Vacant job

We are over 5000 engaged food heroes who together make our fantastic journey possible.

Do you want to work in a varied environment and support our buyers in an educational role? Contribute to delivering the highest quality at the best price in the industry? Then this is the job for you!

Your Role

As a purchasing assistant, you will spend half of your time on administrative tasks and half on practical parts of the purchasing process. You provide our buyers with invaluable support in their daily work and contribute to achieving our goal of the highest quality at the best price in the industry. You will have ongoing contact with colleagues in your team, in other departments, in Germany, and with suppliers. You will be part of the food team. Your main tasks include:

• Preparing presentations.
• Evaluating and analyzing data.
• Creating, updating, and checking prices in reporting tools. Responsible for the weekly preparation of reports related to prices, both for brand and private label.
• Preparing and participating in assortment analyses, e.g., product group comparisons where you monthly visit competitors and purchase goods in the relevant product group. You will also follow competitors' advertising.
• Updating the number of products that our competitors have in their stores.
• Assisting with various tasks within the functional area, e.g., at the request of buyers, purchasing goods for quality control and preparing and participating in tastings.
• Helping buyers with test packaging, preparation, and sending it to the headquarters in Germany.

Your Profile

We are looking for someone who has a completed high school education and in addition has:

• A structured, solution-oriented, and meticulous working style, with the ability to quickly switch between different tasks.
• Ease in working together with others, but also enjoys working independently.
• Good communication skills and very good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written.
• Experience with the Office suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• A valid driver's license is required as the job involves tasks such as purchasing goods.
• Knowledge of German is an advantage.

We Offer

For us, it is important that our employees thrive. Therefore, we offer a job in an environment characterized by our values: performance, respect, trust, down-to-earth attitude, and community. As we grow, you can grow. Quickly. Within your role or towards another. In the same place or somewhere else. In retail, warehouse, office. Locally, nationally, or globally. We support you on your journey towards more responsibility and new challenges. You will be part of a large team where everyone rolls up their sleeves and helps each other. Sometimes you will find us at our state-of-the-art headquarters, where we have access to a gym and great discounted prices in the restaurant. But of course, we are also a flexible workplace with the possibility of hybrid work. You will receive everything from wellness grants, parental leave supplements, and employee discounts in our stores to free counseling from psychologists, lawyers, and financial advisors, as well as numerous offers through our benefits portal. Of course, you are also covered by a collective agreement and occupational pension. We enable fair salary setting within the company through a non-discriminatory salary system. For union-related questions, please contact the local union club at the email address unionenklubb_hk@lidl.se.

Do you want to be part of our journey?

If your answer is yes, then apply for the job as follows:

• Go to the link “apply now”
• Fill out the form
• Attach your CV

Our recruitment process consists of selection tests, phone interviews, personal interviews, and reference checks. Please contact us if you have a specific need for adjustments regarding the selection tests. This recruitment is ongoing, so we would like you to send your application as soon as possible, but no later than April 25, 2025. The position is a permanent employment with an initial probationary period. If you have questions about the position or the application process, please contact the recruitment team via email: jobbhk@lidl.se.

We look forward to your application!