Senior Procurement OT Specialist
Location: Solna, Stockholm, SwedenStart Date: 19th October 2026
End Date: 30th April 2027
Work Style: Hybrid - 40 hours per week, 5 days per week
Role Objective
Support the Indirect Procurement OT category within a digital programme. Establish and execute strategic sourcing activities required to support a new Operational Control Centre and associated OT initiatives. Deliver compliant, transparent, and commercially robust procurement outcomes while aligning business, IT, architecture, security, legal, and programme stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and lead assigned IT and OT procurement processes from initial market analysis through to contracting and supplier mobilisation.
- Advise programme and business stakeholders on sourcing strategy, procurement planning, supplier criteria, and commercial considerations.
- Develop practical sourcing strategies and procurement plans aligned with business, technical, security, and transition needs.
- Manage procurement milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions in line with the integrated programme roadmap.
- Coordinate supplier evaluation, shortlisting, clarification, negotiation, contracting, onboarding, mobilisation, and handover activities.
- Maintain transparent and auditable procurement records, commercial assumptions, risks, decisions, and supplier-selection status.
Tasks
- Perform an IT and OT category and supplier-market scan covering the services and capabilities required by the programme and its projects.
- Translate business, IT, architecture, security, and transition needs into practical sourcing strategies, supplier criteria, and procurement plans.
- Prepare, coordinate, and issue RFI, RFQ, and RFP documentation with relevant stakeholders.
- Plan and manage procurement milestones, dependencies, and decisions in line with the integrated roadmap.
- Develop evaluation criteria, commercial models, and scoring structures, and coordinate transparent supplier evaluations.
- Support supplier shortlisting, clarification meetings, negotiations, and commercial recommendations.
- Coordinate contracting activities and support supplier onboarding, mobilisation, and handover.
- Maintain a consolidated view of supplier-selection status, timelines, commercial assumptions, risks, and decisions.
- Provide procurement input to programme reporting, budget discussions, and Steering Committee decision material.
- Work collaboratively with programme teams and relevant corporate procurement functions throughout delivery.
Decision Authority / Responsibility
- Independently manage assigned IT and OT procurement activities within agreed governance, timelines, and delegated authority.
- Provide commercial advice and constructively challenge technical, business, and supplier stakeholders where required.
- Maintain integrity, confidentiality, transparency, and auditability when handling supplier information and procurement decisions.
- Escalate material commercial, contractual, delivery, governance, and programme risks to the appropriate stakeholders.
Requirements
- Relevant university or college degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Law, IT, or equivalent professional experience.
- Approximately 3 to 5 years of experience managing and leading IT-related procurement processes.
- Experience developing and executing sourcing activities within an IT or OT category, transformation programme, or comparable technical environment.
- Experience preparing and coordinating RFI, RFQ, and RFP processes, supplier evaluations, negotiations, contracting, and mobilisation.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to constructively challenge and align commercial, technical, and business perspectives.
- Strong analytical and structuring skills, with close attention to detail and the ability to maintain transparent and auditable procurement decisions.
- Pragmatic and delivery-oriented, with the ability to balance procurement quality, governance, and compliance against programme deadlines.
- Able to prioritise, create structure, and maintain momentum in a fast-changing environment with incomplete information and multiple dependencies.
- Self-driven and collaborative, with the ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary programme team.
- High integrity and sound judgement when handling commercially sensitive and confidential information.
- Professional fluency in English and the ability to work on a hybrid basis from Solna, Stockholm.