Project Buyer

At Polarium, Sourcing is a key contributor to the success of our product development projects. We are now hiring a Project Buyer to our Sourcing engineering team, located at our HQ in Stockholm. Come join our team and get the opportunity to engineer the future!

About the job

We are on the lookout for a Project Buyer with a technical and commercial mindset who wants to join us in our mission to create the best energy storage in the world. As a Project Buyer you will, together with your colleagues in the Sourcing Engineering team, have a key role in ensuring time to market and optimized BOM cost in product development projects and related indirect categories. With suppliers all over the world you will work in a truly international environment.

You will

• Be responsible for Purchase order management, coordinate and secure material, optimize product life cycle cost as well as time to market and ensure value engineering.
• In collaboration with colleagues in Sourcing and RnD you will ensure and manage that preferred suppliers are chosen in product development projects
• RFQ management

• Handling purchasing requisitions of indirect material from our regional buyers and communicating with Requesters.
• Mindset for consolidating the standard consumable goods to our existing suppliers if it’s possible.
• Supporting the needs of indirect materials and services to stakeholders.

• Master data management - set up and maintain correct sourcing parameters in the ERP system (Business Central)
• Product cost control including follow-up and reporting/Design to cost
• Report and follow-up on related KPI's

You have

• 3-5 years’ experience of operational purchase in a global manufacturing company
• Track record of delivering value in project-related sourcing and deep understanding of the commercial process with external suppliers
• Good knowledge of ERP systems, preferably Business Central
  
• Strong analytical skills and have successfully worked with system administration and master data.

Who are you?

• A good communicator and networker who easily creates trust & long-term relationships, both internally and externally
• We believe you have a solid technical interest, a commercial mindset, and a positive attitude.
• With a strong inner drive and the ability to take ownership of the tasks at hand you always maintain focus on results and with the know-how to deliver value to our company
• You are able to work individually as well as within a cross-functional global team with the highest standard
• To succeed in the role, you are analytical and thrive in a dynamic environment.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a challenging position in an open, friendly, international environment where we help each other to develop and create value, as We Are One. Your work and mind-set will have a true impact on Polarium’s future success, and we encourage you to Take Charge.

Every day we encourage you to excel, as We think big for a smarter and more sustainable future – let’s do it together!

We offer

• Generous bonus system
• Maximized wellness contribution
• Exercise with our own Wellness Manager during working hours
• Five extra flexibility days
• Pension and health insurance

Energize your career

We believe an inclusive work environment is what will boost our employees’ success. An open mindset is what charges our innovation and creativity. We believe that there’s always one more thing to learn, one new thing to invent, and one more product to develop to make energy systems around the world greener and more efficient. Come join our team and get the opportunity to engineer the future!

Plug into Polarium

We’ve enabled endless energy since 2015.

Our frontier tech in energy storage systems has reached all over the world and transformed the renewable energy industry. We’re one of Europe’s fastest growing companies with 750+ employees located in over 4 continents and counting. Our valuable diversity, creativity and top-class engineering is the code we use to unlock the most complex sustainability problems in energy.

We are a Swedish company dedicated to providing the best-performing, safe, and sustainable energy storage solutions built on lithium-ion technology. Today, our market-leading solutions are in use on all continents and in all climate zones. We ensure that the flow of energy never stops, while enabling our customers to reduce their energy costs and carbon footprint. 

Do you share our vision for a smart and sustainable future? Join our team!