Purchase Specialist

As Purchase Specialist you will select and organize the suppliers in order to establish long-term and stable cooperation relationships. The work will include primarily Northern Europe and secondarily the greater European Region. Responsibilities: - To develop and implement purchasing strategies and plans. - To Organize, anticipate, selecting and manage the suppliers based on CEG's purchasing strategy. Aiming at securing continous supply delivery, achieve purchasing competitive advantages and assist the achievement of business objectives. - Select and manage suppliers' performance based on among other things the technology, quality, response time, delivery, cost, environmental and social responsibility, etc, in order to fulfil the business needs. - Analyze purchasing requisition and market trends, achieve purchasing cost control targets and reduce purchasing cost. - Monitor the purchasing process, prompt maintain purchasing contract/agreement and supplier certified data in order to ensure purchasing activities apply to formal purchasing process and policy, and updating the supplier information. - Risk evaluation, developing and implementing risk prevention policy/action plan, and ensure the continuity of service from the suppliers. - Maintaining communication with suppliers. - Collect information and continuously analyze the industry, market, customer, R&D information, explore potential alternative supplier resources and thereby ensure the effectiveness of the purchasing strategy/Plan. Qualifications: - At least 3 years purchasing or suppliers qualified management experience. - Familiar with Non-Production purchasing market trend in the Nordic region, susceptibility to market changes. - Good analytical skills, problem solving skills, negotiation skills and good focus on details. - Fluent in English and Swedish, being able to understand Chinese is an advantage; excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills. - Having Swedish B driving licence. - Appropriate IT skills, including Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, email/Internet. - Some knowledge and/or interest in Special Education. - Adaptability to foreign cultures.