Senior Swedish Purchasing Specialist Permanent

SENIOR SWEDISH PURCHASING SPECIALIST 

Location: Prague 

An experienced sourcing professional who possesses excellent negotiation skills and develops sourcing strategies independently to optimally secure price, availability and delivery. Also should showcase the abilities of a good team player, good client management skills and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and research trends in the industry as well as “Best Practices” and pursue and adopt these as appropriate for assigned commodity area.
• Solicits bids, leads auctions, negotiates with suppliers, makes recommendations, qualifies and contracts with new vendor
• Manage internal customer relationships by leading cross functional sub-category teams, developing deep category knowledge and to aggressively track and improve non-compliance with preferred supplier(s)
• Maintain good level of public relations with outside suppliers as well as a strong partnership with internal stakeholders
• Manage and optimize functional sourcing support activities while ensuring adherence to clients corporate standards.
• Draft and/or evaluate scorecards. Conduct complex suppliers performance validation events and drive improvement initiatives.
• Conduct complex/adhoc supplier profiling and financial risk assessment. Should be able to do industry benchmarking and market intelligence reports independently.

Skills

• Knowledge of project management and sourcing
• Financial analysis and quantitative skills
• Business acumen: Understanding how markets work
• Change Mgmt. Skills: Effective influencer who can make persuasive arguments
• Negotiation skills includes building eAuction strategies
• Excellent communication – written and verbal
• Fluent SWEDISH – GERMAN is an advantage 

Experience

Education:       Bachelor’s Degree (RQ)

Experience:     2-3 yrs. relevant purchasing experience

Proficiency:     Familiarity with Microsoft office suites, Outlook, ERP/ P2P systems knowledge(RQ)

Tagged as: finance, German, procurement, Purchasing, Swedish