Director of Procurement Customers

vor 5 Monaten


Hamburg, Deutschland Vattenfall Vollzeit

**Company Description**
Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible within one generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.
**Job Description** About the position**

**As Director of Procurement **Customers & Solutions** in Procurement in CFO Functions** you are responsible for procurement activities in the Heat, BA Customers & Solutions (C&S), in Staff Function Communications and in the Energy solutions across Vattenfall and you will lead a management team with direct reports in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands and United Kingdom.

**Your tasks and responsibilities**

As Director of Procurement Customer & Solutions you will have the following key responsibilities:

- To develop a procurement strategy that is fully aligned with the assigned BAs, BUs and SF’s strategy and to deliver the designed strategy
- Define procurement strategies for emerging markets together with business
- Work together with assigned BAs and SFs to fulfil procurement needs
- To ensure that good and/or services are sourced in a proper sustainable way and delivered at best total cost of ownership available to Vattenfall on the supplier market (Quality/Service/Technology/Price)
- Devise new ways to address in an efficient manner the procurement of low unit price but high frequency purchases (development of frame agreements, strategic distributors)
- Collaborate with Procurement Excellence
- Align with the rest of the procurement team and with other BAs to extract maximum value from joint bundling of volumes, cross BA category management and cross BA supplier management
- Work and align with the assigned BAs, BUs and SFs to ensure good cooperation and deliver highest possible procurement contribution to cost reduction initiatives
- Analysis of suppliers markets and design of distinct strategies to secure the best result for each specific category and market situation.
- Your average total annual spend to be managed will be around 1,5 billion euro. This spend is divided over main categories like District Heating materials and services, Customer related categories like Marketing and Communication, Customer services and Solar and Hydrogen materials and services.
- Lead a management team of around 5 managers with a total number of around 50 employees

**Qualifications** We are looking for a Director of Procurement Customer & Solutions in Procurement in CFO Functions who **has a relevant University degree (or equal), with a minimum of seven years relevant work experience in a similar position. Extensive experience as a leader in a large international organization. You have a documented experience in managing teams in constant changing and challenging environments. Your command of English is strong, both verbally and written.

**Your personal characteristics**:

- Solid understanding of the assigned Business Areas, BUs and Staff Functions
- Pro-active and transparent
- Ability to simplify complexity and to identify “the 20% of the scope that drives 80% of the results”
- Superior interpersonal and communication skills
- Team player who actively engages people by asking, sharing, helping or asking for help
- Strong credibility built through both business insight and leadership
- Strong commercial and analytical skills
- People, performance and results oriented
- Strong negotiator
- As a leader you are open, active, positive and safe. You lead change, you are accountable and you create trust. You are interested in leading business and developing people and teams. You are committed in driving diversity and an inclusive culture.

**Additional Information** Our Offer**:

- We offer a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues as ‘Ask and Share’ concept is essential for the way we work. We offer attractive employment conditions (smart working, flexible working hours and a good-work-life balance) and opportunities for personal and professional development. Click _here_ for further information._

**Location**
Stockholm, Amsterdam, Berlin or Hamburg

Trade Union representatives in Sweden via Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.
Rolf Olsson (Akademikerna) Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna) Juha Siipilehto (SEKO) Jens Morell Unionen

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gende



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