Commodity Strategic Purchaser at SAAB Grintek

• The Commodity Strategic Purchaser is responsible for the end-to-end contractor performance management and strategic sourcing in-line with agreed KPIs.  The role entails coordinating complex contractor performance and strategic sourcing activities and will serve as a key contributor to improving operational efficiency and supporting the ongoing management of SGD’s supplier base.
• The role will be reporting to Manager: Strategic Procurement

Your role:

• Collaboration with Product Owner, Planning, Production, Warehousing, and Quality Assurance, to ensure a smooth holistic understanding of the product and successful alignment of procurement efforts towards the needs of serial production deliveries.
• Responsible for the assembly of teams, coordination, management of prioritization, and the inclusion of resources required to fulfil the internal customer needs.
• Develop strategies to enable on-time delivery of outsourced/sub-contracted manufacturing requirements.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external customers.
• Identify and qualify potential suppliers.
• Conduct negotiations, including but not limited to price, delivery, and terms and conditions.
• Understand and apply contractual terms and conditions.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and cost savings in the procurement process.

Assist in Supplier Selection and Evaluation:

• Assist in in evaluation of potential suppliers.

Inventory Management:

Risk Management:

• Identifying potential risks in the supply chain and developing mitigation strategies.
• Ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

Cost Management:

• Monitoring and controlling procurement costs.
• Implementing cost-saving initiatives and optimizing purchasing processes.

Supplier Relationship Management:

• Maintaining healthy relationships with suppliers.
• Regular interaction with suppliers to provide OTD and Quality feedback

Reporting and Analysis:

• Tracking procurement performance metrics and generating reports.
• Analyzing procurement data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.

Your profile
Required Knowledge:

• Good knowledge of supplier markets, customer requirements and business intelligence in general.
• Knowledge about strategic procurement, production planning, manufacturing and project management processes.

Required Experience:

• At least 5 years of strategic sourcing, contracts management and project management experience.
• 10 years of related experience, with at least 5 years of procurement, strategic procurement and project management experience.
• Verifiable experience in contractor performance management, strategic sourcing and project management.
• Supplier relationship management, effective stakeholder engagement and strategic sourcing.
• An understanding of the Occupational Health and Safety Act
• Good understanding of relevant Commercial Law, International Commercial law, Export and Import Control regulations, INCO terms and fiduciary responsibilities.
• Ability to work independently in delivering complex market analysis, strategic sourcing, negotiation, contracts management, cost, variance, root cause and risk analysis
• Ability to apply good technical and commercial judgement and to develop and execute medium to long-term development of strategic business relationships
• Benchmarking, best practices and key learning implementation
• Development, analysis and optimisation of Process Flows in a complex manufacturing and engineering environment
• Lean Manufacturing Principles

Competencies:

• Demonstrated leadership abilities.
• Ability to challenge existing ways of working and implementing improvement initiatives.
• Communication skills, be able to clearly and succinctly convey information.
• Verifiable experience in contractor performance management, operational sourcing and project management.
• Supplier relationship management, effective stakeholder engagement and operational sourcing.
• Ability to work independently in delivering complex market analysis, strategic sourcing, negotiation, contracts management, cost, variance, root cause and risk analysis
• Ability to apply good technical and commercial judgement and to develop and execute medium to long-term development of strategic business relationships
• Benchmarking, best practices and key learning implementation
• Development, analysis and optimisation of Process Flows in a complex manufacturing and engineering environment
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing Principles

Required Skills:

• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Professionalism and strong work ethic
• Oral and written communications skills

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management / Logistics 
• A post graduate qualification by the Charted Institute of Procurement & Supply 

Deadline:17th July,2026