Senior Sourcing Manager

Job ID: 4100

 

We are looking for a Senior Sourcing Manager with +5 years of experience to become part of our growing and ambitious Sourcing Team. You possess strong commercial acumen, negotiation experience and project management skills, you communicate with impact, and you have a proven track record of delivering commercial value and savings through cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders. 

This is an opportunity for you to work with Nordea's existing and future suppliers enabling Nordea to create great customer experiences. Nordea is on an ambitious journey with our Nordic scale strategy as well as our Cost/income ratio target, and there is a high focus on initiatives within all business areas to deliver on this strategy and become the best-performing financial services group in the Nordics. 

Sourcing has a key role to play in this exciting and challenging journey, and you will be driving a range of complex sourcing projects within Business Banking to deliver on Nordic Scale across a range of different commodities. You will be working in a dynamic, fun and fast-paced environment with colleagues across the Nordics.

We invest heavily in training our team as our key focus is on creating innovative, better and more cost effective ways to deliver banking services. This means you’ll have many opportunities to grow and build your career with us.  

Your future responsibilities:

• Sourcing is focused on working closely with multiple Business Units to deliver cost savings, process efficiencies and create value whilst ensuring regulatory compliance. You will be responsible for:
• Independently leading a range of complex and strategic procurement activities in accordance with Nordea Procurement Policy and regulatory requirements 
• Proactively promoting and producing ideas for sourcing projects/activities that will add value to Nordea with a positive impact to Nordea’s Nordic Scale strategy and Cost/Income ratio
• Developing commercial models and facilitating market research to ensure fact based decision making on assigned projects
• Owning and aligning negotiation strategies  with key stakeholders on assigned projects
• Leading contract drafting in cooperation with our colleagues from Group Legal
• Acting as subject matter expert on Sourcing related activities and supporting the development of competences of colleagues within Group Procurement and throughout the wider organization to strengthen Nordea’s sourcing knowledge base

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the four key values that guide us in being at our best. We imagine that you enjoy learning and are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You’re self-driven, dependable, willing to speak up – even when it’s difficult – and committed to empowering others. 

Your profile and background:

• Fluency in English (both written and spoken) 
• Degree in Law, Business, Economics, Operations, Supply Chain Management or similar
• 5+ year of commercial experience in a multi stakeholder environment 
• Proven track record in delivering on delivering savings and value by managing complex sourcing projects and driving commercial negotiations 
• Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management skills, enabling you to develop an effective strategy for completing your tasks and influence suppliers and key stakeholders in the organization
• Experience with international roles or working in an international company with a diverse culture and daily interaction with many different nationalities will be seen as an advantage
• Experience with payment transactions will be seen as an advantage

 

Do you tick the boxes? Why don’t you get in touch!

 

Next steps

 

​Submit your application no later than 12/05/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Charlotte Nathalie Kjeldgaard at charlotte.n.kjeldgaard@nordea.com.

 

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

 

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

 

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

 

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

 

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us. Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

 

Only for candidates in Finland: A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

 

Only for candiadtes in Sweden: For union information, please contact finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACONordea@nordea.com.