Manager, Purchasing Operations

About the role

We’re looking for a Manager, Purchasing Operations to lead a team responsible for purchase transactions and related processes, spend channels and P2P system support with effective utilization across the businesses. You ensure daily operational purchasing activities, compliance and strong service delivery towards internal users and suppliers. You will play a key role in driving process efficiency, system adoption and compliance across purchasing channels and businesses.

The role requires a strong focus on performance management, data-driven decision making and change leadership, enabling sustainable improvements in efficiency, compliance and value delivery. You will also champion system adoption, support transformation initiatives and contribute to the development of a scalable and future-ready purchasing operations team.

Key responsibilities

• Leading and guiding the Purchasing Operations team, ensuring high-quality and compliant execution of purchase transactions and end-user support
• Driving operational excellence in exception handling and vendor queries
• Ensuring efficient validation of purchase requests and management of purchase orders and related changes
• Overseeing contract translation and implementation into P2P systems, ensuring accuracy and system integrity
• Managing purchasing channels and ensuring smooth execution of operational procurement activities
• Owning and continuously developing operational processes, ways of working and stakeholder management
• Developing the operations to enable process automation and efficiency
• Ensuring the right capabilities and performance management are in place
• Defining and driving targets aligned with business and stakeholders
• Building and developing a high-performing team by fostering accountability, engagement, continuous learning and a results-driven culture
• Leading organizational change and capability development to support evolving business and procurement needs
• Building strong partnerships with Procurement, Finance, IT and business stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and value creation
• Presenting the service delivery vision, status, opportunities and challenges

About you

To succeed in this role, you have:

• At least 5 years of work experience in the procurement field
• At least 2 years of experience in a managerial position
• An academic degree in a relevant field
• Strong understanding of purchase-to-pay processes
• Strong stakeholder management and a service-oriented mindset
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in written and spoken English
• Previous experience using Basware P2P, IBM Maximo and/or SAP Ariba is seen as an asset
• Shared Services experience is seen as an asset
• Proficiency in quantitative and data analysis
• Ability to lead change, engage and motivate teams

What we offer

• Contract of employment
• Hybrid work model (2 days per week in the office)
• Benefits package including: private medical care, life insurance, Multisport card co-financing, lunch card, social fund benefits, PPK (retirement plan), gifts and events for employees and their children
• Wellbeing initiatives (e.g. webinars, wellbeing platform, wellbeing events)
• Learning & development opportunities (e.g. English classes, e-learning)
• Casual dress code
• Parking spaces available for booking

Interested?

Apply via our online system until 29 September.

We kindly inform you that we will contact directly only selected candidates.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact: Katariina Flinkman
Senior Manager, Procurement Enablement & Operations katariina.flinkman@fortum.com

Please note: We do not use AI in our recruitment processes. Every application is thoroughly reviewed by both the hiring manager and/or the recruiter to ensure a fair and personalized evaluation.

If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or other circumstances, please let us know when applying. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

We are Fortum

Fortum is a Nordic energy company. We generate and deliver reliable energy to our customers and the Nordic energy system while at the same time helping industries decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations comprise efficient and best-in-class low-carbon power generation, customer services, and heating and cooling. Fortum’s power generation is already 99% from renewable or nuclear sources with one of the lowest specific CO2 emissions in Europe. We are guided by our ambitious SBTi-validated emission reduction targets on our way towards net-zero by 2040. For our 4,500 employees, we commit to be a safe and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.

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