Social Administrator, Local Procurement Coordinator Assignment

Lerums kommun · Full-time

Bagges Torg, Lerum, Sweden

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural surroundings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is only 20 minutes away from Gothenburg and is currently facing an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality is committed to ensuring good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate. Dagens Samhälle named Lerum as the winner in the major city municipality category (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas including schools, healthcare and elderly care, finances, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. The Authority Operations division is responsible for administrative authority within social services and consists of seven units, one of which is the administrative unit. The unit is responsible for, among other things, contract administration for the purchase of services from other entities, fee handling, orders, invoice management, mail handling, and social services reception. The unit consists of approximately nine employees who work closely together both within the unit and with the rest of the operations. We support each other and you are expected, if needed, to contribute to reception work and invoice handling. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS The specialized LINK assignment is a new role for us, involving an enhanced focus on contract issues related to purchasing care and elderly care placements. Since the role is new, you will have the opportunity to shape and develop the approach based on the operations' needs. You will contribute to quality assuring and developing the procurement of purchased placements within Lerum Municipality's social services. • You are responsible for reviewing and establishing contracts for the operations' purchased placements and ensuring that accompanying documentation is quality assured. • You systematically follow up on and improve how the operations work with contract management and its financial effects. • You are responsible for developing and monitoring procedures within your assignment area. • You serve as support to other operations on contract and procurement matters and conduct training initiatives. • Your role includes supporting contract negotiations and, when needed, participating in supplier contacts. • You will also be part of the Gothenburg region's network for local procurement coordinators. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone with post-secondary education in administration, law, or procurement, as well as experience with contract matters and invoice handling. You speak and write Swedish fluently, have a good ability to understand legal texts, and have good knowledge of Excel and the Office package. We would appreciate if you have experience with public procurement, contract drafting, and contract interpretation. You should also have good knowledge of social services legislation, such as SoL, LSS, HSL, OSL, and LOU, preferably with a focus on social law. You have a good ability to understand and follow up on financial processes. The role requires independence and the ability to drive improvement work for quality-assured contract management. You are curious, learn quickly, and want to develop tools, methods, and working approaches. To thrive in this role, you need to be able to plan and structure your work, independently drive processes forward, and identify the core of problems and propose solutions. You also have a good ability to absorb information, remember details, and see connections in complex information. The role requires good social competence and the ability to actively contribute to initiating and maintaining good collaborative relationships to achieve common goals. You will conduct training initiatives and develop informational materials, which requires good pedagogical and communication skills, both verbally and in writing. Since the role is new, you need to be able to handle that it is still being shaped. You also need to be comfortable working independently, as there is no other equivalent role in the municipality. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis. Employment form: Fixed-term employment. Duration: 6 months or longer, start date: 2026-11-02, end date: 2027-10-22. Working hours: Daytime. Development in Lerum Municipality must be sustainable, and our governance is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030. We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, the operations, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and harassment. We care about a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee with us, you have access to a range of benefits, including fitness allowance and personnel wellness programs. Lerum Municipality is covered by the Main Agreement HÖK https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html and the collective agreement General Provisions AB https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html. We apply individual and differentiated salary setting, and your individual salary is influenced by both the difficulty level of the position and your competence and experience. In accordance with the pay transparency directive, we have made salary statistics available on our website, and you can find information about our collective agreement, our employee benefits, and the applicable salary range for this position here: https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner Neither the employer nor the job seeker is bound by this information. The information serves only as guidance for you as a job seeker. As an employee at Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use personal Bank-ID in the service for authentication in, for example, system login or other verification. To quality assure the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not by e-mail or paper format. Warm welcome with your application! Regarding this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline contact regarding additional offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.