Procurement Excellence Manager
- Application Deadline: April 10, 2023
- Solna
At Adapteo, we develop and provide climate smart buildings with constant innovation for sustainability in mind, taking responsibility throughout the entire value chain. We foresee a strong growth in the coming years and intend to further strengthen our business and market position in Europe. We are now looking for an experienced Procurement Excellence Manager to come and join us on our exciting growth journey and our mission of building adaptable societies. In this role you will lead and facilitate transformation and value creation of Adapteo Procurement and be a part of Adapteo’s Group Procurement function.
Let Us Describe What We Do
Adapteo is the leading adaptable space partner in Northern and Central Europe, owned by Goldman Sachs. We develop, build, rent out and sell adaptable buildings for schools, day cares, events, offices and accommodation. With a modular and circular building solution, customers can transform, repurpose, scale up and scale down based on their changing needs. Our modular solutions are rented out repeatedly, creating circular flows that minimize the use of material and contribute to a circular economy. With an ambitious sustainability agenda, we aim to lead the way to a more sustainable future for the industry.
What You Will Do
This new role will focus on leading and facilitating transformation and value creation of Adapteo Procurement. You will plan, and drive implementation of different types of projects as a key part of this role, such as:
- Lead roll-out and continuous improvement of activity-based-pricing in subcontracting across Adapteo Group, including supporting and tracking business unit level value creation
- Facilitate group-wide benchmarking and regular best practice exchange across business units
- Act as cross-business unit and cross-functional facilitator
- Define and implement common standards for procurement processes, methods and tools
- Drive digitalization and professionalization of procurement across Adapteo; design and manage procurement digitalization roadmap; select and implement appropriate tools and solutions
- Support category managers in analytics and methods selection
- Support sourcing managers in establishing standards at business unit level
- Design and deliver skill building and training programs for procurement team members
- Establish and manage a KPI framework to measure performance of procurement processes and teams
Skills & Requirements
Who You Are
To succeed in this role, we believe that you have strong communication and collaboration skills and a deep analytical skillset. You work in a structured yet flexible way, which will enable you to succeed in this role due to the dynamic and fast-paced working environment which Adapteo offers.
In addition, we believe that you have:
- University degree in engineering, business management or equivalent
- Preferably experience with subcontracting procurement and activity-based pricing approach and/or experience from construction or assembly industry
- Profound knowledge of procurement tools, guidelines and best practices; particularly with state-of-the-art digital procurement solutions and their leverage
- Good understanding of procurement performance management and associated KPIs, methods and tools
- Digital skills and ambition to use new tools and efficiencies, in combination with sound knowledge of common office applications
- Experience in process improvement and cost savings analysis
- Excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to build relationships with stakeholders
- Proficient in project management and change management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
A passion for sustainability and a determined mind to improve the society we live in will make you feel that you are in the right place together with us. At Adapteo, you will be part of a cross-functional and international team with English as a natural language for written and spoken communication.
This role will report to the VP Group Procurement, located in Solna/Stockholm, Sweden. Some travelling will be required for this role.
People at Adapteo
We are 500+ individuals with a wide span of competence, working together with three core values always in mind: Proactive – Collaborative – Committed.
How to apply?
If you feel excited about the opportunity to join our team please send in your application or apply by attaching your Linkedin profile, as soon as possible, however on 10th of April at the latest.
We interview candidates continuously and we will finalize the process as soon as we will find the right match for the position.
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please reach out to Talent Acquisition & Empoyer Brand Partner Sonja Paganus: [email protected]
We are looking forward to your application!
Great Place to Work
We contribute to a better future
We accelerate together
We are a solid company with a growth mindset
We love flexibility
Proactive, Collaborative & Committed
About the company
Adapteo is the leading adaptable space partner in Northern Europe. We develop, build, rent out and sell adaptable buildings for schools, daycares, care centres, offices, and accommodation. With our modular and circular building solutions, our customers can transform, repurpose, scale up and scale down based on their changing needs. That is how we build adaptable and sustainable societies (see our circular film here). Adapteo has a building portfolio of 1.3 million square meters and operates in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Lithuania. We currently number about 500 employees with head offices in Stockholm, Sweden and Vantaa, Finland. A majority of our revenues is generated by rental contracts from the public sector.
Adapteo’s core values provide a foundation for our business and our culture. Whether employee, customer or stakeholder, your experience of Adapteo should be of a company that is Proactive , Collaborative and Committed.
testAdapteo operates in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Lithuania.
testPortfolio size ~34,000 building units, ~1,300,000 sq m
testWe are certified according to ISO 9001 and 14001
testThe leading adaptable space partner in Northern Europe
testOur adaptable buildings are usually used as schools, daycare centers, offices, and accommodation, but can also be used as shops, laboratories or health care centres. We are only limited by imagination
testWe can deliver anything from one single classroom to solutions of several thousand square metres
testThrough our two business areas Rental space and Permanent space we can offer anything from short term rentals through to ownership solutions
testSustainability is at the core of our business at Adapteo; we incorporate sustainability aspects in our strategic planning, design, and operations. Our ambition is to become one of the most sustainable companies in the industry and take lead in our field.
Sonja Paganus | Contact Person
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