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About Kitron

Kitron, the leading EMS company in Scandinavia, works with the development, industrialization, and manufacturing of electronics for leading companies within the market segments of offshore/marine, medical equipment, defense/aerospace, energy/telecom, and industry. The company operates in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, India, China, Malaysia, and the USA. Kitron has approximately 2500 employees.

Our Values

Location: Jönköping

Are you a proactive and analytical buyer with a background in the manufacturing industry? Do you want to be part of a market-leading company that contributes to developing the electronics solutions of the future across various sectors? Kitron is now looking for a Sourcing Specialist to join its team!

Your Responsibilities:

As a Sourcing Specialist at Kitron, you will play a key role in ensuring efficient purchasing processes and developing relationships with both suppliers and customers. You will be part of a team with several colleagues working with purchasing and planning. Your main responsibilities include:

• Purchasing responsibility within specific customer programs – both operational and strategic.
• Negotiations and contracts – create inquiries, evaluate, negotiate, and develop long-term relationships with suppliers.
• Delivery follow-up – ordering and following up on deliveries.
• Maintenance and development of ERP systems and purchasing data.
• Representing purchasing in customer teams – both internally and externally.
• Continuously working on cost reduction and efficiency improvements.
• Ensuring that purchasing processes are implemented, driven, and completed within given timelines while optimizing inventory values in line with business plans.

Who are you, our new colleague?

As a person, you are proactive, engaged, and structured, and you enjoy challenges and innovative teamwork. In this role, you will mix operational and strategic tasks where your communication, analytical, and negotiation skills will be utilized. Communicating comes naturally to you, and you have a clear and unpretentious approach. You are attentive in your work and have a sense of what creates value for the organization. You hold Swedish citizenship. To succeed in this role, we see that you have:

• Experience in purchasing and mechanics within manufacturing companies.
• Competence in mechanics/electromechanics and understanding of various manufacturing processes.
• Good knowledge of ERP systems and generally good computer skills.
• Strong communication skills, both in Swedish and English.

In this recruitment, we collaborate with One partner Group, part of the recruitment process is to conduct a background check if you proceed in the process.