Sourcing Manager Technical Consultants

at  Vattenfall

DO YOU WANT TO BE AN ENABLER OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TRANSITION THROUGH ELECTRIFICATION?

We are now looking for a Sourcing Manager to join our team of +15 procurement professionals. The team is functionally divided into a strategic team of Category Managers and SRM Specialist, and a tactical team of +7 Sourcing Managers tendering construction projects, employer provided material for projects and making call-offs under existing framework agreements.
Jointly we support Vattenfall Distribution including Gotlands Elnät in fulfilling their respective targets for both CAPEX and OPEX, and thereby enabling climate transition through electrification of industries and households.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant academic education, preferably B. Sc. Engineering, M.Sc. Engineering, or equivalent (including non-academic education)
• 2-5 years of relevant working experience as Sourcing Manager for project procurement in the energy, utilities or infrastructure industry
• Knowledge of different services and consultancy general terms and conditions like ABK 09
• Experience with supplier tender management including tender administration, supplier communication, clarification of bids, negotiation, contract formation etc.
• Experience with tender design and negotiation management of services and consultancy tenders
• English and Swedish language skills with a minimum of professional working proficiency

OPTIONAL EXPERIENCES AND SKILLS

• Knowledge of EU tender law (LUF in Sweden).
• Experience from sourcing tools like e-Avrop or Mercell TendSign
• Knowledge of energy business, understanding of the business regulation and boundary conditions of a regulated DSO
• Knowledge of different goods and services general terms and conditions like NL/Orgalime/ABM
• Knowledgeable of different construction general terms and conditions like ABx/ABTx/FIDIC

OM OSS

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.
Business Unit Distribution Sweden operates the largest electricity distribution network in Sweden. We connect new network customers and also maintain and invest in our network assets to give our customers a high quality supply 24/7. In addition to this, we measure and report our customer’s electricity consumption and generation. We are an efficient electricity distributor with quality of supply exceeding stakeholders’ expectations, and an enabler of sustainable energy.
Gotlands Elnät operates the electricity distribution network on Gotland and other utility services in the island of Gotland

• Engage with stakeholders to establish transparency with sufficient planning horizon for fulfillment of sourcing of technical consultant assignments and packages
• specifically Project Managers in asset investment functions related to topics pertaining to procurement of equipment and material provided to construction projects and construction projects
• specifically technical area managers in asset management organizations related to topics pertaining to procurement of material used in the operations and maintenance phase of our assets
• Coordinate and drive tender processes and relevant parts of the same scope of supply specifications, technical tender specifications, administrative tender specifications, tender administration, supplier communication, tender evaluation, tender clarification and supplier negotiation and contract formation
• Align with Category Managers in the team to ensure that existing category strategies and generic sourcing strategies are adhered to
• Align with Sourcing Managers in the team to ensure that existing processes and tools, best practices in project procurement are applied and that synergies are exploited
• Support Project Managers and other stakeholders in setting up and performing a supplier tender process using established sourcing tools to successfully fulfil asset investment demand