Senior Strategic Buyer

We are looking for a Strategic Buyer for a company in Gothenburg. Start is in January 2026, 6 months limited contract to begin with.

The purchasing team is a small team with very close collaboration with their business teams. They work with broad and varied portfolios and often handled cases outside of their normal scope. Also as a Senior Buyer you need to be prepared to work very hands on, and also support in more tactical and operational tasks.

Activies include

• Proactive communication with relevant stakeholders and analysis of spend data, to identify business needs and plan relevant sourcing and negotiation activities accordingly.

• Perform relevant sourcing projects and contract negotiations to achive cost reduction targets, anchoring with all relevant stakeholders (Business, legal, finance, etc).

• Govern and follow-up contracts and suppliers, monitoring performance, and mitigating risks.

• Ensure purchasing involvement and that sourcing, agreements, and purchase requests are handled in compliance with policies, directives, and processes.

• Prepare and present decision material, and secure appropriate documentation is in place for future track reckord.

• Review incoming purchase request to make sure they have been managed appropriately.

• Develop, document, and communicate the way of working in the category, such as buying guides, templates, etc, to enable efficient and qualitative sourcing and purchase operations.

• Contribute to general development and continuous improvement of the Procurement function and way of working, incl development of new tools, general templates and processes.

Role requirements

• Minimum 3-5 years in similar role.

• Industry expertise (supplier market in relevant categories).

• Contracts review experience (legal training and many years of contract negotiations required) .

• Advanced negotiations.

• Project Management and presentation to senior management.

• Very strong collaboration and communications skills.

• Driving towards results / Very result oriented.

• Strong communications, presentation & influencing skills.

• Problem solving, Analytical skills, and Solution orientation.

• Advanced user in PPT & Excel.

• Experience of SAP Fiori for procurement is a plus. This is a full-time consultant position in Gothenburg through Incluso. Start is in January 2026 , 6 months limited contract to begin with.  Please submit your CV as soon as possible since we will review the applications on an on-going basis.

For more information about this role, please contact Emma Hörnsten,  recruiter at Incluso.