Procurement Manager

We're hiring a Procurement Manager in Stockholm to own sourcing, negotiation, and vendor management across our indirect spend: software and SaaS, cloud and infrastructure, data, professional services, marketing, and facilities. This is the first dedicated procurement hire in Stockholm, reporting to the Procurement Director. You'll decide how we run competitive processes, how we negotiate, how we measure savings, and how teams get purchases through Legal, Security, and Finance without losing a week to it. It's a hands-on individual contributor role with unusual latitude, and we expect you to work AI-first.

Responsibilities

Lead strategic sourcing across our indirect spend categories, building the category view and deciding where we compete a purchase, consolidate, rightsize, or walk away; Run competitive sourcing events end to end: RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs with scorecards agreed up front, structured supplier evaluation, and award recommendations backed by a cost model; Own negotiation strategy on new purchases and renewals — pricing, volume tiers, ramps, payment terms, duration — and redline commercial terms alongside Legal; Own the renewal pipeline, opening every material renewal well ahead of expiry with usage data and market benchmarks in hand, and rightsize or consolidate instead of auto-renewing; Partner with Finance and FP&A on spend forecasting, license models tied to headcount planning, and budget impact; Partner with IT, Security, and Legal on vendor diligence and data protection review, keeping purchasing compliant with our policies and our customers' security requirements; Manage supplier relationships and performance after signature, running reviews against agreed service levels and making the call to renew, renegotiate, or exit; Analyze spend, demand, and benchmark data to surface savings through consolidation, contract restructuring, and rightsizing, and report realized savings and cost avoidance to leadership; Use AI as leverage across benchmark research, contract and clause review, spend analysis, negotiation prep, and first-draft business cases — and build the checks that make the output trustworthy to the rest of the business

Requirements

2+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or another analytically rigorous commercial role such as consulting, banking, or finance and business operations; Software and SaaS spend preferred; Track record on real agreements you can walk through end to end: what you targeted, what you traded, and what it saved; Ability to read an agreement and spot terms that cost money later, including auto-renewals, uplift caps, true-up mechanics, and termination rights; AI is your default first step; you can show what you've automated and how you verify output before relying on it; Strong in Excel or Sheets, comfortable modeling spend scenarios and total cost of ownership, and able to build a business case you'd present to a CFO without hedging; Ability to influence without authority across Legal, Security, IT, Engineering, and Finance, and give and take direct feedback without ego; You'd rather design the scalable system than patch the same manual step every week; You make the call when no policy covers it, then write the policy

Nice to have

Hands-on experience with Zip; Experience on large, complex agreements: cloud and infrastructure commitments (AWS, GCP, Azure), enterprise SaaS agreements, or multi-year data and model provider deals; Vendor security and privacy review fluency: SOC 2, ISO 27001, and DPAs, and a view on which parts actually matter