EU Commodity Buyer

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Food organisation, based in Zuid-Holland Netherlands.

The Company

Are you looking for:
- Sustainable procurement principles and an organisation that has a mission to improve the earth's condition?
- An independent buying position with a European scope?
- An ambitious, multicultural organisation in an agile environment?

Do you bring:
- A BSc or MSc?
- Experience with commodity buying, preferably in a food/ fmcg environment?
- Or experience with the edible oils production process.
- An entrepreneurial and ambitious mindset?

For questions, contact me via j.spape@sire-search.com

Role Description

The European Buyer Oils is responsible for commodity procurement by coordinating procurement resources and leveraging global and cluster supplier network to deliver on supply chain and global targets. The portfolio covers all liquid oils e.g. rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil. Or tropical oils.

Responsibilities

- Actively involved in the design and implementation of commodities strategy (primary focus on Oils and Fats).
- Analyze and develop deep understanding of the supply markets, including external economic factors which influence those markets.
- Prepare information on purchase prices and conditions and support the financial analysis of the portfolio, including price benchmarking and total cost analysis.
- Identifying and building partnerships with key suppliers on an operational level (incl. contract management) and manage supplier compliance.
- Act as a key contact for factories regarding in time delivery, quality and supplier service of oils portfolio.
- Monitor overall performance of the supply network and ensure continuous improvement.
- Execute cost savings and support deployment of innovation agenda at global and regional levels.
- Drive implementation of the Sustainability agenda in your Procurement area.

Requirements

- Higher professional education / university degree (BSc or MSc).
- Experience in a commodities company, or within Oils & Fats is an advantage.
- Experience in ingredients buying and Commodity risk management experience is a plus.
- Experience with large-scale change management projects and in international assignments are a plus.
- Negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficient in both verbal and written English communication.
- Enjoy working in a virtual and multicultural working environment.

Other information

- Internal contacts: Procurement Global and Cluster teams, Supply Chain teams, R&D team, Legal team, Marketing team, Finance business partners
- External contacts: Suppliers: Commercial and Top management (CEO’s) of Key Suppliers, Agents, professional organization, industry bodies and 3PM, NGO’s, advisors and benchmarking organizations
- Travel globally for Supplier meetings, Industry meetings, project meetings and team meetings.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Joost Spape.