Anders Westlund

Strategic Procurement Leader | Driving profitable growth, strong teams & sustainable business in an international environment

Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area

About

With over 20 years of experience in strategic sourcing, category and supplier management – and later as a business leader – I have led transformation journeys that improved results, increased customer satisfaction, and delivered measurable business impact. I thrive where business and people meet: in developing employees, negotiating with suppliers, and building a culture defined by openness, high engagement and clear direction. I bring international experience from across Europe and leadership background from both large matrix organizations and entrepreneur-led companies. I believe in leadership that is coaching, transparent, and courageous. Through strategic assortment planning, data-driven pricing, and close collaboration between procurement, sales and marketing, I have also contributed to driving revenue growth and improving profitability in several organizations. 🚀 Focus areas: Strategic sourcing | CPO/CEO roles | Growth & profitability | Sustainable value chains | International expansion | Team & culture development 🔑 Core competencies: Results-driven leadership | Strategic business development | Coaching leadership | Sales & growth | Assortment & pricing strategies | Procurement strategy | Budgeting & financial follow-up | Cost control | Operational efficiency | Profitability | Customer satisfaction | FMCG | Operational excellence | Category & supplier management 📲 Feel free to reach out: [email protected] or +46 72 084 3500

Experience

  • CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer & receptbelagda läkemedel at Doz Apotek
    2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • CPO at Kemetyl AB
    2023 - 2024 · 1 yr

    📎 Reporting to the CEO and active member of the executive management team. 📎 Establishment of two new business areas: industry and hygiene. 📎 Responsible for Kemetyl's purchasing, including both direct and indirect materials. 📎 Procurement and cost-saving projects. 📎 Identified and developed an innovative packaging solution that can increase customer satisfaction, reduce environmental impact, and improve productivity in production.

  • CPO at ApoEx
    May 2020 - May 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    ApoEx simplifies and improves care in Sweden and supplies the public and private sector with pharmacepticals and consumables. 📎 Founded a strategic purchasing function at the company and responsible for five strategic purchasers and one purchasing assistant. 📎 Responsible for the company's wholesale business. 📎 Identified projects for the board in order to make the company grow with increased profitability and quality. 📎 Management of competitor placement of both direct and indirect material with the aim of increasing profitability. 📎 Developing a new process with the aim of simplifying purchases for customers, increasing delivery precision and greatly increasing profitability. 📎 Business continuity management: development of a Code of Conduct towards suppliers, clarification of responsibility for company-critical suppliers, creditworthiness analyzes with the aim of preventing future supplier disruptions and mapping of the company's environmental impact. 📎 Created internal incentive model in order to motivate focus on profit. 📎 Responsibility for budget and result. EBITDA improvement in the first year by 61% or SEK 14 million.

  • Inköpschef at Lifco Dental
    2015 - Apr 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos

    Lifco Dental purchases dental items from approximately 500 global suppliers to sales companies mainly in Sweden, Finland and Norway at a purchase value of half a billion kroner per year. 📎 Presentation during board meetings. 📎 Responsibility for reducing the company's direct and indirect costs. 📎 Responsible for Lifco Dental's five operational/tactical purchasers, HR manager and finance manager. 📎 Increase the company's delivery capacity to end consumers and reduced capital with less items in stock with the help of systematic data and action plans. 📎 Close collaboration with CEOs of Lifco's sales companies in Europe. Significant savings and increased the company's ability to deliver to customers and turnover ratio.

  • Category Manager at Praktikertjänst AB
    2012 - 2015 · 3 yrs

    Sweden's largest private company within Dentistry, is owned by the practitioners and focus on maximizing the care workers' time with the help of central administration. 📎 Responsible for dental purchases with a purchase value of one billion kroner per year. 📎 Started a purchasing advice team based on resource optimization and business benefit and converted category-specific business needs to procurement/sourcing projects. 📎 Exposed categories to competition. Added value to Praktikertjänst of just over SEK 200 million per year.