Stellenangebot
Strategic Purchaser (E&A)

Key accountabilities

As Tactical Purchaser (Project-Based) you will:

• Monitor and report on cost trends for key commodities.
• Ensure all supplier contracts are complete, properly executed and have considered all cost variables.
• Research, qualify and evaluate on a project basis (Int.) national suppliers & sub-contractors.
• Initiate market research and enhance supplier development to build up/maintain/ensure a suitable supply base.
• Drive improvement processes with suppliers based upon supplier qualification and/or evaluation.
• Participate in category management, define category strategies, implement and execute strategy.
• Provide reliable information for budget and cost price calculations.
• Develop and maintaining quotation evaluations and key figures.
• Execute and coordinate the purchase process(specifying, selecting, evaluating, contracting, contract mgmt., aftercare) according to applicable procedures and project boundaries.
• Set up proposals for standardization, develop framework contracts and monitor and maintain them.
• Ensure all HSEQ policies and procedures are in place, understood, owned, maintained and followed to ensure that a safe and healthy work environment.

Skills & experience

As Tactical Purchaser (Project-Based) you need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in a technical direction such as Mechanical Engineering supplemented with Nevi-1 and Nevi-2 or the willingness to attend these courses.
• Minimum of five years of experience in a technical environment with substantive knowledge of and experience with purchasing.
• Strong negotiation skills and assertiveness in combination with an independent, well structured, and hands-on mentality.
• Good command of the Dutch and English language (written & verbal) and mastery of German language is a plus, but not essential.
• Competences: customer orientation, teamwork, results orientation, behavioural flexibility, quality orientation, planning and organising, problem analysis, decisiveness, negotiating, persuasiveness, and initiative.
• Excellent antecedents as a pre-employment security screening and investigation are a part of the recruitment procedure (given the military nature of our projects).
• EU citizenship or valid EU work visa (this requirement is a must have).