Vacant job

Norrmejerier is looking for a business-driven and innovative Strategic Buyer who wants to develop our purchasing function and secure our major future investments by focusing on growth, supplier development, and future business. This is a role for you who thrives when you get to influence and drive the business forward together with others. We welcome your application!

Your day-to-day life with us

At Norrmejerier, we process the Northern Swedish milk raw material into a wide range of world-class dairy products.

As Category Manager for Strategic Purchasing, you play a central role in our purchasing work, focusing on inputs, raw material optimization, and indirect materials. You are responsible for driving the categories in a business-like manner, with primary focus on identifying and implementing cost optimizations, creating value, and managing risks in the supply chain.

You work independently on both strategic and operational issues. To succeed in this role, you need to enjoy building and developing good relationships. You will collaborate closely with both colleagues and suppliers, which places high demands on social competence, teamwork, and clear communication.

You will become an important part of developing our business, commercial tenders, strengthening supplier relationships, and identifying new market opportunities – always with sustainability and long-term perspective in focus.

Examples of responsibilities:

• Drive and develop purchasing work and our processes in line with the company's overall goals and strategies
• Overall category responsibility for inputs and indirect materials
• Identify and realize cost savings and take value-creating initiatives
• Responsible for supplier development, follow-up, and risk management
• Develop existing supplier collaborations and identify new business opportunities
• Ensure compliance with quality, sustainability, and regulatory requirements
• Work with cost optimization and material analysis
• Participate in and drive development projects
• Conduct supplier assessments
• Keep yourself well-informed and have an understanding of the market and its development
• Lead negotiations and draw up and enter into agreements
• Monitor Norrmejerier's commercial interests in CAPEX tenders

Who are you?

We are looking for you who have relevant higher education in economics, engineering, purchasing, law, or equivalent work experience. You have documented multi-year experience in negotiation and contract work. It is meritorious if you have experience in category management of purchasing work, leadership skills/experience, or project management.

You are a person who combines business acumen and analytical ability with energy, curiosity, and a strong drive forward. You are a humble team player who likes to build relationships, sees opportunities in change, and is motivated by creating results together with others. You are goal-oriented and proactive, and in a structured and careful way, you lead yourself and others. Your planning skills are important; you are analytical and driven by creating good business. Being able to look up and work with both a long-term horizon and handle daily management to achieve results are skills that are important in the role.

As a person, it is important that you are attracted to and live our values for employee relations.

You handle and convey information in a simple and easy-to-understand way, orally and in writing, in both Swedish and English, both internally and externally.

We offer you

Norrmejerier is a Northern Swedish food company and an important societal actor that does good. Together, our passion and long-standing craftsmanship are combined with technical skills when we process milk into world-class products. At Norrmejerier, we work with products and brands that people throughout the country know and like – and that are an important part of people's lives.

Here you will work for one of Umeå's largest private employers, a vibrant company with dairies in Umeå and Burträsk, and we are owned by Northern Swedish dairy farmers. Northern Swedish milk production is a prerequisite for long-term sustainable food supply. We think and act long-term based on nature's limitations.

Norrmejerier is a large, but small company where every individual employee is significant. Here there is room to grow and take responsibility. We create opportunities for diversity and development, we make a difference, and we do it together.

Other important information

The position is full-time and starts as agreed.

For more information about the position, contact:

Staffan Strömqvist, Head of Purchasing & Sales B2B, phone: 076-337 65 45

Contact our customer center to reach our union representatives within Unionen at phone: 090-18 28 00.

Application

Welcome with your application including CV and a cover letter where you tell more about yourself, what you are passionate about in your professional role, and why you want to work with us.

Selection is ongoing, so you are welcome to send your application as soon as possible, but no later than August 16, 2026.

ID document verifying your application is to be brought to a possible interview.

If you have a protected identity, please contact the switchboard at tel: 090-18 28 00 to get in touch with HR regarding how to proceed with your application.

A Northern experience. That does good.

The fresh Northern nature and climate give us unique conditions. Our Northern milk raw material is nutrient-dense and naturally leaves a smaller footprint on our planet. It is simply a difference between milk and milk.

Just like our nature, we give you magnificent experiences with our products. From our pasture to your stomach, we process our Northern milk raw material into a wide range of world-class dairy products.

We give you the experience of Norrland in a package.

About the employer - Norrmejerier

Norrmejerier Cooperative Society is the Norrland dairy and is owned by 329 local farmers, of which 259 are active milk suppliers in Norrbotten, Västerbotten, and parts of Västernorrland and Jämtland counties. We process annually over 200 million kg of milk at our dairies in Umeå and Burträsk into various dairy products such as milk, filmjölk, cream, and cheese. Our product range includes the brands Norrmejerier®, Västerbottensost®, Verum®, Fjäll®, and Norrgott®. Norrmejerier employs approximately 400 full-time employees and has an annual turnover of approx. 2 billion SEK.