Senior Category Manager – IT Procurement

Are you passionate about shaping the future of IT procurement in a sustainable energy company? Procurement Indirect within Vattenfall is seeking a Senior Category Manager. The focus of the role is to manage the strategic direction of the category and the sourcing activities throughout Vattenfall. The target is a group-wide Category strategy alignment and impact to realize overall Vattenfall potential, for best of Vattenfall.

This role is pivotal and the person will be a part of the Indirect procurement leadership team.

Your tasks and responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of the Global IT Category Strategy, aligning with Vattenfall’s sustainability and digital transformation goals.
• Develop Supplier strategies focused on relationship- and performance management as well as supplier development to ensure novel market approaches are identified and evaluated.
• Build, manage and maintain relationships with the top global IT suppliers, ensuring performance, innovation, and alignment with business needs.
• Manage the Category team, functionally, based on team anchored rules of engagement, work, decision making; cultivate a high-performing team by fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders across business areas to translate sourcing needs into actionable procurement initiatives.
• Embed Vattenfall’s Procurement Scorecard KPIs into category plans and ensure consistent follow-up.
• Represent Vattenfall with a unified voice in supplier interactions, fostering trust and long-term partnerships.
• Be accountable for the execution of the global Category strategy through procurement decisions across the business.