Vacant job

Purchasing and Logistics Department

The Management Office of Uppsala County is part of Region Uppsala, one of the largest employers in Uppsala County. The Management Office is led by the Regional 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 so that political direction is reflected in 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 join us!

Are you a nurse or assistant nurse passionate about optimizing and developing purchasing and logistics within healthcare operations? Then you could be our new Customer Manager!

Our Operations

The Supply Service is a collaboration between the regions of Dalarna, Västmanland, Sörmland, Uppsala, and Örebro, with the aim of supplying healthcare and dental care with consumables. Every year, procurements worth approximately 2 billion SEK are conducted. We have a total of approximately 100,000 articles under contract. Region Uppsala hosts the collaboration, and the Supply Service employees are part of the same unit as the region's own procurement officers and buyers.

The position is located in the Business Development Unit within the Purchasing and Logistics Department.

Your Role

As a Customer Manager, you are responsible for ensuring that our ordering operations utilize price competition in the product range efficiently, without compromising safety and quality. You will work in close collaboration with the range manager, ordering operations, and procurement officers to contribute to realizing savings within purchasing and logistics.

Your responsibilities:

• Contribute product knowledge to materials and analyses on how savings can be realized through more efficient use of the existing range.
• Establish and maintain contact groups with decision-makers in our ordering operations.
• Prepare materials on potential and realized savings.
• Be physically present on-site and meet decision-makers in our member regions.

We offer you a role where you take significant personal responsibility and have the opportunity to influence. Here, you become part of an engaged team that supports each other and shares the ambition to always deliver the highest quality.

Your Qualifications

• Hold a university degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience.
• Have several years of work experience in healthcare or dental care. Experience in sales is considered an advantage.
• Have good knowledge of the Office suite.
• Have fluent skills in Swedish, both spoken and written.

Your Competence

To succeed in the role, we see that you are trained as a nurse or assistant nurse and have experience working in health and social care. Your background gives you a good understanding of how products are used in healthcare and what needs the operations have. Furthermore, you are a meticulous and structured person with a strong customer focus. You collaborate easily and take initiative to develop and streamline work processes. You have the ability to conduct dialogue, both with the operations' experts in the healthcare field and with the decision-makers responsible for the budget.

We Offer

• The position is a fixed-term contract until 2026-08-31.
• Here you receive benefits that make a difference; read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/ (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/)).

Want to know more?

Contact Casper Tham, Unit Manager, 018-6171053

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?

We welcome your application via the link below.

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

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

Before making a decision on employment, checks of suspicion and criminal records are conducted for all job seekers who, in the applied position, may come to work within psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and youth, or compulsory care for substance abusers, areas covered by optional record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks at present are not intended to primarily involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.

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