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Category Procurement Manager at Saab Surveillance
Are you a communicative and business driven leader and care about your employees' growth? Do you have the ability to think out of the box, and drive Procurement Excellence? Then you might be who we are looking for to supplement and strengthen our growing procurement organization. We now offer an exciting position as a Category Procurement Manager for System Mechanics, Composite Materials and Additive Manufacturing, located either in Järfälla (Stockholm) or Gothenburg.
If you know how to develop teams’ skills, competencies and performance, whilst balancing teamwork, collaboration and fun, in order to constantly evolve and grow Procurement’s ability to meet ever increasing needs and demands, then Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same purpose – to keep people and society safe.
Category Procurement
As Manager within Category Procurement at Saab Surveillance, you will manage one of our teams consisting of Category Account Managers, as well as Strategic- and Operative Buyers within a certain product category. Your team has the responsibility for the full Procurement lifecycle of sourcing parts to all four Saab Surveillance’ sites: Järfälla (Stockholm), Gothenburg, Huskvarna and Arboga. Your team is spread across Järfälla and Gothenburg.
Your Role
In order to succeed, grow and thrive, you are a prestigeless and solution-oriented leader who acts responsible, proactive and with a positive attitude. You are a strong driver for change, you challenge the status-quo, you are innovative, analytical and practical. You are a team player and highly supportive. By coaching your employees, driving business performance and improvements in the Procurement process, as well as day to day execution, you play a central role in contributing to our procurement targets. Your role in short includes:
Personnel responsibility for the team assigned
Commercial responsibility for your supplier base
KPI accountable for your team
Establishing professional and valuable relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Agreement coverage, operational development of processes, methods and tools together with Procurement driver and Process owner
Securing business compliance towards internal and external business requirements
You will be travelling to the different Saab sites in Sweden and visit suppliers, both domestic and internationally.
Your profile
We believe that you have prior experience from a managerial position or extensive experience from strategic sourcing roles and are eager to develop your leadership skills. You have an educational background within engineering, logistics, economics or business management / administration.
As a person, you are positive, have high engagement and networking skills to establish cross-functional networks spread between all Saab Surveillance sites. You are business driven, able to prioritize your work and always keep your employees in mind. Since the role requires contact with our suppliers, you should be fluent in both Swedish and English.
This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
Understanding of ERP systems, and Excel for analytical and reporting purposes is a strong positive.
What you will be a part of
Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between.
Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defence and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 23,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.
Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here
We are looking forward to hear from you!