Procurement Specialist for Supply Chain – Region Uppsala

The Executive Office of Region Uppsala is part of Region Uppsala, one of the largest employers in Uppsala County. The office is led by the Regional Director and consists of approximately one thousand employees. With a governing, supportive, and coordinating role, the Executive Office is tasked with supporting the political leadership and administrations to ensure that political directions 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 join us!

Do you want to use your clinical experience to improve healthcare access to the right products?

We are now looking for a Procurement Specialist for the Supply Chain team, responsible for procuring consumables for healthcare, primarily within cardiology, neurology, thorax, radiology, and surgery. This position offers an exciting opportunity for someone with a background in healthcare to take the step into a new role where your experience makes a difference.

Our Operations

The Supply Chain is a collaboration between the regions of Dalarna, Västmanland, Sörmland, Uppsala, and Örebro. Each 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 employees are part of the same department as the region's own procurement specialists and buyers.

Your Role

As a Procurement Specialist, you plan, lead, and execute procurements from needs analysis to contract signing and contract management. The role also involves providing support in procurement matters and developing purchasing and procurement activities together with your colleagues in 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 adhering to timeframes. You have good self-awareness and the ability to adapt to situations and recipients in a sensitive, clear, and flexible manner. As a person, you are secure and find it easy to establish and nurture relationships and collaborations.

As a Procurement Specialist, you will:

• Independently execute procurements within areas such as catheter-based interventions for vessels, neurology, and PCI, as well as TAVI interventions, interventional and radiology materials, customer-specific sets, and arrhythmia and pacemaker products.
• Work closely with operations to understand and meet their needs.
• Lead expert groups consisting of different professions.
• Act as a consulting and supportive expert in procurement matters.

Your Qualifications

• A degree as a nurse or assistant nurse with experience from clinical work in healthcare.
• Very good knowledge of Excel and good knowledge of the rest of the Office package.
• Very good ability to communicate verbally and in writing in Swedish, as well as good knowledge of English.
• Interest in driving complex projects with periods of high workload.

It is meritorious if you have:

• Clinical experience as a nurse or assistant nurse within cardiology, neurology, thorax, radiology, or surgery.
• Experience in purchasing, procurement, or sales of consumables, products, and/or equipment for healthcare.
• Experience in independently executing or participating in procurement processes.
• Experience in improvement work, such as material selection or changed working methods leading to cost savings.
• Experience in public procurement and good knowledge of the Public Procurement Act (LOU).
• Experience with the products included in the area of responsibility.
• A driver's license (Category B), as travel is involved in the position.

We Offer

• Meaningful work where you make a difference for healthcare and patients.
• The opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and contribute to the development of 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

Regionhuset in central Uppsala, but the position may involve travel within Sweden.

At our organization, you receive benefits that make a difference. Read about our benefits here: Region Uppsala Benefits (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/).

Want to know more?

Unit Manager Linn Jansson, 018-617 23 81, [email protected]
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?

Apply via the link below. Please submit your application by July 12th. Selection and interviews are conducted continuously, starting in June and July.

Read about employment terms and salary setting within Region Uppsala here: Become Our New Colleague (https://regionuppsala.se/jobb-och-utbildning/bli-var-nya-kollega/).

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 making 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 care, habilitation, care for children and youth, or compulsory care for substance abusers, areas covered by facultative record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks currently 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.