Purchasing and Procurement Assistant at Östra Göinge Municipality

Östra Göinge Municipality, with just over 13,800 inhabitants, is centrally located in southern Sweden. Here, the open agricultural landscape meets the green forested countryside. In Östra Göinge, you find a good life with secure housing, good schools, magnificent nature, a broad cultural offering, a vibrant association life, and good communications. Östra Göinge is one of the country's boldest and most innovative municipalities. Here, setbacks have been turned into success, and proud Göinge residents grow!

Are you a service-oriented, structured, and engaged person who wants to develop within purchasing and procurement? Do you thrive in a role where you can combine administration, collaboration, and business acumen? Then you might be the one we are looking for!

The Purchasing Centre for Östra Göinge, Osby, Hörby, Höör, and Bromölla is now seeking a Purchasing and Procurement Assistant who wants to become part of our competent and engaged team.

We are in an exciting phase of development with a focus on future public business. With us, you have the opportunity to contribute to public benefit through smart, sustainable, and business-minded purchasing – while developing in your professional role.

What you will get with us:

• An important and varied role in an engaged, competent, and development-oriented purchasing team
• Opportunity to develop your knowledge within public procurement and purchasing
• Work closely with colleagues with specialist competence in procurement, purchasing control, sustainability, and project management
• Be involved in influencing the development of sustainable and strategic purchasing
• A dynamic work environment where collaboration between 5 municipalities and 13 companies is at the center

The Purchasing Centre currently consists of eleven employees and is organizationally placed in Östra Göinge Municipality. We work for five municipalities and thirteen municipal companies, which provides an exciting and varied daily life with many contact surfaces and the opportunity to gain insight into different operations.

1 position.

Job Description

The Purchasing Centre's mission is to translate political decisions and operational goals into good business and sustainable results through professional purchasing and procurement. We lead and develop the purchasing process, ensure that the needs of the operations are met, and provide support in daily purchasing work.

As a Purchasing and Procurement Assistant, you have an important supporting function throughout the entire procurement and contract process. You work closely with our procurers, purchasing controllers, project managers, and sustainability specialists, contributing to ensuring that our processes function efficiently, legally secure, and professionally.

Your tasks include among other things:

• Diary management and document handling
• Contract administration and contract registration
• Handling and disclosure of public documents
• Conducting direct procurements
• Renewed competitive tenders and call-offs from framework agreements
• Administration in procurement and contract tools
• Support to operations in matters concerning purchasing and contracts
• Ongoing contact with both internal buyers and external suppliers

The position offers a varied daily routine where you have the opportunity to develop your competence within public procurement while contributing to creating value for our municipalities and companies.

Qualifications and Merits

We are looking for you who have:

• A degree from a university college with a focus on purchasing or procurement, or other post-secondary education that the employer considers equivalent
• Good administrative skills and a structured approach to work
• Good knowledge of the Microsoft 365/Office package
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing

It is an advantage if you have:

• Knowledge of the Public Procurement Act (LOU)
• Experience in administrative work
• Experience with procurement, contract, or economic systems

As a person, you are:

• Service-oriented and solution-focused
• Responsible and careful
• Structured with good prioritization skills
• Relationship-building and communicative
• Collaborative and receptive
• Curious and open to new ways of working and systems

You have an easy time building trusting relationships and thrive working both independently and together with others. We place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

A certificate of good conduct (extract from the criminal record) is required for the position.

Employment Terms

Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer.
Start date: According to agreement.
End date: 2027-06-30.

Welcome warmly to Östra Göinge Municipality – Scania's green heart!

Selection and interviews take place continuously, which means the position may be filled before the application deadline. Therefore, do not wait to submit your application.

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Current salary statistics can be found here: www.ostragoinge.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-med-oss/lonestatistik (http://www.ostragoinge.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-med-oss/lonestatistik)

At Östra Göinge Municipality, we strive for an equal gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, welcoming applicants from different backgrounds.

Östra Göinge Municipality applies smoke-free working hours.

In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a stand regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We kindly but firmly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.