Are you eager to continue to develop your leadership skills and make business with a Quality perspective? Do you want to work in an international environment together with a fantastic team and truly believe that the best result always comes from working together? If yes, this might be the right position for you!

We are looking for a Manager for the group Field Quality Purchasing and Cost recovery within the department of Supplier Quality. You will be responsible to lead and support a team of six field quality purchasers and one cost recovery coordinator who are responsible for ordering design improvements from our global supplier base and coordinating field cost recovery activities when suppliers have failed to deliver according to specification. With a balance of quality, cost focus, and speed, the team secures quality-improving design changes for the complete Scania portfolio.

You will be heading a diverse, skilled, and dedicated team of engaged purchasers from several different nationalities, where our diverse competencies are part of our success. We have a great team spirit and support each other.

The complete team is located in and working from the Scania Purchasing office in Södertälje. We are in a modern work office landscape with the possibility to work from home some days of the week.

As Manager of Field Quality Purchasing, your focus is to create the prerequisites for your team to succeed in an evolving and complex environment. You, and your team, secure the introduction of quality improvement design changes at the right cost and capacity levels.

You will represent your team, the department, Purchasing, or Scania on various occasions and in a global environment, e.g. in process development meetings in TRATON Group. You will coach your colleagues and team members in day-to-day challenges and their personal development.

Since we work with all physical products that Scania offers on the market a good general technical understanding of both product and suppliers’ production processes is needed as well as commercial skills.

Your work includes plenty of interactions internally, within the VW group, with suppliers and cross-functionally and hence important that you naturally collaborate with others, build trust, and are clear in communication. Good language skills in English is a must and Swedish is considered a merit.

You will be part of our management team responsible for supplier audits, supplier quality engineers in production units, and the escalation team.

If you would like to find out more about the position, please contact me as the hiring manager, Magnus Lagström +46 8 553 50406 or Babel Barisho Talent Acquisition Specialist at +46 700 814655

Your application should include CV and cover letter. The application is open until 2023-05-08. Applications will be handled throughout the application period.

About Scania

Scania is a world-leading provider of transport solutions. Together with our partners and customers we are driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system. In 2022, we delivered 80,238 trucks, 4,994 buses as well as 13,400 industrial and marine power systems to our customers. Net sales totalled to over SEK 170 billion, of which 21 percent were services related. Founded in 1891, Scania now operates in more than 100 countries and employs some 57,000 people. Research and development are mainly concentrated in Sweden. Production takes place in Europe and Latin America with regional product centres in Africa, Asia and Eurasia. Scania is part of TRATON GROUP. For more information visit: www.scania.com