Category Buyer

Born out of the belief that solar is the most powerful solution to fixing the planet’s problems it has been our goal to make renewable energy an easy and profitable investment. We are, in short, tomorrow’s energy company.

We are in a heavy growth phase expanding rapidly both in Sweden and globally. And we don’t plan to stop. The climate can’t wait. So why should we?

Do you want to be a part of the powershift and contribute to building a world class Supply Chain function? Well, then this is a no brainer.

Join our solar revolution! 😎

The role
As Category Buyer you will have full responsibility of your category while managing sourcing and supplier strategies connected to our offering. You will be a part of our global team working together to build a world class Supply Chain function.

You will be in the center of the powershift where you will have a huge impact not only on how we work today, but also how the department will operate in the future. It’s a team of four, two category buyers and two operational buyers all reporting to our Head of Global Procurement Marie Zäll (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-z%C3%A4ll-6835417b/).

In detail:

- Full responsibility for purchasing both globally and locally within your category
- Develop supplier strategies related to specific group of materials and services
- Negotiate, initiate and follow up on supplier agreements
- Use best practices to implement and develop ways of working both globally and locally
- Actively participating in integrating the new local markets within the business
- Drive your category forward together with other departments and local markets


Are we a match?
We hope that you like working in a fast-paced organization where we put a lot of trust in each other. We expected you to take own initiatives and come up with new ideas to face any challenges that might arise. On that, the team (consisting of a bunch of happy and sociable colleagues 😃) will be there to support one another since we strongly believe in sharing ideas and knowledge to move forward together.

With this said, we have a few things that we find important to succeed in this role:

- An academic degree within a relevant field
- Previous experience from purchasing (category/strategic/project)
- Experience of working with ERP systems, preferably Microsoft Dynamics BC.
- A true master at managing suppliers and negotiating prices and agreements
- Experience of working with international suppliers
- Fluent in English and Swedish


If you have experience from working within the solar industry that would be awesome, but nothing we expect. Having a genuine interest in renewable energy and a true sense of wanting to fix our planet takes you a long way. We'll help you get up to speed!

Read more about Svea Solar: https://sveasolar.com/se/

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