Category Lead Temporary Agencies

About the job

Do you want to shape the future of fossil-free living within one generation using your experise in procurement? We are planning to design and implement a brand new Vendor Management System. Therefor we are keen to meet your pragmatic vision, ideas and best practises.

Get in touch if you are interested in this 'once in a lifetime' challenge to create, build and deliver a state of the art tool and develop further & implement supplier strategy and total workforce management!

For our Contingent Workforce team within Indirect Procurement we are now looking for an experienced and ambitious Category lead – Temporary labor & flex agencies.

  In today’s challenging and tight market conditions, Vattenfall’s ability to attract talent not only permanent but also contingent for the right costs is more crucial than ever. Procurement is one of the fundamental levers to maximize value we get from our capital and operational expenditures. Although big steps have been accomplished over the last years, we will have to take additional steps in our procurement journey to be able to deliver on increasingly demanding and our challenging environment.

As Category Lead Temporary labor you will support the demand in this category for the whole Vattenfall Group across our regions. You will work in an outstanding commercial and international environment and have a significant impact on Vattenfall realising its transition to a more sustainable energy portfolio by securing and managing our temporary labor category at best value for the company.

What will you do?

In this role you will be the procurement lead for this area and interface towards all Vattenfall’s Business Areas and Staff Functions and run the category planning and business dialogue processes with them. One of your main stakeholders will be our HR - Resource Management Centre (RMC). This central organized unit is handle all our Time-Material consultants across our regions on a day to day basis, supported by our external MSP’s, brokers and other third parties.

Main responsibilities: 

• Define a Temporary labor & flex agencies strategy with a short, medium and long-term view. The category encompasses a spend of approximately Euro 200 Mio;

• Develop the supplier strategy e.g. relationship development, performance  management;

• Providing insights regarding the service and category;

• Provide relevant market expertise (commercial and procurement) for a range of procurement activities within the business;

• Pro-actively build relationships on all levels and sell the value of procurement and our processes;

• Manage the creation and delivery of cost saving initiatives and tooling within the category;

• Ensure the supplier selection, procurement and contract management process is aligned with the category strategy adequately protecting the company from regulatory, reputational and financial risks;

• Responsible for annual category spend.

Location:

We work 51% at the office, 49% hybrid. Our team is located in Stockholm, Amsterdam and Berlin. Mirroring the activities of the key stakeholders, the successful candidate for this role will be based in Sweden.  

Your profile

Who are you?

We believe that you suit perfectly to this role if you are passionate about the energy transition and want to make a difference with your excellent procurement expertise. Besides that you bring:

• A relevant University degree (or equal) and minimum of 10 years’ Sourcing experience in the Contingent Workforce- or related categories.

• Solid expertise in temporary labor area and demonstrable experience across the procurement skillset and experience of the procurement processes.

• Experience in managing Sourcing categories of significant spend. Experience in managing categories across regions and cultures.

• Strategic supplier management experience.

• Good understanding of people and culture in working across multiple business functions and locations.

• Ability to simplify complexity and to identify “the 20% of the scope that drives 80% of the results”.

• Co-operative team player with solid interpersonal skills.

• Strong consultancy skills and able to support, advise, guide and challenge across all aspects of Procurement.

• Experience in solving with strategic issues / problems and strategy development.

• Strong initiative with a high sense of responsibility and willingness to perform.

• Strong negotiator

• Ability to travel

• Your command of English is fluent , both verbally and written

Personal Characteristics
We believe that the person we are looking for is curious with an open mind and good learning ability. You are analytical and have a strong belief in fact-based and data-driven decision making. You are a team player who `brings energy and is eager to contribute to other employees and stakeholders, bringing out their maximum potential by being passionate and driven about adding value to the team and business.

Additional information

We offer
In addition to helping you shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. With our career and development model, we want to create clarity in which opportunities you have to develop in the direction you want. It is important that the whole life works and therefore we are keen that our employees experience a good balance between work and leisure. 

You will work in a new, open, energetic, trustful and ambitious international team environment.

Location  
Preferred location is Stockholm area.

For more information about the position, please contact our recruiter Jurriaan Rang via email: jurriaan.rang@vattenfall.com. See also Vattenfall.com for more gereral information about Vattenfall.

We welcome your application in English. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website. 
 
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 gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation. 

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is one of Sweden's largest electricity grid companies and supplies electricity to approximately 850,000 private and business customers. Read more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se

We look forward to receiving your application! 

About the company

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.