Purchasing Lawyer for Enköping Municipality

Enköping Municipality is looking for a purchasing lawyer who wants to work close to operations and contribute to legally secure and business-oriented procurement processes. Here, you will play a central role in developing the municipality's purchasing work – both operationally and strategically.

The Purchasing Department is a central function located within the Municipal Executive Office, responsible for the municipality's procurements, contract management, and e-commerce. We work closely with the municipality's various operations, combining specialist competence with a focus on development and individual responsibility.

We are currently developing our working methods with a focus on more efficient processes, digitalization, and increased use of AI as support in purchasing and legal work.

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1 position(s).

Job Description

As a purchasing lawyer here, you will have a key role in ensuring that the municipality's procurements are carried out legally, commercially, and with high quality. You will work closely with purchasers, managers, and operations, contributing both as legal expert support and in the development of our working methods.

The position is located in Enköping Municipality's newly built municipal house in central Enköping, with the possibility of hybrid work.

The role includes:

• conducting and quality-assuring procurements according to LOU (Public Procurement Act)
• providing qualified legal advice within procurement and contract law
• drafting and reviewing contracts and procurement documents
• handling appeals, statements, and disputes
• conducting legal risk assessments
• monitoring legal developments and implementing them in practice
• conducting internal training and strengthening the organization's competence
• contributing to the development of processes, governance, and working methods

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have:

• a law degree
• good knowledge of LOU and procurement law
• very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing

The following are meritorious:

• experience in procurement legal work
• experience from the public sector
• practical experience with procurements and/or appeals
• knowledge of construction law
• experience in conducting training
• interest in digitalization and AI

Personal Qualities

You are confident in your legal competence and can make independent assessments in complex matters. You work in a structured manner, collaborate well, and have the ability to communicate law in a clear and operationally relevant way. You are also development-oriented and see opportunities to improve working methods and processes.

Does this sound like you? We warmly welcome your application!

We gladly receive applications throughout the application period until August 10th. Towards the end of July, we will begin working with rolling selections for this recruitment. If you are interested in the position, we therefore recommend that you submit your application before then.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Start date: By agreement.

We warmly welcome your application! In some recruitments, we work with rolling selections, so you may hear from us before the stated application deadline.

For this position, the candidate offered employment must first present a valid extract from the criminal record register for work in a leading position within the municipality. The extract must not be older than six months and can be ordered via the Police Authority's website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/arbete-till-en-ledande-befattning-inom-kommuner/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/arbete-till-en-ledande-befattning-inom-kommuner/)

During the interview, you will need to verify your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or alternatively a population registration certificate together with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must show that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only take place after verification of the work permit, as required by the Aliens Ordinance.

Your application documents are subject to the principle of public access and may therefore be released as a public document after a confidentiality assessment. If you want to know more about how Enköping Municipality generally handles personal data, more information is available on our website.

For those with a protected identity, information on how to apply for the position can be found via the link below: https://enkoping.se/underwebbar/jobb-och-karriar-i-enkoping/jobba-hos-oss/var-rekryteringsprocess.html (https://enkoping.se/underwebbar/jobb-och-karriar-i-enkoping/jobba-hos-oss/var-rekryteringsprocess.html)

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