Sourcing Specialist hos Getinge Disinfection i Växjö

About this opportunity

In our Surgical Workflows/Infection Control business area, we design and develop sterilizers, disinfectors, and operating room equipment used in hospitals around the world. Our tools are crucial for infection control, and we take great pride in delivering world class equipment to our customers and patients.

The Sourcing department is responsible for delivering commercial advantage to the organizations by managing supplier base to generate cost improvements, securing resilience to the supply chain and maintain defined level of logistic and quality performance. The team is distributed across our Infection control manufacturing sites in Växjö, Sweden and Poznań, Poland.

This is an international role, with daily contacts mainly in the Sourcing community, but you will also have frequent interactions with R&D, logistics, procurement, quality and production.

You will report to the Purchasing Director for Infection Control. The position offers a hybrid setup.

What you will do

In this role, your primary responsibility will be to:

• Create and implement strategy to commodity assigned
• Initiate and manage cost savings to improve factory financial results
• Work with suppliers to develop mutual partnership and improve their performance KPI's
• Support R&D during NPD projects including early supplier involvement, and to select and onboard new suppliers
• Cooperate across business areas to drive synergies between factories
• Identify potential improvements in processes and define adjustments to ways of working when needed

Experience in strategic sourcing

• Good understanding of financial aspects of business and logistic implication in global trade

Fluency in Microsoft Office package is required, SAP knowledge is an additional benefit.

Technical background is beneficial to better understand our products.

Experience from Project Management is beneficial.

Fluency in English and Swedish, orally and written.

We believe that you are a person with good communication and withhold a positive mindset. You are clear in your communication and feel comfortable in presenting your ideas to an audience. As a person you take responsibility for you work and delivery and encourage your teammates to do the same, you lead an act by example.

At Getinge we see ourselves as proactive and self-driven in learning and contributing to the continued development of our products and our organization's capabilities. We are Team Players, Forward Thinkers and Game Changers.