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Strategic Sourcing Specialist - Wave Energy
CorPower Ocean
Posted on Jun 6, 2025
Stockholm
Strategic Sourcing Specialist - Wave Energy
Working at CorPower Ocean you will be part of a world class team, determined to make big impact. We are on a mission to bring reliable and competitive wave energy to the world. We offer a high degree of autonomy and flexibility, combined with great personal responsibility. CorPower Ocean is a global leader in wave energy, with a technology that has shown game-changing performance. Your work will contribute to the global energy transition by unlocking one of the largest untapped sources of clean energy on earth.
Role
We are looking for an ambitious person with relevant experience in operational procurement in a complex technical field to join our Supply chain and quality team. Do you want to take a key role in the development of wave energy technology?
Responsibilities
- You will drive the design-to-cost process together with design team and feed design input for manufacturing processes, quality, cost, supplier selections and logistics.
- Your purchasing scope is focused on LV/MV components, electrical drive train components, sensors and control equipment. However, as a supply chain team member you will support the entire product development and delivery process where needed.
- The scope of responsibility includes the product delivery phases from design, quotations/negotiations, sourcing decision and purchasing, delivery monitoring, incoming control/quality
- Establishing and developing relationships with key suppliers of electrical components and sub-systems
- Actively control the supply chain towards time synchronized delivery to project schedule
- Cost calculations and cost improvement projects together with suppliers
- New supplier qualification according to supplier approval process and ISO9001 requirements
- Consider global sourcing and local content aspects as a natural part of all sourcing work.
Skills and qualifications
You have at least two years working experience of strategical and operational purchasing/procurement, with a degree in relevant discipline. You have experience from industrial machinery and electrical components, preferably for harsh environments, for instance from automotive, mining, marine applications or other sectors with similar requirements. We expect strong negotiations skills with experience from creating agreements and implementing balanced Terms & Conditions. Experience from advanced work in ERP systems is considered qualifying (CorPower is using Monitor ERP). You like to travel and work closely together with suppliers to optimize quality, cost drivers and lead-times. You are highly proficient in business English.
As a person:
- You are striving for excellence, put quality into everything you do
- You are self-motivated and hate to waste time
- You always search for the most simple and sustainable solutions to difficult problems
- You love to learn new things, and take pride in constantly developing your skills
- You are persistent, knowing it takes stamina to reach ambitious goals
- You see your tasks through to completion
- You are comfortable in presenting your solutions internally and externally
- You are data driven and strive to always back your points with a solid analysis
- Locations
- Stockholm
Stockholm
Why join us ?
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Our mission
To bring competitive wave energy technology to the world, unlocking one of the largest untapped sources of renewable energy by harnessing the natural power of the oceans.
To solve a challenge that no one else has cracked before, whilst tackling climate change and achieving a sustainable low-carbon future.
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Your impact
Team members are given a high degree of autonomy and flexibility, combined with great personal responsibility. You will have the chance to face technical and commercial challenges that are complex to solve, cutting-edge and highly inspiring.
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Your wellbeing
We try and encourage a fun and intellectually stimulating work environment here at CorPower Ocean. Throughout the journey we share the highs and lows together, which brings us all closer together !
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Your benefits
We offer an attractive package including: competitive base salary, stock options , health & wellbeing support, pension plan, health insurance, and six weeks of paid vacation.
Join the Wave Technology revolution!
We are a dynamic, supportive, fun and a truly international team of more than 15 nationalities including industry experts, innovators, experienced interdisciplinary engineers and business professionals.
CPO strive to combine the best of world class knowledge from around the world with a true entrepreneurial spirit devoted to developing the best wave energy technology out there .
About CorPower Ocean
CorPower Ocean is a global leader in Wave Energy technology. The ocean forms one of the largest yet least explored renewable energy sources on earth. We bring a new class of high efficiency Wave Energy Converters (WECs) enabling robust and cost-effective harvesting of electricity from ocean waves. The design principle is inspired by the pumping principles of the human heart and offers five times more energy per ton of device compared to previously known technologies, allowing a large amount of energy to be harvested using a small and low-cost device. A unique transparent protection mode brings survivability in the toughest storm conditions. We are headquartered in Sweden with offices in Portugal, Scotland and Norway.
Founded in 2012
Co-workers About 80
Stockholm