Sourcing Professional / Sourcing Manager

We are looking for a Sourcing Professional or Sourcing Manager to become part of our growing and ambitious Sourcing Team. You have strong interpersonal skills, enjoy negotiations and are ability of commercial thinking, this is a great opportunity for your future development.

This is an opportunity for you to work with Nordea's existing and future suppliers enabling Nordea to create great customer experiences. Nordea is on an ambitious journey to improve its Cost/Income ratio with high focus on initiatives within all business areas to deliver on this strategy and become the best finance partner in the Nordics.

Sourcing play a key role in this exciting and challenging journey, and you will be driving a range of sourcing activities across multiple Business Units and across a range of different categories with stakeholders at all levels. You will be working in a dynamic, fun and fast-paced environment with colleagues across the Nordics and Poland. Your key responsibility will be to find innovative and more cost efficient ways of delivering banking services, securing full compliance with regulators requirements, and we will focus heavily on your training and development enabling you to learn and grow as you build your career with us.

About our team

Meet the Tactical Sourcing & Enablement team. Our role is to drive sourcing activities and projects across multiple Business Units and across a range of different categories with stakeholders at all levels, contributing to Nordea's cost/income ratio. Tactical Sourcing & Enablement team is located in Lodz, with 9 people in the team, incl. Sourcing Managers & Sourcing Analysts. Reporting line is Lodz and across Nordics.

Main responsibilities in this role

• Independently leading a range of procurement activities as a sourcing manager in accordance with Nordea Procurement Policy and related guidelines as well as applicable laws, rules and regulations
• Driving internal analyses and market analyses to determine the appropriate sourcing strategy
• Preparing for and executing negotiations with suppliers
• Developing tactical and strategic recommendations for project steering committees and managing stakeholders to ensure alignment with the project objectives and strategy
• Drafting of contracts in close cooperation with our legal experts to ensure that we reduce risks and costs while increasing the value of our contracts
• Suggesting and driving improvement activities to procurement processes and tools
• Collaborating closely with Contract Management team and other teams/units outside of Sourcing unit

What we offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it's to take their career to the next level. For others, it's to break new ground within their area of expertise. A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment. Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.