Sourcing Manager at Vattenfall Power Solutions

Vattenfall AB · Full-time

Uppsala, Sweden

Company Description Business Unit (BU) Vattenfall Power Solutions is a business unit with approximately 700 employees within Business Area (BA) Vattenfall Generation that trains personnel in Swedish nuclear power, delivers nuclear fuel to Vattenfall's nuclear power plants, develops and implements projects and assignments, and provides internal technical specialist services to all of Vattenfall's operations, corporate staffs, and stakeholders. This includes activities such as developing and providing training, project management and project support, analysis management and investigations, product development, and nuclear technical safety and dam safety assignments. Focus within the Vattenfall Power Solutions business unit is to develop our capabilities in project management and selected key technical disciplines. We actively work with continuous improvement initiatives and development of our models, where our work and expertise create great value for Vattenfall and its investments. About the Role Would you like to combine strategic sourcing within consultant procurement with business development and long-term supplier partnerships? We are seeking two Sourcing Managers for Vattenfall Power Solutions, one positioned on the west coast and one on the east coast. Here you will have a central role in ensuring access to external expertise and contributing to our long-term delivery capability. You will work closely with our technical operations, suppliers, and Vattenfall's procurement organization. Together, you will translate the operation's competence and resource needs into commercial, sustainable, and feasible sourcing solutions. You will monitor developments in the consultant market, create structure in complex needs, and develop partnerships with strategically important suppliers. The area is responsible for sourcing, strategic resource procurement, and management of external technical consultants. We are in a development phase where the assignment is growing and new ways of working, processes, and collaborations are taking shape. This gives you the opportunity to contribute your experience and help shape the area's continued development. Your Work Tasks As a Sourcing Manager, you will work strategically, tactically, and to some extent operationally. You will, among other things: Analyze the operation's current and future needs for external expertise. Develop sourcing and supplier strategies based on long-term operational needs. Ensure quality of consultant needs together with ordering operations. Communicate needs, forecasts, and strategic direction to relevant suppliers. Monitor and analyze the consultant market as well as suppliers' capacity and development. Establish and develop relationships with strategically important suppliers. Handle commercial matters concerning agreements, prices, terms, and supplier selection. Collaborate with Vattenfall's procurement function and category managers. Contribute to the development of processes, working methods, and system support within the area. The role has many contact points and gives you the opportunity to build a broad network within technical operations, procurement, and the supplier market. You will have clear personal responsibility and the opportunity to influence solutions that are important for Vattenfall's long-term delivery capability. We know that our employees are the key to our success. For us, your development is important, and therefore we will always encourage you to use your knowledge and give you opportunities to develop through new challenges, training, and knowledge transfer. With us, you will have the confidence to act with great freedom and personal responsibility, which together with good working conditions and mutual trust provides high flexibility and balance between work and private life. Requirements Specification We are looking for someone who combines business acumen and strategic thinking with an inclusive and relationship-building approach. You thrive in collaborating across organizational boundaries and can create structure and progress even when multiple perspectives need to be weighed together. To succeed in the role, you have: Relevant academic education in engineering or equivalent work experience. Experience with sourcing, supplier management, consultant procurement, or a similar operations-related field. Experience driving complex matters together with multiple internal and external stakeholders. Experience with commercial matters and business-oriented supplier dialogues. Experience independently driving assignments to completion and leading or coordinating others in the work. Good ability to communicate in Swedish and English. Driver's license category B. It is meritorious if you have experience from energy, industry, or other technology-intensive operations. We would also like to see that you have worked closely with technical consultant suppliers or a procurement function and have experience with formal management responsibility, coordination responsibility, or management responsibility. As a person, you build trust through professional and clear communication. You create trusting long-term relationships, see the bigger picture, and can balance different interests. You also feel comfortable making business-oriented assessments and driving work forward together with others. Additional Information In addition to being part of shaping tomorrow's smart energy society, we offer you stimulating and varied work with many contact points. For us at Vattenfall, it is important that work and private life have a good balance, which is why we offer flexibility in work and the opportunity to work from home when needed. We also offer a number of other employee benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave supplements, and more. Learn more about our benefits here. Placement location for the west coast position is Gothenburg or Ringhals. Placement location for the east coast position is Solna, Uppsala, Gävle, or Forsmark. Travel is a natural part of the role, especially within the geography that the role covers, but we actively work with technical tools to reduce these trips. For further information about the position, you are welcome to contact recruiting manager Fanny Ladeborn, 070 319 75 74 or [email protected]. For questions about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Åsa Vallin, [email protected]. Trade union representatives for this position are Gustaf Treiber (Akademikerna), Jörgen Von Ubisch (Ledarna), Robert Lönnqvist (SEKO), Jan Stigbert (Unionen). All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard 08-739 50 00. Welcome to submit your application by September 16, 2026. We do not accept personal letters in the application.