourcing preferable within Facility Management and Professional Services. Good business orientation and skills in Excel and purchasing systems are prerequisites. Work experience with a larger international industrial company is advantageous.

You have good communication skills and knowledge of Swedish and English, both written and verbal. Furthermore, we expect that you have strong interpersonal skills. You have the ability to sell new ideas, both internally and externally.

Contact information
For further information about this position, please contact:
Johan Norén, recruiting manager, +46 (0)173 850 36
Helena Sidenvall, HR Advisor, +46 (0)8 456 14 23

Union contacts
Karin Wallblom, Unionen, +46 (0)26 261 012
Patrik Hertel, Sveriges Ingenjörer, +46 (0)26 265 647

Send your application no later than July 26, 2013. Read more about Sandvik and apply at www.sandvik.com/career, Job ID: 322931.

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HRdirect, +46 (0)20 261 444.

Recruiter
Irene Sveen