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Purchasing Sustainability Compliance Specialist

Are you curious about Supply chain in construction and how the increasing sustainability demands connects to this? Are you ready to join NCC Purchasing’s journey and step into the role as Purchasing Sustainability Compliance Specialist? Are you thriving in an environment influenced by digitalization, sustainability, and innovation?

If you also are good at ensuring effective collaboration with stakeholders both internal and external, act with care and with passion to perform, follow up and follow through with clear communication, living by our Star Behaviors? Then it´s time to submit your application. 

You will join the Group function Group Purchasing, which leads NCC´s strategic development and major change programs in Purchasing. We are a Nordic organization with over 300 employees working together closely with purchasing under one common management.

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring compliance with sustainability standards and regulations while supporting sustainability reporting initiatives. Your primary focus will be on monitoring and supporting sustainable practices throughout our supply chain and facilitating the accurate reporting of sustainability metrics. By effectively collaborating with various internal stakeholders and external partners, you will contribute to the achievement of our sustainability goals within Purchasing.

Responsibilities

• Compliance Monitoring: Monitor and ensure compliance with sustainability regulations, policies, and standards, both internally and within the supply chain on an on-going basis.
• Sustainability Reporting: Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to gather data and prepare accurate sustainability reports with a primary focus on Social and Governance.
• Auditing and Assessment: Support with annual Human Rights Impact Assessment and supporting in the overall work with audits and assessments to ensure templates and tools covers the legislative requirements.
• Regulatory Compliance: Stay up-to-date with relevant sustainability regulations and industry standards, ensuring compliance and proactively recommending necessary adjustments to policies and practices.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including purchasing, sustainability, and legal teams, to align sustainable purchasing practices and reporting procedures.
• Training and Awareness: Support in developing and delivering training programs to enhance awareness and understanding of sustainability requirements, policies, and procedures among internal and external stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for enhancing sustainability performance and propose innovative solutions to drive continuous improvement across the purchasing organization.
• Reporting and Communication: Prepare periodic reports on sustainability performance, present findings to senior management, and contribute to external sustainability reporting efforts.

Your profile

We are looking for someone who has a Bachelor or Master´s degree in finance, economics, law, or other relevant post-secondary education You have at least three years of experience of working operative with project management, business analysis, process development, change management, management consulting or similar. Experience from development projects within Purchasing and/or Construction industry is a merit, but not a requirement. In the end, for us, the right mindset and drive are the two most important qualities in the person we are looking for.

You are confident, mature and have excellent people skills. You are persistent and have an exceptional drive and "get it done" mentality and you don’t hesitate to try different approaches to find your way forward. Furthermore, you quickly “connect the dots” and connect independent issues to the bigger picture.

Additional information

The location is flexible and can be at any of NCC's main offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Copenhagen, Oslo, or Helsinki. You need to attend meetings in the Stockholm office frequently and there will be travelling to the other Nordic countries upwards of 2-3 days per month. However, we do apply a flexible way of working and collaborate digitally . In accordance with NCCs safety culture we conduct background checks on final candidates.

Contact and application

For further information on this position please contact Jakob Gjedde Nielsen, Legal Counsel Group Purchasing, +45 41 70 48 85, or Karin Österman de Wall, HR Recruitment Specialist, +46 79 078 7210.

Register your application and CV below. Selection is ongoing, therefore, please admit your application as soon as possible, but no later than October 22nd, 2023.

About NCC

At NCC, you become part of an organization with good values, high environmental awareness, and a strong will to succeed together. Every day, our more than 12,500 employees make decisions that improve people's everyday lives, both today and tomorrow. Here you work in a strong community together with committed and professional colleagues who are driven to learn new things, achieve goals, share experiences, and make a real difference together. We challenge ourselves to drive development and create sustainable solutions that move society forward with new knowledge.

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