Procurement Lead Account, Nordics

Be a part of a revolutionary change!

At Swedish Match, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future. Swedish Match is an affiliate of PMI and have been a leader in the industry for more than 200 years.

With huge change comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

In the Nordic region, we are 1,600 employees based in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway working in various functions and teams, and together we are collaborating to deliver a smoke-free Nordics.

Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday, and we’ll give you lots of responsibility. You’ll help us improve, inject innovation, and create new ways of working.

We are now recruiting for a new Procurement Account Lead to join our outstanding Indirect Materials and Services (IM&S) Procurement team, to be based in Stockholm!

Your purpose –

As Procurement Account Lead, you will manage assigned categories as a leader and a strategic point of reference with a commercially focused and customer-centric approach. By providing proactive procurement expertise you will assure, protect and bring value to PMI, at the same time you will collaborate daily with a variety of functional partners to build and deliver plans that meet market needs. You will also play a key role in ensuring the procurement organisation delivers an adaptable and agile partnership that delivers an optimum mix 'product availability-quality-service level-price'.

Your ‘day to day’ –

• Stakeholder Engagement & Customer Centricity: Meet regularly with business partners to build collaborative relationships and to understand their needs and objectives. Align local, regional and global sourcing plans and influence collaborators to deploy global or regional initiatives locally.
• Industry, Market and Supplier Strategy: Apply industry knowledge to regularly benchmark and anticipate business needs for sourcing strategies.
• Demand Management and Sourcing Plans: Translate business requirements into actionable plans by capturing potential long-term opportunities and mitigating risks. Contribute to PMI’s regional and local strategy definition and include global and regional sourcing strategies in local plans.
• Negotiation & Partnership: Master tools to coordinate and steer negotiations and proactively build levers. Align with partners on expected outcomes and foster cross-functional collaboration to implement efficient initiatives like offshoring, outsourcing and process optimization.
• Contractual Framework: Monitor legal templates to encompass local legislative requirements, Business’ needs, IP rights, RSP Principals, company protection and exclusivity clauses. Advise colleagues and internal stakeholders on the impact of relevant clauses for contracting.
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Segment the supply base and establish different types of supplier relationships based on defined criteria. Link supplier capabilities and local business and procurement objectives. Work with key suppliers on value creation and risk reduction initiatives.
• Procurement model & Compliance: Contribute to the Procure-to-Pay process: understand how different functional processes interact with each other and recommend relevant improvements; put in place key control measures and relevant targets to assure Procurement process compliance and efficiency at market/cluster level.

Who we’re looking for -

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds who bring leadership, innovation, and a growth mindset. You’ll thrive in this role if you have:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in procurement sourcing, preferably across Sales & Marketing categories
• Validated experience in Supplier Relationship Management, and evidence of developing beneficial relationships
• Demonstrated experience of delivering proactive and strategic procurement support to partners
• Strong financial and commercial awareness
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• A collaborative, inclusive working style and a passion for achieving excellence together
• Strong work ethic and a self-starter who is comfortable working both as part of a team, as well and acting with autonomy to consistently deliver excellence

What we offer:

Our success depends on the people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join Swedish Match and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to do things differently, experiment and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
• Enjoy flexibility of hybrid way of working - split your time between working from our office or the comfort of your home, where it works best for you in line with business needs.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to create a smoke free future.