Product Assortment and Contract Manager for Assistive Devices, Malmö

REGION SKÅNE · plný úvazek

Region Skåne, Malmö, Švédsko

Make a difference. Every day. Do you have experience with procurement or coordination? Would you like to help ensure that Region Skåne's patients receive the best possible assistive devices? We are looking for a product assortment and contract manager for the assistive devices business area (VO) in Malmö! Take the opportunity to become part of a dedicated team driven by development, improvement, and helping patients find the right assistive devices. The assistive devices operations constitute a business area (VO) within the Psychiatry, Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices department, responsible for all assistive device areas financed by Region Skåne. This includes assistive devices for people with mobility, vision, hearing, communication, and cognitive impairments, medical treatment aids, orthopedic technical devices, and pharmaceutical-related products. The assortment unit is part of the order/logistics area and is responsible for order and material flow throughout the operations. This also includes the Customer Service, Operations Support, and Logistics units. The assortment unit holds responsibility for assortment and contract management across different assistive device areas and for assistive device guidelines. We lead procurement work and monitor contracts, assortments, and guidelines to ensure that Region Skåne's patients receive the right products. We currently have nine product assortment and contract managers. Your nearest colleagues all have healthcare education as their foundation and may represent different professional categories such as nurse, occupational therapist, speech-language pathologist, dietitian, physiotherapist, and audiologist, creating a dynamic group. Expertise is shared across professions to strengthen delivery reliability for patients. The unit actively works with transparency to promote employee participation. 1 position(s). TASKS We are now seeking a new colleague for a parental leave cover position of approximately one year. As a product assortment and contract manager, you are responsible for both strategic and operational work within your assortment area, which in this position covers medical treatment devices for respiratory care. You are the link between the assistive devices operations, healthcare, and the supplier market. This means you are responsible for coordinating procurement work, implementing the contract, and continuous contract monitoring in close collaboration with the procurement department. You also actively contribute to operations development and work with improvements related to the prescribed assortment provided to Region Skåne's patients. You are responsible for ongoing assortment work, which includes further developing the assortment, collaborating with prescribers, and preparing documentation for financial monitoring. Additionally, you conduct environmental monitoring, ensure proper data maintenance, and manage supplier contacts. The work is conducted in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. The operations are based on LEAN philosophy and have created a structure where all employees participate in local pulse and improvement meetings. In these meetings, deviations and improvements are addressed based on established processes. The perspective is customer-centric, where the customer is primarily the prescriber and the end customer is the patients. There is an opportunity for remote work up to two days per week when operations permit. Please note that this posting is published under several different professional categories linked to a main posting. You may subsequently be directed further when you apply for the job. QUALIFICATIONS We welcome you if you are a licensed nurse or physiotherapist, biomedical engineer, or have other education that the employer deems relevant for the position. You have good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing, and as the work is performed administratively, good knowledge of the Microsoft Office package, particularly Excel, is necessary. It is a merit to have clinical experience, experience working with medical technical equipment/respiratory aids, and good knowledge of MDR and regulations applicable to the current product area. If you additionally have experience with procurement, purchasing, and contracts in public sector operations as well as supplier contacts, this is positive. To thrive in the role, you are structured, solution-oriented, and flexible, and possess strong collaboration skills. You are equally comfortable working independently as in a team, and since the work is conducted in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, you are communicative and pedagogical in your approach. A driving force for you is creating and maintaining relationships with various collaboration partners. Furthermore, you enjoy work driven by continuous improvements. We value engagement and a positive attitude toward work; therefore, we also emphasize your personal qualities and expect you to share Region Skåne's values: welcoming, driving, caring, and respectful. Does this sound like a position for you? We welcome your application. We look forward to getting to know you. We apply continuous selection and plan to hold interviews during weeks 39 and 40. Employment type: Fixed-term position. Duration: 6 months or longer, Start date: Start date by agreement. The cover position runs from 2026-12-15 to 2027-12-31. Region Skåne exists so that everyone living in Skåne feels well and confident about the future. Through boundless collaboration and caring, we create the best conditions for a healthy life in business, public transportation, culture, and healthcare in Skåne. Together we make life more possible. Psychiatry, Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices is the second largest department with operations throughout Skåne. We have a broad mission where many different competencies together provide our patients with the best care and support. With curiosity and great interest, we also invest in development and research. At https://www.skane.se/ledigajobb you can see the status of Region Skåne's recruitments and how many have applied for the positions. If you have protected personal information, you should contact the contact person specified in the posting so that your application is handled according to special procedures. When you apply for a job at Region Skåne, your application becomes a public document under the principle of public access to official records. Information is processed and stored in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 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