Vacant job

Our client is looking for a driven Category Manager who wants to shape the future within waste and recycling. Here you have the opportunity to contribute to sustainable development in a role with significant autonomy. Apply today, selections are made on an ongoing basis!

About the role

As a Group Category Manager, you will play a key role in developing and optimizing framework agreements, with a particular focus on waste and recycling within the company's group. The goal is to ensure access to goods and services, strengthen the organization's competitiveness, and ensure that suppliers meet set requirements and expectations towards the various units of the business. You will work with digitalization and sustainability issues. The role is for you who thrive with a high degree of autonomy and where you will collaborate closely with environmental specialists and other stakeholders, requiring good communication and collaboration skills.

What we offer

You are offered a role with great freedom under responsibility, where you largely get to steer your own work and drive your own initiatives. You will work with many contact surfaces and continuously learn new things in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

In this role, there is a strong focus on developing and improving supplier relations and contracts, where you also handle new legal requirements. The work involves a mix of strategic development and operational problem-solving to ensure efficient purchasing processes.

• Develop and improve existing contracts.
• Negotiate new framework agreements and adapt them to new legal requirements.
• Meet with suppliers to optimize collaborations and solve challenges.
• Focus on recycling and analysis of environmental data.
• Ensure clear documentation and presentation strategy for contracts.

We are looking for you who

• Have at least four years of experience in purchasing.
• Are fluent in Swedish and English, both spoken and written.
• Are meticulous and solution-oriented with a strong customer perspective, while also being a good listener and humble.
• Possess strong self-drive and initiative.

It is meritorious if you have

• Experience in a similar role as a category buyer.
• Experience in a purchasing role from the waste or recycling industry.
• Experience from the construction industry.
• Worked in the Qlik Sense system.

To succeed in the role, you have the following personal qualities:

• Adaptable to change
• Helpful
• Goal-oriented
• Organized
• Intellectually curious
• Respectful

Our recruitment process

This recruitment process is handled by Academic Work, and our client's wish is that all questions regarding the position are sent to Academic Work.

We apply ongoing selection and will remove the ad when enough candidates have reached the final stage of the recruitment process. A CV is requested upon application. We do not use cover letters as a selection method, so one does not need to be attached. The recruitment process includes two selection tests: a personality test and a cognitive ability test. The tests are a tool to find the candidate with the highest potential for the position and to promote equality, diversity, and a fair recruitment process.