About Compass Group

Compass Group PLC was founded in 1941 in the United Kingdom and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1998. The company operates in 40 countries, serves 5.5 billion meals annually, and generates a revenue of 250 billion SEK. Compass Group employs a total of 500,000 people worldwide.

In Sweden, Compass Group operates over 450 restaurants and manages 75 support service contracts, employing more than 2,700 people. Each day, the company serves 125,000 portions, amounting to 40 million meals annually to its customers.

The Swedish headquarters is located in Solna, with approximately 100 employees, while the Gothenburg office has around 10 employees.

Purpose of the Role

This is a high profile, leadership position and an integral member of the country executive leadership team reporting directly to the country MD. The procurement director will be responsible for defining and delivering the overarching procurement vision, strategy and KPI’s, aligned to Compass procurement excellence best practise. They will need to ensure close collaboration and alignment across all functions to deliver best value solutions to ensure the business grows and the procurement team deliver sustainable year on year improved results.

This role will inspire and motivate their team by creating a high-performance culture, embedding a true procurement mindset, and striving for procurement excellence across every aspect of their team’s activity and delivery.

The Procurement Director will also have a dotted reporting line into the Regional Procurement Director and therefore play an integral role collaborating with colleagues across the region and at times globally, to support sharing and embedding best in class processes and approaches to accelerate regional procurement performance year on year.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a key player in strengthening procurement organisation wide, positioning it as a key enabler for growth.
• Lead the transformation from a traditional supply base to a partnership model.
• Lead, inspire and motivate the procurement team to plan, develop and execute procurement activity that delivers the KPI’s.
• Broaden the business deals and optimising the spend. Develop category plans to extract value from every area of spend, food, non-food & retail.
• Embed Compass Group procurement excellence blueprint best practise, processes, and ways of working in the organisation.
• Develop and implement a procurement data & systems strategy to accelerate control, visibility & value delivery.
• Build strong sustainable relationships with key strategic suppliers to leverage and deliver value.
• Embed structure, governance, and process within in the team to drive market leading procurement performance.
• Lead collaboration, alignment, and structured interaction with Compass sectors to drive performance and delivery together.

Qualifications and Experience

• Academic degree in economics, logistics, or another relevant field.
• Extensive Procurement expertise / experience
• A dynamic, energetic & creative leader that can define a vision for success whilst delivering tangible progress across the short, medium & long term.
• Strong commercial acumen to maximise results and challenge the status quo.
• An ability to make effective decisions under pressure with an abundance of resilience & tenacity.
• Drive to operate at pace in a rapidly changing environment and manage multiple agendas/priorities.
• Excellent coaching skills to develop their team and ensure clear succession planning.
• Inspires, motivates & builds trust with their team and all other functions across the business.
• Role models being curious with data & insight to unlock commercial opportunity embedding a procurement mindset.
• Ability to build strong collaborative relationships & successfully influence at all levels.
• Identifies areas for improvement & drives change throughout the organisation to improve efficiency.
• Celebrates success and recognises the contribution of the team & colleagues around them.
• Demonstrated experience as a “thought leader”, sought after for advice, counsel, and judgement.
• Proven execution skills, an ability to successfully execute against their strategies/plans collaboratively with others.

Personal Attributes

• High pace – dynamic & energetic
• Positive and optimistic attitude
• Solution-based mindset
• Decisive - "able to make decisions"
• Excellent coaching skills
• Communicative and inspirational
• Strong negotiator
• Can cope with complexity
• Data-driven i.e. integrates quantitative analysis and empirical evidence into various aspects, ensuring that decisions and actions are grounded in solid, objective information.
• Seeks collaboration
  Strategic thinker with the ability to see long-term goals.
• Commercial mindset and strong negotiation skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Structured and organised with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

If you are a driven and experienced procurement professional looking to take the next step in your career and contribute to the development of Compass Group’s procurement operations, please submit your application, including your CV and cover letter, as soon as possible. Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis.

If you have any questions, please contact Per Jerndahl per.jerndahl@basedonpeople.se or Ulf Lindén ulf.linden@basedonpeople.se