IT Sourcing manager / Sr manager
- Application Deadline: March 16, 2025
- Helsinki
- Hybrid
Are you an experienced sourcing professional with a passion for IT procurement? We are looking for you! We appreciate wide experience from sourcing activities in the IT area, for example variety of outsourced services, licenses, SaaS services and IT projects with continuous maintenance. You are a result oriented tough negotiator with a passion for making good deals. You have a winning attitude and you're savings hungry.
Here at K Group, we believe in the power of diverse and motivated teams to achieve our goals, and we are committed to providing our employees with a supportive and inclusive work environment. We are working in a hybrid workplace model where we combine office days and remote work to best suit both the role and the team. Come join our professional team and start building your own kind of career in K group!
About The Role
As a sourcing manager, your responsibilities include
- Supporting stakeholder teams in drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and executing a variety of information technology agreements with legal counsel support when needed and to ensure compliance with the Kesko’s contracting policies and standards.
- Working closely with cross-functional teams (Business team, IT, Legal, Risk, etc.) and other colleagues to solve problems, build partnerships, and close deals quickly.
- Assist with contract administration activities, update, maintain and ensure the accuracy of contract management system.
- Manage and monitor contract lifecycle from end to end (annual clock).
- Manage your responsibility area and actively identify cost-saving opportunities, including eliminating overlapping’s.
- Conduct meetings with internal partners to understand business priorities, provide updates on agreement status, and respond to complex questions on specific agreements and contractual terms.
- Facilitate assigned RFx process including working with stakeholders to identify requirements, facilitate sourcing events and managing vendor selection process.
- Co-operation with Kesko organisations in different industries and in all operating countries.
- The primary responsibility area will be defined based on your expertise.
You are part of the IT Sourcing team. We offer an excellent opportunity to develop your capabilities as well as a vantage point for Kesko's strategic business development projects. We have an excellent and experienced IT Sourcing team to support you succeeding with your tasks.
What We Are Looking For
As a person you have a service-oriented attitude, strong problem-solving skills and a determined persistence through challenges. A team-oriented and collaborative approach to work is a key to succeed in this role, along with a proven ability to start and drive results independently. We also expect you to have a Master or Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years of experience negotiating and drafting a variety of contracts in the area of IT sourcing.
- Proven track record of delivering measurable value through successful contract negotiations.
- Experience in working collaboratively and supporting multiple sourcing initiatives.
- Experience in managing and maintaining strong supplier relationships.
- Experience using procurement data to identify strategic opportunities to improve value.
- Experience in providing consultative sourcing support to internal stakeholders.
- Outstanding interpersonal and customer relationship skills with attention to detail.
- Full working proficiency with Finnish and English written and verbal communication skills.
What We’re Offering to You
- The ability to work in a fast-moving environment where your input really matters.
- Excellent work community support and flexible working opportunities.
- We offer great community support and flexibility in work arrangements. Our hybrid model currently includes one day in the office each week.
- For office days - modern office with several accommodations (e.g., collaboration and break areas throughout the office, gym, health care services, restaurant and cafeteria…) along good connections in Kalasatama, Helsinki.
- Modern work tools and numerous opportunities to learn and network.
- Extensive employee benefits. These include, among others: Culture & sport benefit (ePassi), shopping benefits that apply in K-Group stores and staff shops, own occupational health care services and leisure time accident insurance. You are also entitled to a car benefit according to our company policy.
Why Join Us
At K Group, you get to create solutions that make people’s everyday lives easier, with the strength of data gathered from 1.5 million daily customer encounters. You’ll have your finger on the pulse of our consumer and business customers in the grocery trade, building and technical trade and car trade, and get to take part in various interesting projects.
Our culture encourages reinvention, experimentation, mistakes and learning.
We at K Group value diversity and believe that different backgrounds and perspectives are key to success. We strive to create a work environment where everyone has the opportunity to grow. Equality, non-discrimination, and fairness are our core principles in recruitment, compensation, and career development.
Corporate responsibility is integrated into K Group’s day-to-day activities, and we strive to help our customers make good choices. We want to make life easier for our customers by offering them quality products and services that promote welfare. The focus of our responsibility work is on the welfare of both people and the environment.
Did we spike your interest?
Apply by filling the application form (or adding your cover letter) by 16th March 2025. Kindly include your CV and salary request as well.
For further information about the job, please contact Kim Ohtonen, VP PMO & Sourcing, kim.ohtonen@kesko.fi and tel. +358 50 502 1229 (call 10th March between 11-13 EET) or IT Sourcing Director Jari Eklund, jari.eklund@kesko.fi and tel. +358 50 477 0330 (call 12th March between 10-12 EET).
We proceed with applications as they come in.
Please note that the chosen candidate is required to take a drug test before an employment relationship can be established. In addition, we verify the credit
information of the selected person.
Work with great people
Great Place to Work
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A community of 40 000 employees
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5000 knowledge workers in Finland
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1800 experts at the K Kampus
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400 experts at the Tampere office
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1100 K-ruoka-, K-rauta- and Intersport retailers
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Almost 2 million customer encounters every day
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Operations in 8 countries
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Finland's largest retailer
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Retails sales 14 Billion €
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3 trades: Grocery, Building & technical and Car
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22 000 store employees around Finland
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One of the world's most responsible stores
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1800 asiantuntijaa K-Kampuksella
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400 asiantuntijaa Tampereen toimipisteessä
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1100 K-ruoka-, K-rauta- ja Intersport-kauppiasta
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Lähes 2 miljoonaa asiakaskohtaamista joka päivä
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Toimintaa 8 maassa
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Suomen suurin vähittäiskauppa
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Vähittäismyynti 14 mrd. euroa
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3 toimialaa: Ruokaa, rakentamista ja autoja
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22 000 työntekijää kaupoissa Suomessa
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Yksi maailman vastuullisimmista kaupoista
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40 000 K:laisen yhteisö
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5000 tietotyöläistä Suomessa
About the company
We are more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and 45,000 K-team members with an endless belief in building better commerce, over and over again. We believe in commerce and the strong spirit of entrepreneurship as the cornerstone of a thriving and prosperous society.
Whether your passion lies in cars, construction, customer service, or technology, we constantly have new opportunities for those ready to shape better commerce. Your work leaves a mark on the everyday lives of Finns—how we move, eat, and build. This house never stands still, and you can shape your own career path, moving across industries and companies.
We are the House of Doers, united by an authentic spirit of action. With teamwork and a customer-first mindset, we create better commerce every single day. So let’s roll up our sleeves and get things moving again – LET’S K!
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