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Strategic Buyer for the Swedish Red Cross

The Red Cross is looking for an engaged and development-oriented buyer for our central organization. In this role, you will have the opportunity to combine strategic and operational purchasing with business development – while simultaneously contributing to our humanitarian mission.

With us, your work makes a real difference.

About the role

As a buyer, you are responsible, in collaboration with the property and contract manager, for developing and ensuring efficient, sustainable, and structured purchasing within the organization. The role combines strategic and operational purchasing work with the development of processes, analysis, and internal competence.

You will work closely with several functions within the organization, such as the property and contract manager, logistics, area managers, and the operations as a whole. This is a broad role with significant contact both within the organization and with suppliers. For the right person, there will be great opportunities to develop the role. The buyer is part of the Finance and Purchasing unit.

Main responsibilities:

• Drive and conduct tenders and negotiations
• Develop and implement category strategies
• Create and further develop efficient purchasing processes and policies
• Ensure compliance with guidelines and framework agreements
• Prepare analyses and decision support materials for management
• Propose actions based on spend analysis and follow-up
• Train and support employees on purchasing matters
• Contribute to increased purchasing maturity in the organization

About you

We are looking for someone who:

• Has at least 7–10 years of experience in operational and strategic purchasing
• Has strong analytical skills and a structured working method
• Is pedagogical and enjoys training and supporting others
• Has good collaboration skills and builds trust within the organization
• Works proactively and has the ability to independently drive process improvements within the organization

You have:

• Post-secondary education in purchasing, economics, logistics, or equivalent
• Experience in tendering, negotiation, and contract work
• Experience in analysis (e.g., spend analysis, KPIs)
• Very good knowledge of Swedish and English

We offer

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

Additional information

The position is a permanent full-time role located at our office on Lindhagensgatan in Stockholm. We apply goal-oriented working hours and flexible work arrangements, 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. There is a 6-month probation period. Start date by agreement.

Our recruitment process

We welcome your application by August 12. Please feel free to contact the hiring manager, Merja Paska, via email at [email protected] if you have questions about the role.

The Swedish Red Cross strives to be an inclusive organization with employees who contribute to diversity in perspectives, experience, and background. We believe this makes us more relevant. Therefore, we encourage applications from people with diverse ethnic and social backgrounds, gender identities and expressions, religion, age, disabilities, and sexual orientations.

Our recruitment process begins 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 in your references. Final candidates may also be screened against EU and UN sanctions lists.

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