Project Buyer

Job Description

Job Title: Project Buyer

Location: Västerås, Sweden

Join Us!!

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Project Buyer to join our Supply Chain team in Sweden.

What will you do?

• Identify new suppliers in cooperation with relevant category team. Qualify new suppliers in-cooperation with Supplier Quality and Engineering specialists.
• Negotiate agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renew pricelists, terms
• Adapt corporate contractual framework to the local business needs. Recommends frame agreements to management and executes upon approval.
• Analyse and evaluate bids to determine the optimal value.
• Supports bid and proposal teams by providing relevant market information.
• Track goods received to verify appropriate delivery and ensure invoice processing.
• Oversee supplier performance (on time delivery, quality, lead time) and resolve performance issues.
• Initiates supply orders in the system, confirms delivery with suppliers, monitors and tracks supplier performance to purchase order requirements.
• Aligns supplier orders with customer requirements (based on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)/project requirements) in terms of content, quality, delivery, sustainability and price.
• Conducts all Supply Chain activities for all goods and services in accordance with policies and procedures

Authority

• Authorized to evaluate suppliers and qualify/disqualify them as per company guidelines
• Empowered to lead and facilitate supplier assessments with project teams, line management, and subcontractors, and to require implementation of necessary preventive and corrective measures
• Authorized to audit suppliers, monitor KPI performance, and report progress SCM objectives to management and relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Fluent Swedish Speaker
• Proactive and curious person with the drive to challenge yourself and the organization for continuous improvement
• Team player with good organization skills and ability to multitask
• Quick learner who is comfortable and enjoy managing several projects and stakeholders in parallel
• Networking skills as well as strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong sense of ownership and entrepreneurial attitude
• Bachelors degree or a University level education, an academic background related to supply chain is a plus
• Professional experience in a supply chain function with background to procurement and sourcing

• Experience in EPC business is preferred

Om Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.

We combine Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge and Atkins Realis’s project management expertise to create a company dedicated to substations - we are Linxon.

Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

To know more about the Linxon please click on the link below.

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At Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.