Senior Project Buyer
EuroSort 's-Graveland
What is required?
- Completed (commercial) bachelor's degree, preferably supplemented with NEVI 2
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience in a similar role, preferably in machinery construction
- Commercially oriented and excellent negotiation skills
- Excellent command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written
- Affinity with technology
What will you get?
- €4.000 - €5.000 gross p/m (depending on knowledge and experience)
- 32 to 40-hour work week
- 30 vacation days
- Opportunity to follow training, education, and courses
- Working from home opportunities, bonus scheme
- Daily fresh fruit, Friday afternoon drinks, monthly joint lunch
- Company phone and laptop
What will you do?
- 25% Developing and implementing innovative purchasing strategies
- 20% Performing market analysis in collaboration with Sales
- 20% Supporting project manager and project trajectory
- 15% Improving purchasing processes in terms of quality and optimization
- 10% Advising and mentoring junior colleagues
- 5% Fulfilling other tasks and responsibilities
- 5% Conducting team meetings and stimulating collaboration
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
Vacancy
Acquisition based on this advertisement is not appreciated. We usually fill the vacancies ourselves and in exceptional cases we work with preferred suppliers.
As a Senior Project Buyer at EuroSort, you are responsible for developing and implementing innovative purchasing strategies, specifically focusing on high-quality equipment such as cameras, conveyors, and box sealing machines. These strategies aim to enhance operational efficiency, strengthen EuroSort's competitive position, and increase the quality of the sorting systems. As this role is a new position within the company, you will have significant room to develop and shape it.
You will also have a unique opportunity to define the role and impact the company's future purchasing strategy. You will act as a mentor and advisor to junior colleagues in the Purchasing team, sharing your expertise and experience to contribute to their professional development.
Additionally, you will closely collaborate with the Sales department to conduct in-depth market analyses. This way, you can identify the most cost-effective and technologically advanced equipment. Furthermore, you will be deeply involved in the entire project trajectory, supporting the Project Manager. You will identify opportunities for savings and improvements and take the initiative in addressing challenges during implementation. Lastly, you will continually monitor the quality of the purchased products and services and seek optimization opportunities.
You will become part of a diverse team of purchasing professionals, consisting of a Manager, three Buyers, a Purchasing Assistant, and a Pricing Engineer. Together, you will work on both daily purchasing activities and the strategic growth of the department and EuroSort as a whole.
If you are energized by optimizing the purchasing process and find it challenging to elevate the team to a higher level at the same time, then this is the job for you.
Working week
On an enjoyable day, you receive an interesting functional specification from your technical colleagues, for which you find a suitable supplier. This supplier makes a difference in the quote, allowing you to successfully land the assignment.
On a less enjoyable workday, some of the stakeholders fail to keep their promises, jeopardizing the project planning. Together with the team, you do everything possible to still successfully complete the project.
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- Reading and replying to emails
- Lunch
- Department meeting
- Developing and implementing innovative purchasing strategies
- Supporting the team
- Negotiating with suppliers
- Performing market analyses in collaboration with Sales
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- Reading and replying to emails
- Internal discussions on quotation specifications
- Evaluatinf the quality of the purchased product
- Lunch
- Support the Project Manager
- Drafting contracts
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- Meeting with supplier
- Lunch
- Reading and replying to emails
- Creating a RFQ
- Following up on action items
- Supporting the team
- Supporting a project
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- Reading and replying to emails
- Lunch
- Supporting the team
- Developing and implementing innovative purchasing strategies
- Supporting a project
- Optimizing processes
- Reading and replying to emails
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- Processing offers
- Contact with Sales department
- Internal consultation
- Lunch
- Supporting the Project Manager
- Creating a RFQ
- Reading and replying to emails
Firsthand experience
Growth
EuroSort considers personal development very important. That's why there are many opportunities to attend education and training programmes, and courses. EuroSort is currently developing a training policy to make this more concrete.
Working at EuroSort
EuroSort B.V. is specialised in the development and assembly of high volume sorting systems for various applications. Think of order processing, returns, counting and sorting by size, colour, type of products, e-commerce and cross docking. The company was founded in 2001 and believes in qualitative simplicity. Therefore, the sorting solutions are always simple, robust and made of high quality materials and components. This combination creates a system that optimises the work process and makes it more efficient, saves valuable floor space and improves and increases productivity.
- Founded in 2001
- Headquarters in 's-Graveland
- Globally active, branches in the Netherlands, Spain and North America
- 180 employees
- Average age 45 years
- Hybrid working in office positions
- Safety workwear is mandatory in the warehouse and is provided by EuroSort
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