Operational Purchasing Specialist
About this role
At Tetra Pak we commit to making food safe and available, everywhere; and we protect what's good – protecting food, protecting people, and protecting the planet. By doing so we touch millions of people's lives every day.
And we need people like you to make it happen.
We empower you to reach your potential with opportunities to make an impact to be proud of – for food, people and the planet.
Job Description: Job Summary
We’re looking for an Operational Purchasing Specialist to join our Replenishment team within Services Supply Network.
The purpose of this role is to follow up and secure on-time deliveries from suppliers, reduce deviations in confirmations and deliveries, and keep the operational flow clean enough that we spend less time chasing and more time improving.
This is a permanent role based in Lund, Sweden. Tetra Pak has a hybrid setup with 3 days per week in the office.
Responsibilities
- This is an operational role: you’ll manage deviations, drive supplier actions to closure, and keep a large supplier scope moving. You will be the person who makes sure the supplier side of the engine runs the way it’s supposed to. Main working tools will be SAP ECC and Excel, there is an advantage if you also know Power BI or Power Automate.
- You’ll be managing a portfolio that, on average, means 3000+ order lines across 100+ suppliers, and it’s a global supplier scope. It’s a lot of moving parts, which is why structure and follow-through is important for this position.
- Main responsibilities:
- Order confirmation control: reducing missing confirmations and minimizing deviations.
- Delivery deviation management: reducing “delayed according to confirmed” cases, expediting where needed, and making practical decisions like split shipments when that’s the best route to protect availability.
- Blocked and overdue invoices: handling supplier-related invoice blocks and overdue cases in your scope, working closely with Finance so we don’t create avoidable friction in the flow