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Become part of the world's largest humanitarian movement. The Red Cross is the world's largest humanitarian movement and is present in 191 countries. When disaster strikes, we are already on the ground to help vulnerable people, not least thanks to 16 million volunteers. The Swedish Red Cross operates in crisis and disaster, protection issues, as well as health and care. We have the trust to convert contributions from individuals, companies, and authorities into concrete efforts for the most vulnerable. We fight to save lives and give hope, everywhere and every day. No matter what role you work in, you contribute – in your specific profession and through initiative and courage. Welcome to our world!

Contract and Property Manager at the Swedish Red Cross

The Red Cross is looking for an engaged and development-oriented Contract and Property Manager for our central organization. In this role, you will have the opportunity to combine contract issues, property/premises issues, and logistics issues while contributing to our humanitarian mission.

With us, your work makes a real difference.

About the role

The role involves overall responsibility for contracts, premises, and property-related issues, ensuring efficient solutions for the organization through close collaboration with internal operations and external suppliers. You contribute to creating functional, efficient, and sustainable environments that enable the Red Cross's humanitarian work.

Your main tasks:

• Property management of the organization's premises, contracts, and rental law, ensuring purposeful and efficient use of spaces.
• Work on sustainability issues related to premises (energy, environment, social sustainability).
• Contract issues within the organization, including general contract matters, support to purchasers, and leading negotiations with suppliers in priority areas.
• Responsibility for property-related services (maintenance, cleaning, security, equipment), including accountability to property owners, landlords, and suppliers.
• Insurance issues – contracts and negotiations with suppliers.
• Safety responsibility for perimeter security – solutions and supplier responsibility, fire safety work.
• Coordination for office services and office managers for the SRK's various offices across the country, including workplace environment rounds with responsible managers.
• Ensure compliance with laws and regulations in related areas of responsibility.

About you

We are looking for you who have:

• Relevant university education in law, property management, and/or property economics.
• Many years of experience in property management and/or premises supply.
• Many years of experience in procurement and contract management, as well as negotiations with suppliers with good results.
• Experience working with logistics issues.
• Experience with budget responsibility.
• Leadership experience.

You are:

• Structured.
• Business-minded and solution-oriented.
• Good at negotiation and collaboration.
• Independent with good prioritization skills.
• Very good at collaboration and communication.
• Engaged in societal issues and shares the Red Cross's values.

We offer

• Meaningful work in a values-driven organization.
• Opportunity to influence and develop the procurement function.
• Flexible and inclusive work environment.
• Engaged colleagues and a strong societal mission.

Other information

The position is a permanent full-time employment located at our office on Lindhagensgatan in Stockholm. The role may involve travel within Sweden, primarily to our other staff offices in Malmö, Gothenburg, and Umeå.

We apply goal-oriented working hours and flexible work, meaning you have the opportunity to work from another location up to two days a week, based on the organization's conditions and in consultation with your manager.

We apply a 6-month probation period. Start date by agreement.

How we recruit

We welcome your application by August 12th.

Feel free to contact the recruiting manager Margareta Fast, email [email protected] if you have questions about the position.

The Swedish Red Cross strives to be an inclusive organization with employees who contribute to diversity in perspective, experience, and background. We believe this makes us more relevant. Therefore, we are keen to recruit people with different ethnic and social backgrounds, gender identity and expression, religion, age, disabilities, and sexual orientation.

Our recruitment process starts with an initial selection based on a established requirement profile, followed by interviews and in some cases online tests, as well as background checks and reference checks.

As the Swedish Red Cross is part of the "Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct" to protect our sector from sexual abuse, we ask specific questions regarding this to your references. Final candidates may also be screened against EU and UN sanctions lists.

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