Senior Buyer

4 days ago

Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden Professional Galaxy AB Full time 80,000 - 120,000 per year

Assignment description

The role Buyer is part of client's global Indirect Purchasing (IDP) organization. You have the responsibility to drive the work of securing short & long-term sourcing strategies, identify new supplier/technologies and the development of existing supplier relationship. Your initial focus will be to support the Global Event team and clients Sales Units in the European markets with all their

Event with their needs together with the business/stakeholders.

Assignment description and main responsibilities

  • Perform sourcing for bought-in services across the business with a strong focus on European Marketing & Communication organization needs related to Event, Test Drives, Partnerships and Influencers needs in EMEA
  • Perform procurement according to defined strategies and frameworks.
  • Negotiate commercial and legal agreements. Create Service agreements.
  • Review purchase requisitions and identify and select contract/suppliers in accordance with defined strategies and agreements.
  • Advise stakeholders on procurement issues, providing support and guidance at all stages of the procurement cycle as well as on modifications in requests. Improve collaboration with stakeholders and together towards common goals.
  • Track key performance indicators on supplier and stakeholder contract compliance; define and take corrective actions to improve contracts compliance and continuously track supplier performance on quality and cost.
  • Perform necessary market analysis to support the sourcing activity.
  • Create and maintain commercial relations with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
  • Initiate and conduct supplier evaluations and supplier audits.

Deliveries:

  • Project cost summary and report
  • Sourcing status summary and report
  • Understand services to be sourced
  • Prepare the potential supplier list and present the list to stakeholders
  • Prepare RFQ, send out RFQ, negotiate and secure best supplier choice
  • Prepare the presentation of supplier choice and present to management -business case
  • On board suppliers after supplier selection
  • Negotiate contracts
  • Place purchasing orders, make change orders and follow up with payment

Competence requirements

  • The candidate has an educational background in business administration, finance, purchasing or similar.
  • A minimum of 5 years of work experience in Indirect Purchasing preferably having worked with Marketing Services purchase categories.
  • Skilled in negotiations and in creating Service Agreements.
  • High focus on personal traits such as excellent communication- and peoples' skills.
  • Quickly understand internal stakeholders needs and be service minded. Flexible and can quickly be on top of terminology, and our way of working and always ready to change his/her way of working in order to find the best solution.
  • Used to handle many different projects and lots of data at the same time and work in a very structured and timely manner.
  • Fluent in English both written and spoken. German and any other European language is a plus.
  • Accustomed to working in a global environment with people of various cultural backgrounds.
  • Highly skilled in MS Office especially Excel. Experience of working in purchase-/administrative tools & systems preferably SRM, Fieldglass and/or Workday is a great advantage.

Start date:

End date: , with possibility to extend the assignment

Location: Gothenburg

Required skills-

Automotive , Workday , Indirect Purchasing  ,buyer  ,Negotiation ,Service Level Agreements , Marketing services , Fieldglass

Preferred skills -German

Languages-English(Proficient)

Application deadline-10 Nov 2025

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