As Project Buyer, you are responsible for further optimising the operational and tactical procurement process. You are continuously looking for structural improvements and cost savings for all procurement-related processes. You translate the technical issues of our customers into the procurement of the right products of the best quality at the right price. In this role, you intensively work together with your planning, logistics and engineering colleagues. 

Your responsibilities as Project Buyer

• Monitor and optimise supplier performance relating to quality, delivery lead time, flexibility and cost efficiency.

• You proactively analyse current and future technical installations and machinery at the technical component level, after which you start looking for new partners or possible forms of collaboration.

• Perform benchmarking and contract negotiations on the basis of a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) perspective.

• You provide direction for standardising and professionalising the current procurement and logistics process, and the organisation.

• Naturally, your primary responsibility is to ensure that specific manufactured parts, commodities and services are purchased at the right time, at the best quality and at a good price.

• With a critical view and an open attitude, you proactively and continuously assess all opportunities to structurally reduce costs and optimise profit, without compromising quality.
  

What we expect from you

• You have a vocational (MBO+) or professional (HBO) education (preferably in a technical field), and you have completed the Dutch Association for Procurement Management (NEVI) I and II training programmes.

• You have two to eight years’ experience in a tactical and operational procurement position, preferably in an international technical working environment, such as mechanical engineering, the metal industry, electrical engineering, a production environment or equivalent.

• You are a self-starter with a no-nonsense and hands-on approach and you are a real team worker.

• A critical and positive outlook. You are enterprising, resolute and results-oriented.

• Experience with comprehensive outsourcing processes, procurement of complete modules and supplier development. Knowledge and experience with machining, extrusion techniques and assembly processes is a clear preference for us.

• You know how to separate matters of importance from matters of secondary importance, you are confident and are able to hold your own in discussions with suppliers, as well as the internal organisation.

Interested or do you have any questions?

If this job seems like a good match for you, I would very much like to meet you. Please send your application via backoffice@careerinvestors.nl
If you have any questions, please call Bas Witmer, Managing Consultant via
+31(0)6 5378 2956

About our customer Royal Pas Reform

Royal Pas Reform is an international company which has specialised in the development of innovative, single-stage hatchery solutions for the poultry sector since 1919. The company has earned its position as one of the world’s leading hatchery equipment manufacturers through decades of research into the biological and physiological aspects of embryo development. This, combined with a thorough understanding of all aspects of the poultry production chain and a dedicated focus on the future, places Pas Reform as the only single-source supplier of integrated hatchery solutions in the world today.

Royal Pas Reform exports to more than 100 countries. Sales and service activities are carried out via three main offices: Pas Reform in the Netherlands, Pas Reform do Brasil in Brazil and Pas Reform North America in the USA. The Company also has eight sales offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America and an extensive network of local partners and agents.