IT Supplier Compliance Manager

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Job Description

Do you want to contribute to power climate smarter living by creating a secure and stable IT operations?

As our IT Supplier Compliance Manager, you will be in charge of all security and compliance relevant information coming from our IT suppliers.

You will have the mandate to act on all supplier security & compliance related topics across the whole IT organisation. Your contribution to securing compliancy through the whole IT supplier chain for Vattenfall is crucial and will allow us to continue on our journey to become fossil free!

You will join the management team of IT Portfolio & Supplier Management which is responsible for managing Vattenfall IT’s project portfolio, our sourcing agenda our suppliers, all IT assets (laptops, devices and all our software licenses) and the compliance & security of this all. We do this group wide, for our 20.000 employees across different countries. With more than 1100 suppliers, 3000 commercial applications and ~70 million euro yearly spend, you can imagine how important efficiency and compliancy is for us.

Working in this team, you will be responsible for cross-supplier security governance, covering all different requirements that suppliers need to comply with, in the Information and IT Security area, addressing them to contract owners and suppliers for execution. Your main KPI’s are:

• Supplier regulatory compliance
• Quality of collected information
• Supplier Audit initiation and follow up

You will be directly reporting to the unit Director and you will be working closely with IT and in accordance with Supplier & Order Management and Procurement colleagues. Your main activities will be to:

• Establish and chair IT cross-supplier security Governance
• Develop and maintain supplier register covering Criticality, Personal Data, NSI etc.
• Standardize the security requirements per category
• Own the Supplier Security Framework
• Monitor the compliancy to the security control framework
• Communicate regularly the compliance status to IT Management
• Participate in the tendering process for large IT awards

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate

Do you have a strong interest in cyber security and supplier management? Do you want to use your expertise to help us become fossil free within the next generation? And do you enjoy working in an ever changing, international environment?  Do you feel comfortable communicating with key suppliers and IT Management? Then this is your job! Furthermore, you bring:

• An academic degree in IT or related study
• Experience working at a large, international corporate, working on IT compliance, security protection areas and/or Supplier Management
• You feel comfortable making tough decisions and you have the ability to communicate them professionally
• Comfortable in English

Location: for this position you can choose to be based in Sweden (Solna; Gothenburg; Umea, Lulea); The Netherlands (Amsterdam), Poland (Katowice, Gliwice), Denmark (Kolding, Copenhagen) or Germany (Hamburg, Berlin). Most cooperation is being done virtually, but you will be expected to travel once or twice per month to one of these locations.

Additional Information

Our Offer

• We offer a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field.
• You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues
• A professional environment where your experience, knowledge and attitude will bring us one step further and the opportunity for you to grow further.
• A central office location with easy access by public transport.
• Furthermore, a healthy work-life balance (smart working) and time to develop your profession
• At Vattenfall you get the opportunity to work for a clean energy company that aims for creating fossil free energy within one generation.
• And last but not least; International and multi-cultural work environment with energetic, motivated colleagues that like to have fun as well!

More information

We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter via our website no later ten January 31st 2023. For information about the position, please contact Recruiter Folmer Koper +31 6 38710915.

At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity helps building a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. We continue to seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of gender, age, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.