Team Manager Purchasing and Sourcing - Lund, Sverige - Alfa Laval

Beskrivning

Alfa Laval is looking for a Team Manager of Purchasing and Sourcing for Lund, Sweden.

At Alfa Laval, where 140 years of rich history meets a dynamic start-up culture, we're renowned for our leading- edge technology to enable energy efficiency, clean energy, and water solutions. Our journey of innovation is far from over, and we invite you to join us in shaping a brighter future. We value collaboration, inclusion, and a learning mindset as we are paving the way towards net zero, making this vacancy the perfect opportunity to grow and thrive in your purposeful career.

About the job

In this role, you will be responsible for managing all material purchases to ensure compliance with company policy and procedures, while meeting the materials needs for the factory and working with global purchasing to identify and develop a work-class vendor network. You will ensure an efficiently operating supply planning group with special emphasis on timely and accurate vendor deliveries, purchase cost reduction, the production requirements of products and services are handled in an efficient and timely manner. You will also be involved in the smooth coordination of the purchasing of raw materials and production supplies. This will be accomplished through the implementation of commodity strategy plans and the management of supplier relationships. You will partner with management to develop commodity strategies. You will have the opportunity to perform at a high level of Customer service as a part of the Factory Supply chain in end-to-end flow, collaborating closely with the Customer Service Group to ensure supply is done timely and at a high quality. This position reports to the Factory Manager with dotted line to the Product Group Sourcing Manager. Team responsibility for 11 direct reports which include White Collar. Travel is limited to 10% of working time per year.

Who you are

We believe you are a driven, decisive person with a collaborative nature who has a passion for seeing positive results. You work cross functionally with great focus on internal customer needs. You have the to balance tactical and strategical challenges. You can create, implements vendor KPI's and drive activity and motivation. You take a strong interest and enjoy developing employee's competences.

What you know

• Bachelor's degree with an emphasis on Purchasing, Accounting, Logistics or Finance
• 5 years purchasing experience within a manufacturing environment; or related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Expertise in the supply chain planning principles
• Strong knowledge of safety in a manufacturing environment
• Proficient in inventory management principles
• Strong analytical skills with experience measuring and improving processes to meet organizational goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills at different levels across the organization; excellent interpersonal skills
• People development competence
• Fluency in English (written and verbal), Swedish fluency is an advantage

What's in it for you

We offer an exciting and challenging position in an inclusive and innovative environment where we help each other to develop and create value. Your work will have a true impact for a sustainable future and Alfa Laval's future success.

For more information, please contact:

Arianna Garcia, Talent Acquisition Partner,

Ekaterina Akulina, Factory Manager,

For Union Information, please contact:

Johan Ranhög, Akademikerna,

Bror Garcia Lantz, Union,

Johnny Hultén, IF Metall,

We review applications continually. Applications sent directly via email will be disregarded without notice.

We care about diversity, inclusion, and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you may be invited to play the assessment games.

We look forward to hearing from you soon

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