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Junior Operations and Buying Specialist / start asap / fulltime

SIRE Life Sciences®

Netherlands, zagranica

SIRE Life Sciences®

Junior Operations and Buying Specialist / start asap / fulltime

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

The company is Mars, location Oud Beijerland.

Role Description

Due to increase in NPD and growth in our buy to sell strategy this role is needed until end of 2019 to provide Commercial operational support on new Innovations from our Comanufacturing Network and Buying support for non strategic portfolios currently sourced by Regional Buying Teams.

- Role will give full support to and will receive guidance from Co-manufacturing sourcing manager.
- 8 NPD projects for delivery end 2019
- 6 new supplier qualifications
- Supplier based in EU and Asia
- Feed Value leadership ideas into 2020 pipe line for comanufacturing (4% saving).
- Collaborates with Supplier Quality Assurance, Global and Regional Strategic Sourcing Teams and other involved functions on a monitoring of supplier performance to make sure that all materials are purchased in compliance to EMQM/MQM (quality standards), internal and external policies, quality standards and requirements of Social Responsibility Audit and the Quality Audit.

Responsibilities

The Commercial Operations/buying Specialist is responsible for an operational excellence in the following key areas for Direct Materials:
- Excellence in execution of NPD comanufacturing projects.
- Establishment of processes & procedures related to various materials categories,
- Implementing Sourcing strategy’s in supply sites
- Support and execution of Value Creation initiatives to deliver COGs 4% targets
- Effective support of new product launches
- Being onsite ambassador for commercial and first point of contact for all comanufacturing escalations
- Managing buying, negotiation, RFQ of smaller categories such as starch and pasta.
- Support communications to key stakeholders
- Project manage NPD and new supplier activities
- Represent commercial function in ATG

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree; Procurement, Logistics/Materials Management preferred
• 2 years of Procurement/Supply Chain experience in a progressive Procurement environment preferred;
• Ability to work under pressure, high level of stress resistance
• Solid computer skills; experience in SAP systems is a plus
• Effective communicator; excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to represent commercial in local SCMR, MQM, review meetings when required.
• Negotiation
• Ability to travel (app. 15% of time)

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