Consultant Vendor Manager
HybridStockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Job Summary
Manage the end-to-end consultant engagement lifecycle for assigned Staff Augmentation demand, ensuring accurate administration, traceability, and compliant handling in relevant systems. Review and validate intake submissions, clarify scope and requirements, and challenge unclear demand to support sound sourcing decisions. Lead competitive sourcing through the preferred supplier network by default, select and brief suppliers, and provide structured feedback to improve quality and speed. Support consultant selection and fee alignment through rate guidance and benchmarking, while managing extensions, early terminations, and compliance-related escalations. Partner with Procurement and hiring stakeholders to reinforce the preferred supplier model and support continuous improvement. This role requires fluency in English and Swedish.
Required Qualifications
- Relevant experience in consultant acquisition, contingent workforce coordination, procurement-supported hiring, or a similar role involving supplier interaction, stakeholder management, and end-to-end process coordination in a complex environment
- Relevant academic background or equivalent professional experience in HR, business, procurement, operations, or a related field
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to clarify demand, challenge unclear requirements, and support sound decisions without formal authority
- Strong commercial awareness
- Structured judgement
- Attention to detail
- Ability to balance cost, quality, speed, and compliance
- Experience working in an evolving environment with shifting priorities
- Strong familiarity with Vendor Management Systems (VMS), KPI follow-up, and reporting
- Fluency in English and Swedish
- 75% onsite in Stockholm
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