Procurement Manager

Role Summary

The main responsibility of the Purchasing Manager is to transforms company vision, strategy and plans in to a purchasing strategy while providing all Scania departments with effective purchasing support and tools to maximize overall cost effectiveness and increased profits. This is achieved by working in close cooperation with Business Unit Management and departments with well-defined processes and procedures and through clear communication.

Job Responsibilities

Set Purchasing Strategy: Responsible for purchasing strategy and procedures in the Business Plan.

• Create, develop and implement a Business Unit purchasing strategy
• Ensure clear Procurement Area strategies are implemented and maintained by Procurement Area Leaders
• Adjust and implement purchasing policies in line with Scania Corporate guidelines
• Ensure clear communication of set strategy and procedure, validate compliance and offer support when necessary
• Determine quantity and timing of deliveries
• Ensure routines to monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand
• Forecast price and market trends to identify risks and opportunities
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
• Identifying opportunities for direct and indirect cost saving
• Supporting savings with reduction of process costs
• Ensure routines are in place to identify, contact and partner with with reliable vendors and suppliers
• Maintain and develop relationship with strategic suppliers

Lead Purchasing Operations: Develop, manage and follow up the purchasing and sourcing operations in the Business Unit.

• Oversee and coordinate overall and day-to-day purchasing and sourcing operations
• Promote and encourage a result and customer oriented mind-set in the teams
• Follow up operational results and overall performance
• Identify deviations and generate appropriate action plans
• Ensure implementation and development of structured processes and procedures for the purchasing organisation and Scania operations in general
• Warrant a cooperative way of working across the applicable departments with other parts of the Business Unit organisation and Scania globally, ensuring an open and effective cross functional communication.
• Lead departmental meetings
• Visit dealers and workshops regularly for development and follow up
• Visit and interact with customers and suppliers

Competencies:

• Business Perspective: Using an understanding of business issues, processes and outcomes to enhance business performance.
• Communication skills:Strong communication skills in order to ensure constructive relationships and transparency with suppliers and all internal stakeholders.
• Contract Management: Ability to negotiate and create contracts for signing by understanding the risks and legal impact.
• Managing People: Managing others to ensure their work contributes to organizational goals. Developing individuals, building teams, resolving conflicts and applying workplace policies.
• Negotiation: Ability to explore positions and alternatives to reach best possible outcome by seeking mutual benefits and maintaining relationship in business discussions with the counterparts
• Products and services: Maintains an up to date understanding of products and services necessary to perform duties and tasks. Understands Scania products and services value proposition connected to processes and business. 
• SHE: Demonstrates understanding for importance of safety and health policies, procedures and regulations. Creates and safeguards a healthy, safe and sustainable work environment for all employees.
• Stakeholder & Supplier Management:Knows how to identify important external and internal stakeholders. Is able to create and maintain positive relationships with them in order to manage expectations and different interests, understand their impact on the business as well as to prepare and accomplish agreements.

Personal Competencies:

• Analytical Thinking: Analyzing and synthesizing information to understand issues, identify options, and support sound decision making.
• Communication:Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and building consensus.
• Exemplifying Integrity: Treating others fairly, honestly, and respectfully, furthering the integrity of the organization and its relationships of trust with the broader community.
• Leadership: Strong leadership skills, create a strong team spirit, collaboration and communication within the team. Skills in people development, ability to create a respectful team dynamic and high efficient team
• Leading change: Recognizing the need for change, being open to new ideas and methods, and championing transformational change within the organization and beyond.
• Result oriented: Demonstrates the effort, willingness and ambition to achieving results. Meets objectives and responds proactively to avoid disappointing results. 

Interfaces:

• Customers
• Suppliers
• Dealers
• Services
• Sales
• Parts
• Financial Services
• Business Unit Management
• Scania Corporate Organisations
• Scania Corporate Purchasing

Applicable process, standards and guidelines:

• Purchasing processes & standards
• Workshop Process
• Sales Process
• Services Delivery Process
• Order to Delivery Process
• Dealer Operating Standard
• Complying with SHE and SRS principles
• National and international legal and regulatory requirements
• Scania Group Policies
• Code of Conduct / Compliance / Ethics at Scania

Desirable experience & qualifications:

• Higher education or equivalent work experience
• Relevant business knowledge and experience in a similar role
• Extensive managerial and leadership experience preferably in the heavy vehicle or a related B2B industry
• Experience from a position with a large number of direct reports with a P&L responsibility
• Experience of Sourcing and Purchasing or equivalent relevant experience
• Experience of cooperation with internal and external stakeholders and demand management
• Fluent in English

Integrity & Compliance

All applications will be treated with full confidentially and will only be made available to the people involved in the recruitment process.

NB: Please be advised in order to apply for this vacancy you need to have been employed in your current role for a minimum of 1 year.