About this role
Competencies required • University degree in Engineering, Business Administration or any other equivalent degree/working experience • Excellent project management skills (preferably GPM2 certification) • Lead/drive and support change initiatives and challenge existing ways of working • Result oriented with strong ability to follow-up progress and keep commitments • Good business experience in strategic purchasing processes with focus on Tendering management • Team player • Enthusiasm and innovative approach to problem solving • Excellent analytical and cost modeling skills (TCO, should cost) • Entrepreneurship and leadership skills • Good commercial experience • Excellent in communication, networking and forming strong partnerships • Fluent in written and spoken English • Experience Purchasing Risk management • Ability to understand and work with IT systems • Ability to work in an international environment • Ability to manage cultural diversity • Willingness for international travels Key Responsibilities • Be an active member of Strategic Sourcing projects supporting with advanced purchasing analytics • Managing big data and optimize data in order to get insights for category management and tender strategy. • Build up the baseline and business case for a project in a data capture sheet and ensure measurements of the project KPI’s • Perform spend, pricing trends and supply chain set up analysis within a given category (e.g. trends and category outlooks) • Collect and analyze the SKF needs and demands within a specific category • Perform market study analysis such as Kraljic, five forces, supplier searches, financial development, volumes • Execute Requests for Information (RFI), Quotation (RFQ), Proposals (RFP), Solutions (RFS) including related evaluation of replies • Perform competitor analysis • Perform and provide support on cost modeling and optimization • Contribute to the development of strategic scenarios and run workshops About SKF SKF works to reduce friction, make things run faster, longer, cleaner and more safely. Doing this in the most effective, productive and sustainable way has made the SKF Group a leading global supplier of products, solutions and services within rolling bearings, seals, mechatronics, services and lubrication systems. Services include technical support, maintenance services, condition monitoring, asset efficiency optimization, engineering consultancy and training.