Company description

Vattenfall is one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has around 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming lives through innovation for over a century. We now want to make fossil-free living possible and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is one of Sweden's largest electricity network companies and supplies electricity to 900,000 private and business customers. Read more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se

About the role

We at Vattenfall Eldistribution are growing and we now need a manager for our Contract Management department. The expectations of managing our contracts and ensuring that we get the delivery we have agreed are constantly increasing and are an important part of being able to deliver to our customers. As we invest more, we need more people and more efficient ways to do this.

The Contract Management department is responsible for compiling requirements and needs from across the company to ensure appropriate contracts. We ensure strategic and tactical control and consistent management of our supplier contracts. The department performs overall analysis, development and follow-up to ensure contract compliance, creates opportunities, educates, digitizes and supports the business to become an even better professional buyer.

We are also responsible for keeping an eye on the supplier market to ensure that we buy the right things and get the delivery we want in collaboration with project implementation and purchasing. We are responsible for keeping up-to-date contract documents available internally and externally. We are responsible for keeping an up-to-date contract register. Today we are about 20 people in the department, located in our offices in Solna, Luleå and Trollhättan.

As Head of Department, you will inspire and engage our employees within your assignment responsibility and ensure that set goals are achieved. In your assignment, you and your colleagues will create the conditions for our success by working towards common company and unit goals. The position suits those who see all employees and are happy to handle challenges at the intersection of supplier, customer and society.

Examples of duties

• Leading the department and being the immediate manager of 20-25 employees
• Ensure that the processes and routines we have for how we procure and manage supplier contracts are followed
• Leads and runs the department and develops the employees and together with the process department develops the working methods
• Responsible for maintaining a dialog with the rest of the business so that we can contribute to them within our area of responsibility, as well as having a dialog with and control of our supplier market
• You are good at building and maintaining relationships both internally and externally
• Ensure efficient resource utilization and collaboration both within and outside the department.

Requirements specification

We are looking for you who have a relevant academic degree or equivalent experience working on similar issues in the energy or construction industry. If you have experience of managing similar activities either on the client side or on the contractor side before, it is an advantage. You need to have leadership experience from previous management positions.

You are driven by developing both people and ways of working and have the ability to inspire and make your employees grow and feel involved in the change work together with colleagues within the company. For this position, you need to be solution-oriented, creative and decisive.

You will have many contacts with both internal and external parties, which is why the ability and willingness to collaborate, influence and contribute to the development of the business is important. Furthermore, you will have good communication skills, both written and oral, and feel comfortable taking questions from our partners. In order to communicate your decisions and business challenges, you have the ability to create presentations and reports in both Swedish and English.

Further information

What we offer

In addition to helping shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. We encourage you to move on and explore new areas within the company. With our career and development model, we want to create clarity in the opportunities you have to develop in the direction you want. It's important to make your whole life work, which is why we are committed to ensuring that our employees enjoy a good work-life balance. We believe that diversity and inclusion lead to innovation, improved business performance and increased engagement and we strive to represent the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate. Read more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se

As a manager at Vattenfall Eldistribution you are motivated by driving transformation by:

• Engaging your employees to participate in development work
• Being responsible for raising new business development needs
• Taking clear sponsorship including responsibility for benefit realization for our business development projects
• Responsible for the reception and compliance of new ways of working

Location: Solna, Luleå or Trollhättan

Travel to Vattenfall Electricity Distribution's other locations is included in the role.

For more information about the position, please contact the recruiting manager Staffan Gustavsson, staffan.gustavsson@vattenfall.com

Union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Asim Nokic, Unionen, Ulf Tengman, SEKO. All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard 08-739 50 00.

Take on your next leadership challenge with us and apply no later than October 6, 2024. Selection will take place after the deadline. If you have any questions about your application, please contact recruiter Jessica Petersson jessica.peterssonattenfall.com

Vattenfall is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, thus many of our positions are classified. If this position is security classified, a security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.

We look forward to your application!