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Your role
We are looking for a business-driven Operational Purchaser to join our team within IS/IT at Group Procurement, supporting Saab Business Areas within Indirect material & services. You will be responsible for operational and tactical tasks and collaborate in a wide network within Saab and its Suppliers creating stronger business together.
You will be responsible for executing purchasing requests within a various range of IT categories such as Hardware, Software, IT Services as well as other IT categories. You will facilitate and engage in dialogue with internal stakeholders as well as the external supply base, to ensure terms are understood, accepted and implemented.
The main tasks are:
- Conduct purchase orders and enable efficient digital P2P solutions.
- Ensure correct supplier onboarding and setups for supplier punch outs and catalogues.
- Ensure the system content regarding products, services, information and that prices and delivery terms (Terms and conditions) are updated correctly.
- Assist and work with reports and data analysis as needed.
- Collaborate and communicate with Strategic Purchasers in the IS/IT team.
- Collaborate and communicate within cross functional teams throughout the Saab organisation.
- Analyse supplier market and Saab demand.
- Propose improvements in order to work more efficiently.
Your profile
We are looking for a highly motivated and results-oriented individual with a strong commitment to driving business success. You possess excellent collaboration and communication skills, enabling you to build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. Your ability to communicate and collaborate effectively will be crucial in ensuring smooth procurement processes and successful outcomes.
Required skills:
- High school diploma or a Higher Vocational Education qualification in Procurement (Kvalificerad Yrkesutbildning), or equivalent professional experience. An academic degree is considered an advantage.
- Proven experience in procurement or sourcing is required. Experience specifically in IT, software, hardware and IT related services is preferred.
- Demonstrates both an interest in and an overall understanding of IT.
- Interest in continuous improvements and digitalisation.
- Excellent Swedish and English skills, verbal and written.
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.
What you will be 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 25,500 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
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.