Purchasing Manager to Business Unit Scania Sverige AB

Scania is looking for a Purchasing Manager to Business Unit Scania Sverige AB. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, at one of the most successful transport companies in the world.

Commercial Operations within purchasing, was created to accelerate the integration of purchasing activities within Scania´s worldwide sales and service organisation. The department is continuously developing new ways of working and can offer a very challenging and entrepreneurial environment.

Scania Sverige AB is the distributor of Scania products and services in Sweden. The network consist of 4 captive dealers and 16 private dealers, which all together offers the customers 70 workshops and 2000 employees at their service.

Job Description

In this role you will have personnel responsibility for two purchasers and work as a purchaser yourself. Management activities are approximately 25% of your time. You will be part of Scania Sverige CFO management team as well as Customized Solutions extended management team. Your line manager will be European Regional Manager, Björn Helenius and a dotted line responsibility to the CFO of Scania Sverige AB.  

Together with your team members you are responsible for a spend of 110MEUR, about 60% being super structures. You will motivate, prioritize and point out the direction for your team to serve the internal customers and reach challenging targets on e.g. savings, supplier reduction, and purchasing contracts. Your work consists of negotiate commercial agreement, be responsible for supplier quality, service and cost development, “selling” purchasing within the organisation and develop the purchasing process.

Scania has about 40 Business Units worldwide, each with their own purchasing department who are all part of Scania’s global purchasing organisation. You will work especially close with the other Business Units in Europe and the purchasing organisation in Södertälje.

Your profile

We are looking for a skilled purchaser with managerial abilities and who has a long term view on this position. You need to be result oriented and self-driven, good at details and follow up and at the same time be creative and innovative. You enjoy varied tasks, have a commercial drive and also an interest to work with processes and improvement work.

To succeed in this role you need to work closely to your internal customers, understand their need and create trust to enable good cooperation to both satisfy their needs and support purchasing overall mission.

The person we are looking for is fluent in both written and spoken Swedish and English. Preferably you have a university degree and +3 years of commercial experience. Managerial experience is an advantage.

Position will be stationed in Lindvreten outside Stockholm. The work requires travelling within Europe.

If you think you fit this description and like the idea of joining a commercial and international environment with great opportunities for professional development, then we would love to hear from you!

For further information please contact

Maria Perhard , Purchasing Manager, Commercial Operations, +46 (0)8 553 803 99 (current regional manager

Björn Helenius, Purchasing Manager, Commercial Operations, +46 (0)8 553 893 28 (regional manager from September 1st, 2019)

Application

Your application should include a cover letter, CV and copies of any certificates. Apply via our website  HR InLine/Jobbsök på Scania no later than September 16th.