Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact – and your part matters.
Your role
Being the Head of IS/IT Procurement, you will have a business responsibility for all indirect material purchasing within the areas of Hardware, Software & IT Services. Your team consists of 6 procurement professionals such as Category Managers, Strategic Purchasers and Buyer. We have an atmosphere characterized by unpretentiousness, we help each other and share our knowledge with a solution-orientated approach.
You will be responsible to drive best in class Category Management and Supplier Relationship Management. In order for you to be successful you need to ensure tight collaboration with the key stakeholders in the Saab IT organisation as well as in the business areas and other group functions.
The main tasks:
- Optimize and manage the full sourcing need within the defined area and governing sourcing, procurement and supplier relationship activities.
- Develop, coach and manage your team that delivers professional sourcing activities in line with Saab Sourcing process, strategy and business plan.
- Strengthen Saab competitiveness and profitability by minimizing total cost and managing business risk for externally purchased goods and services, while securing the right quality, compliance and delivery focusing on sustainability.
- Secure alignment and cooperation with relevant stakeholders, within Saab IT.
- Take part in relevant decision forums (steering committees, boards etc.).
- Approve and /or develop (or delegate) sourcing strategies for assigned categories, strategies should be developed together with stakeholders.
- Secure that the supplier base is audited according to Saab demands.
Saab Procurement is in an exciting journey to drive Operational Excellence and becoming a world leading purchasing organization. We are working in a matrix organization and Group Procurement have a functional responsibility for Global Purchasing at Saab and a business responsibility for indirect material.
Your profile
To fit in this role, you must be highly self-motivated, driven, structured and communicative. You have a proven track record as manager in procurement and/or supply chain preferably within IT categories, expressing integrity in your position while being a true leader. When collaborating with stakeholders, you are confident with the ability to build relationships, influence and provide advice to key decision makers. Your leadership skills are proven and you are able to work independently, setting your own demanding objectives and translating those into strategic plans with a medium- to long-term view. You focus on achieving success in individual and team projects. Desirably, you also possess a keen interest to develop ways of working using digitalization.
Required skills:
- Master degree in relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience of procurement of IT goods and services
- Knowledge of IT specific commercial models, market development and supplier landscape
- Substantial experience, in procurement and/or supply chain.
- Highly developed business acumen.
- Excellent leadership skills and previous management experience.
- Excellent communication skills in English and Swedish, written and verbal.
- Proven track record of effective change management.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements in global procurement.
Desired skills:
- Management in matrix organizations
- Experience from defense and/or aviation industry
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 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 22,000 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
Group Procurement is a group function with a functional responsibility for 600 procurement professionals globally and a business responsibility for indirect procurement. Our mission is to create sustainable, efficient and profitable business, challenging ourselves and our suppliers, using high business acumen and a holistic view. During 2021 we have started a Procurement excellence program that will run over the next coming years to develop Saab into a world leading Purchasing organization.
The Group Procurement organization consists of 50 experienced colleagues, primarily of buyers and experts within areas such as Category Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Procure to Pay, Legal, Business analysis, Processes Methods &Tools development and Business Solution Management.
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.