Senior Procurement Leader Operations

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At Saab Surveillance, Procurement plays a critical role in ensuring delivery capability, supply resilience, competitiveness, and business performance. As part of our Procurement transformation journey, we are strengthening our local procurement organizations and are now looking for a Senior Procurement Leader Operations to take a leading role in developing operational supply performance and strengthening the connection between Production, Planning, Engineering, Operations, and Procurement. We are recruiting for this role at both our Gothenburg and Stockholm sites.

The role offers significant exposure across the organization and the potential to grow into broader leadership responsibilities over time. As Senior Procurement Leader Operations, you will be responsible for developing and leading the site's operational supply capability, ensuring high delivery performance, strong operational coordination, and effective collaboration between Procurement, Production, Planning, and other key stakeholders. You will act as Procurement's primary operational counterpart towards Production and Planning, driving operational priorities, managing supply-related risks, and ensuring that materials, components, and supplier commitments support business and production needs. Working closely with Procurement Managers and their teams, you will drive supply performance, identify and mitigate risks, improve ways of working, and strengthen the Procurement organization's ability to support production and customer commitments.

The role combines operational leadership, stakeholder management, continuous improvement, and supply chain development. It is a key functional leadership role, supporting managers, team leads and operational buyers driving performance in our supply chain.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Supply Performance

• Drive operational supply performance and delivery capability across the site.
• Follow up and improve key operational KPIs.
• Supports recovery plans and escalation activities impacting production or customer commitments.
• Organize and facilitate regular operative meetings and daily coordination.

Production & Planning Interface

• Act as Procurement's primary operational counterpart toward Production and Planning.
• Coordinate priorities, capacity considerations, and supply-related activities across functions.
• Facilitate collaboration between Procurement, Production, Planning, Logistics, Quality, and Engineering.

Operational Procurement Development

• Build the future operational supply organization within Procurement.