Caterpillar Propulsion wants to strengthen the Strategic Purchasing department. Strategic Purchasing has an international engagement to support our two production sites in Sweden and Singapore. Our responsibility is to develop and maintain our supplier base, ensuring efficient delivery of services and materials at the right quality and cost.

Main responsibilities

As a Strategic Purchaser you are responsible to set strategies in terms of supplier negotiations, supplier selection, supplier relations and risk management. Your work is focused on quality and your collaboration with our suppliers is tight and long-term. You need to have an eye for market trends, keep updated on the market situation and contribute to the departments over all development. In collaboration with the design department and the marketing company you will contribute to ensure that Caterpillar Propulsion has a holistic sourcing solution. Our business is highly technically oriented and we believe that you have a strong technical background and understanding as well as an aptitude for purchasing.

Main responsibilities• Sourcing roadmap within appointed commodity; strategy, supplier base analysis, potential risks, contingency planning, recommendations and alignment to technical/market roadmap• Develop and strengthen supplier base and ensure necessary agreements are in place with focus on terms of quality, capacity, cost and risk management• Negotiating agreements to establish a good supply chain and ensuring validity of agreements and price lists • Implement new strategic suppliers through assessment and company procedure• Represent the sourcing area in development projects

Your ApplicationThis recruitment is carried out in collaboration with Randstad Professionals. You are welcome to contact responsible recruitment consultant Susanne Areschoug for more information about the position by phone: +4672 98 89 422 or email: pontus.adolfsson (at) randstad.se.

Send your application as soon as possible but no later than Mars 20, 2016.

Required qualifications

We are looking for a person who has approximately 2-5 years of experience of strategic purchasing or engineering experience with close connection to supplier handling within a global manufacturing company. You have a diploma within Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Economics or similar. You have experience within the manufacturing environment or other relevant area (marine industry is meritorious) and therefore good technical understanding. Good knowledge of any of the areas forging, casting, hydraulics, electronics and/or fabrications. In this role it is required that you are proficient in English – written and spoken. International background or experience is a great merit.

Your personal qualities

As a person you are self-motivated, business-minded, results-oriented and curious with an eagerness to continue to learn and develop. You also possess the ability to work independently without strict guidelines in a dynamic environment. You have strong negotiation skills, strong social skills and easily build successful relationships with stakeholders as well as colleagues.

About Randstad Professionals

Starting out as a small Swedish shipyard in 1912, Caterpillar Propulsion today is a full-scale global operation. Caterpillar Propulsion develops and produces high performance propellers and propulsion systems for ocean-going commercial ships and workboats around the globe – with a focus on controllable pitch propellers, thrusters, and control solutions providing customer service from a single source. Our special expertise is innovative hydrodynamics to ensure heavy-duty, reliable performance for our customers. Caterpillar Propulsion has production facilities in Sweden and Singapore and a number of marketing offices around the globe. www.

Timmar per vecka: Tillsvidare Tillsvidare

Arbetsgivare Namn: Caterpillar Propulsion

Arbetsgivare adress: Andvägen 26 47540 Hönö

Form av kontakt:
Susanne Areschoug titel : telefon 1: +46 72-988 94 30() telefon 2: () mobil: e-post:

Jobb kort beskrivning: Buyers

Land: Sweden

Område: Västra Götalands län

Avtalstid: Permanent

Typ av kontrakt: Full time

Källa till jobberbjudande: Public Employment Service of Sweden(AMS)

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