Procurement Specialist for Supply Chain Team

The Management Office of Uppsala County Council is part of Region Uppsala, one of the largest employers in Uppsala County. The Management Office is led by the County Director and consists of approximately one thousand employees. With a governing, supportive, and coordinating role, the Management Office is tasked with supporting the political leadership and administrations to ensure that political guidelines are implemented across the region's various operations. In this way, Region Uppsala can fulfill its role, both regionally and nationally.

Do you want to develop and contribute to the growth of Region Uppsala? We welcome you to work with us!

Do you want to use your clinical experience to improve healthcare's access to the right products? Then this temporary position might be just right for you! We are now looking for a Procurement Specialist for the Supply Chain team for a temporary position of just over one year, from September 1, 2026, to September 30, 2027. This is an exciting opportunity for you with a background in healthcare to test a new role where your experience makes a difference.

About Us

The Supply Chain team is a collaboration between the county councils of Dalarna, Västmanland, Sörmland, Uppsala, and Örebro. Every year, we conduct procurements valued at approximately 2 billion SEK, and our portfolio includes 100,000 articles. Region Uppsala hosts the collaboration, and the Supply Chain team's employees are part of the same department as the region's own procurement specialists and buyers.

Within the Supply Chain team, procurement specialists, purchasing controllers, environmental chemists, business developers, product, contract, quality, and procurement coordinators, an E-commerce manager, informants, and management work together to provide healthcare and dental care with consumables of the right quality and price. Our work makes a difference.

Your Role

As a Procurement Specialist, you plan, lead, and execute procurements from needs analysis to contract signing and contract management. The work covers the entire procurement process, from creating specifications, drafting procurement documents, signing contracts, and managing contracts. The role also includes providing support in procurement matters and developing purchasing and procurement activities together with your colleagues at the unit.

The work as a Procurement Specialist is stimulating and varied with many contacts, and you will become a central figure in the work. The role involves leading, steering, and collaborating with expert groups consisting of different professional roles.

The role of Procurement Specialist requires business acumen and analytical skills. You take responsibility for your tasks, structure your approach, and drive your processes forward efficiently. You can prioritize and handle several different types of assignments simultaneously, which includes planning, setting up, and maintaining timeframes. You have the ability to adapt to the situation and your interaction with the recipient in a listening, clear, and smooth manner. As a person, you are secure, stable, and self-aware.

As a Procurement Specialist, you will:

• Independently execute procurements primarily within orthopedic implants, surgical instruments, as well as stapling and energy instruments
• Work closely with operations to understand and meet their needs
• Lead expert groups consisting of different professions
• Be a consulting and supportive expert in procurement matters

We are looking for you who have:

• Clinical experience as a nurse or assistant nurse, preferably within orthopedics or surgery and/or
• Longer experience as a procurement specialist for consumables or medical technology equipment to healthcare, preferably within orthopedics or surgery and/or
• Longer experience within sales of consumables or medical technology equipment to healthcare, preferably within orthopedics or surgery
• Good knowledge of the Office package
• Very good ability to communicate orally and in writing in Swedish as well as good knowledge of English
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team

It is meritorious if you have:

• Experience of purchasing, procurement, or sales or purchasing within healthcare-related consumables, products, and/or equipment
• Experience of working with improvement work, for example material selection or changed working methods that lead to cost savings
• Experience of project management or other roles where you lead others
• Valid driver's license (Category B)

We offer

• A meaningful job where you make a difference for healthcare and patients
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and contribute to developing purchasing and procurement activities
• Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely some days a week
• Wellness allowance, occupational pension, extra vacation days for those over 40, and benefits related to parental leave
• Competence development through internal and external training

Location: Regionens Hus in central Uppsala, but the position may involve travel within Sweden.

With us, you get benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/ (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/)).

Do you want to know more?

Unit Manager Linn Jansson, 018-617 23 81
Union representatives:
Vision - Christianne Simson, 018-611 32 51
SACO - Örjan Olsmats, 018-611 00 00 (switchboard)
Other unions can be reached via Region Uppsala's switchboard at 018-611 00 00.

Do you want to work with us?

Send your application by June 28, 2026. Selection and interviews take place continuously with planned start for interviews in June and July 2026.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to the operations and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different birth backgrounds, functionalities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala mobilizes all permanent staff based on the needs of the total defense. This means no obligations for the individual employee in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a decision on employment, a check of suspicion and criminal records is conducted for all job seekers who, in the sought employment, may come to work within psychiatric healthcare, habilitation, care of children and youth, or compulsory care of addicts, areas covered by optional record extracts. This therefore applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks at present are not intended to mainly contain work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is conducted entirely through Region Uppsala, and we decline phone calls from recruitment agencies and ad sales representatives.