Job description
Our client is a Dutch shipbuilder of navy vessels, with customers all over the world. For them, we are looking for a Tactical Purchaser (Germany) for a project-based position.
Responsibilities:
- 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 maintain 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
Job requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in a technical direction such as Mechanical Engineering
- 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 German and English language (written & verbal)
- Ability to travel long distances and to work abroad at locations in Germany as well as in The Netherlands
- Competences: customer orientation, teamwork, results orientation, behavioural flexibility, quality orientation, planning and organising, problem analysis, decisiveness, negotiating, persuasiveness, and initiative
- EU citizenship or EU work visa is required
- A background check will be part of the selection procedure
Our offer
- Salary: up to € 5000,- gross per month, depending on experience/education
- Annual leave: 27 days per year + 13 ADV
- Travel costs: € 10 per month for the first 10 km, then 0.19 cents per km. A T-tag is issued for employees who use the Westerscheldetunnel for commuting
