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 depending on experience
• Annual leave: 27 days plus 13 days ADV
• Travel costs: € 10 per month for the first 10 km, then € 0.19 per km
• Pension benefit: employer 50% and employee 50%