The client of Personato Werving en Selectie is an international company in office supplies.

The culture at this company is flexible, dynamic, no nonsense, professional, international.

Purpose of position:
To support the procurement department through taking responsibility for a wide range of procurement related administrative activities such as, but not limited to, the set-up of product data, the analysis of tenders, E-Auctions and line reviews. The preparation of and communication of price changes in the organization and the preparation of vendor analysis and vendor scorecards.
Work together as a team, each supporting a dedicated group. As a result, the procurement department will be able to accomplish their plans and budgets in a more effective way.

Primairy Accountabilities:

• Supports a dedicated group of purchasers with various tasks related to procurement processes.
• Liaises with vendor offices to obtain all vendor and product data to ensure the accurate set up of SKU related data in the systems.
• Creates vendor, product and price records in the Retec Merchandising System and to maintain accurate system data.
• Ensures accurate and timely communication of product related data to all stakeholders (MSG, Regional Merchandising and P&S, Sales, Supply Chain).
• Communicates cost prices changes to the various regions to allow for sales prices recalculations in the regions using the European cost price process.
• Supports purchasers with managing the introduction of new vendors and de-listing of existing vendors.
• Supports the preparation of all requirements for Tenders (Pre and Post) – e.g.
• Prepare product data analysis (price, volumes), vendor communication, planning.
• Prepares and maintain performance scorecards to provide performance visibility of a vendor to procurement management and purchasers.
• Develops, organizes and maintains a vendor record filing system.
• Distribution of European supplier performance reports.
• Various administrative tasks to support the purchasing functions other then described.

Reporting to: Procurement Manager Europe

The candidate we search for has:

• Professional Education (MBO+).
• 2 years+ experience.
• Experience of working within a team involved with product and vendor management.
• Knowledge of products and of the office products industry preferable.
• Strong organizational skills.
• PC literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) AS400, SAP, MicroStrategy preferred.
• Ability to analyze statistics and spot trends.
• Well-organized.
• Able to work under pressure and to deadlines.
• Analytical mindset, pragmatic approach, team player, good communication skills.
• Fluent in English, spoken and written.
• Additional language like Dutch, German, French etc. an advantage.
• Flexible and customer Focused.

Good terms of employement. Good primairy salary and secundair terms of employement like 36 days.