Inköpare / Indirect Purchasing

About the position
You will work as Buyer of Bought Services within Indirect Purchasing.

Main Responsibilities
• Perform sourcing for bought-in services across the business in everything from Digital to HR
• Establish supplier bases for each area defining short & long term sourcing strategies, and aligning with the business/stakeholders
• Perform procurement according to defined strategies and frameworks
• Negotiate commercial and legal agreements
• Create Service agreements
• Review purchase requisitions and identify and select contract/suppliers in accordance with defined strategies and agreements
• Advise stakeholders on procurement issues, providing support and guidance at all stages of the procurement cycle as well as on modifications in requests
• Improve collaboration with stakeholders and together towards common goals
• Track key performance indicators on supplier and stakeholder contract compliance; define and take corrective actions to improve contracts compliance and continuously track supplier performance on quality and cost
• Perform necessary market analysis to support the sourcing activity
• Create and maintain commercial relations with suppliers and internal stakeholders
• Initiate and conduct supplier evaluations and supplier audits

Deliveries
• Sourcing status summary and report
• Project cost summary and report
• Understand services to be sourced
• Prepare the potential supplier list and present the list to stakeholders
• Prepare RFQ, send out RFQ, negotiate and secure best supplier choice 
• Prepare the presentation of supplier choice and present to management -business case
• On board suppliers after supplier selection

Qualifications
• Educational background in business administration, finance, purchasing or similar
• A minimum of 5 years of work experience in Indirect Purchasing, preferably within the automotive industry
• Experience of buying Bought Services/Work Packages preferably in a technical area
• Skilled in negotiations and in creating Service Agreements
• Fluent in Swedish and English both written and spoken
• Accustomed to working in a global environment with people of various cultural backgrounds
• Highly skilled in MS Office especially Excel
• Experience of working in purchase-/administrative tools & systems preferably SRM, Fieldglass and/or Workday is a great advantage

Important for the personality job fit:
• Excellent communication- and peoples´ skills 
• Quickly understand internal stakeholders needs and be service minded
• Flexible and can quickly be on top of terminology, way of working and always ready to change your way of working in order to find the best solution
• Used to handle many different projects and lots of data at the same time and work in a very structured and timely manner.

We will attribute great importance to personal suitability.

About the position
The assignment is a concultancy position with employment at Adecco. Start will be as soon as possible after agreement and initially last until the end of year 2021, with possibility of prolongation.

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

Caroline Carlsson at caroline.carlsson@adecco.se 

Welcome with your application!

Keywords
Buyer, Purchaser, Procurement, Inköpare, inköp, purchasing, sourcing, IDP, automotive industry, Gothenburg, Göteborg, Adecco