Category Manager

Are you a procurement leader ready to elevate your career? Do you excel in leading effective collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, and communicate clearly to ensure outstanding performance? If so, then join us in building top class procurement that ensures that NCC wins and delivers profitable customer projects.

In this newly created role, you will be at the forefront of transforming our approach to the Category Strategy of Staffing & Subcontracting. As the construction industry evolves, so do the challenges of securing sufficient capacity and qualified labor and services. Your strategic vision and leadership will be crucial in navigating these changes and ensuring NCC's long-term success. This is your chance to make a significant impact by developing innovative solutions that address capacity constraints, enhance supplier relationships, compliance and social responsibility.

The role and key responsibilities

As a Category Manager at NCC, you will play a key role in shaping our procurement strategy, staffing and subcontracting. You will lead efforts to develop and implement a common strategy that addresses the challenges of capacity constraints, fragmented planning, securing compliance, and supplier-related risks. Your work will ensure that NCC remains a preferred customer for our suppliers and that we can meet the demands of increasingly large and complex projects.

Your main responsibilities include:

1. Developing and implementing Strategies: Create and execute category strategies for staffing and subcontracting areas that align with NCC's business needs and sustainability goals. Your strategic initiatives will focus on securing long-term capacity and capabilities in a rapidly changing environment.
2. Supplier Management: Secure sourcing together with internal stakeholders in Business Areas, and negotiate with suppliers, ensuring the best terms for cost, quality, and sustainability. Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships to build a resilient and reliable supplier base.
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with production, Business Units, finance, and sustainability teams to ensure a unified approach to capacity planning and procurement. Your ability to foster collaboration across departments will be key to achieving our strategic objectives.
4. Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks related to supplier compliance, business ethics, and labor rights. You will play a critical role in ensuring that our supplier base adheres to the highest standards of integrity and responsibility.
5. Data-Driven Decision Making: Use data insights to evaluate business value, risk, and performance, and to drive continuous improvement in procurement processes. Your analytical skills will help us make informed decisions that support our long-term goals.

About Purchasing at NCC

NCC Purchasing is a network of purchasing professionals across the Nordics working with everything from project purchasing to supplier base development, strategic sourcing and category management. Cooperation in- and between units is key for us to deliver profitable customer projects. You will join the unit Purchasing Development & Digitalization with the mission to pave the way for business-leading purchasing capabilities.

Your experience and background

We believe that you have a Bachelor or Master´s degree in engineering/ business administration or economics. You have at least 5 years' experience from producing companies or related business involving procurement within category and supplier management.

You enjoy leading cross functional teams but are also able to work independently with great commitment. The work requires good interpersonal skills, where good business relationships both internally and externally are key. Furthermore, you have excellent negotiation skills, you are goal-oriented, analytical, and structured and you have extensive experience with large matrix organizations.

This position requires fluency in English and in one of the Nordic languages as well as deep understanding of contract management.

To be successful in this position you have a positive mindset and identify yourself with our values of honesty, trust, and respect.

Additional information

This position can be based in either Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö. The position will require travelling from time to time. This is a permanent position.

In accordance with NCC's safety culture, we conduct background checks on final candidates.

NCC Offers

NCC strives to be an appealing employer, providing a work environment where employees can grow and experience well-being. We offer a wide range of employee benefits. NCC has collective agreements for all employees, providing a solid foundation of security and clear guidelines so that you know what applies to your employment. We also offer excellent opportunities for continued development and a broad range of further education options, allowing for a long career within the company.

Contact and application

For further information on this position please contact recruiting manager Johan Larsson, Acting Manager of Category Management, Group Purchasing, +46 72 371 1850 or Karin Österman de Wall, HR Recruitment Specialist, +46 79 078 7210.

As we are working continuously with the selection process, we kindly ask you to apply as soon as possible, and before May 11.

Are you ready to make a significant impact and grow with us? Submit your application today and become an essential part of our innovative category management team at NCC

Build with us - together with the best colleagues in the industry

At NCC, we are driven to continue developing, whether it's our construction projects or our personal expertise. Every day, we drive the industry's most exciting and complex construction projects forward in close cooperation between our employees, partners and customers. Here, our employees take an active role in a corporate culture based on stable values and behaviors for a safe and secure workplace. Our collective expertise and diverse backgrounds make a difference.

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