Are you ready to take the lead in a high-impact Procurement role within Group Procurement at SEB?

Do you want to drive real business value through strategic sourcing and category management across key indirect spend areas such as Marketing, Professional Services, and Insurance? This is your opportunity to contribute directly to SEBs enterprise-wide procurement objectives.

As a Sourcing & Category Manager in Group Procurement, you will own and drive procurement strategies and sourcing initiativesleading projects end-to-end across multiple business lines, regions, and functions. You will work closely with stakeholders in Finance, Group Business Services, and the broader business to ensure alignment, cost efficiency, and sustainable value creation.

This role is ideal for a motivated and self-driven procurement professional who thrives in a dynamic environmentsomeone who is structured, analytical, and comfortable managing multiple sourcing initiatives in parallel while collaborating cross-functionally.

You will be part of SEBs Group Procurement organization, working alongside skilled procurement professionals across Sweden and SEBs international sitessharing insights, harmonizing approaches, and strengthening procurement excellence across the bank.

SEB is a leading northern European financial services group, a large organization with many areas in which one can accelerate, drive, or support our core business. Bring an entrepreneurial mindset, passion for learning, and a collaborative nature, and you will have the opportunity for a long and exciting career here. Does that sound like a fit for you?


About the role
As part of SEBs Group Procurement organization you will be supported by, and collaborate with, many skilled procurement colleagues in Sweden and on SEBs other sites.

You will be responsible for e.g.:
Own and develop category strategies and multi year roadmaps for your respective category
Perform demand, market, and TCO analysis
Define preferred supplier models and sourcing strategies within your assigned category
Decide when sourcing activities are required and how they are classified (strategic/non strategic)
Act as commercial owner for categories and supplier portfolios
Accountable for value realization and risk mitigation at category level
Responsible for category structure and categorization
Define sourcing strategy for Strategic projects
Generate supplier portfolio and input for RFx
Select Implementation Path and Prepare RFx
Prepare, formulate and develop negotiation tactics
Collaborate with other functions, such as e.g. TPRMS to Develop & conduct continuous risk assessment plan for all strategic vendors which includes but is not limited to identification, impact assessment, monitoring and control


To thrive in this role, we believe you have
A Master degree in finance, economics engineering fields or Law is preferred
Have a sufficient and proven track record within the Procurement field
Have experience and knowledge of driving sourcing and procurement projects
Have experience in collecting and analyzing data as well as presenting the results and insights in a professional way
Ability to see broadly and understand strategic changes and effectively translate that into necessary process and/or requirements needed to support the needs of the business
Highly effective communication, relationship building, presentation and interpersonal skills
Self-directed, self-motivated that find motivation in a diverse portfolio of tasks
Thrive interacting with many different colleagues and functions to reach you targets
Speak and write English fluently
Hands on experience from procurement systems such as Coupa is preferred