Technical Category Buyer

Together with your colleagues, you will be responsible for your assigned product group: machinery. The machinery group is responsible for purchasing the equipment and spare parts of all engines, engine room and hydraulic related products and cranes for both the Dredging and Offshore fleet. Additionally, you will advise project teams on the purchases of these product group. From day one, you will be involved in the entire procurement process, from the request for quotation to the receipt of parts or installations in the warehouse (or on a project site). In short, as a category buyer, you play a key role in ensuring the procurement process runs smoothly from A to Z.

Your responsibilities as a technical category buyer:

• Based on the specifications of requests in our system, select which suppliers can competitively offer the requested products or services. This means that you request competitive quotations from the suppliers you have selected.
• Evaluate the received quotations and present them to the internal and together decide on a supplier.
• Place an order and handle the procurement order with the selected supplier.
• Monitor the delivery process. This involves ensuring that the order is delivered according to the quotation and on time at the correct location. This could be at our distribution center or, for example, at a project site abroad.
• Provide support in executing and developing the sourcing strategy and the source-to-contract process.

What you bring as a technical category buyer:

• A completed MBO+/HBO education in a technical field is pre. Logistics, supply chain management or business administration plus technical experience could fit as well.
• Several years of experience as an operational buyer, preferably in a technical environment.
• Excellent command of both Dutch and English.
• Affinity with the maritime and offshore industry.
• You take initiative and have strong communication skills.

We offer

• A dynamic environment: A job that allows you to collaborate with a talented team of experts from different backgrounds and contribute to making a significant impact.
• Rewarding conditions: A competitive salary and much more, including holiday allowance, holiday entitlement of 26 days (based on a full-time contract) and a number of collective scheduled days off, a non-contributory pension scheme, collective schemes such as company health insurance and travel allowance.
• Career development: We offer you plenty of opportunities to bring out the best in yourself for example through (online) courses at our Boskalis academy.
• The Boskalis campus: Experience the unique Boskalis vibe at our Papendrecht site, complete with restaurants, sports field, and a wharf where our vessels dock. We offer a state-of-the-art auditorium, brainstorming rooms, experience center for client meetings, and a barista corner where you can connect with colleagues.
• Boskalis project site: You will work on groundbreaking projects around the world. Boskalis creates new horizons and execute an extensive range of dredging and marine projects in 90 countries and across six continents.
• Young Boskalis: Are you under 36? Come and join Young Boskalis! Have fun and join in social and sports activities ranging from pub quizzes to yoga, bootcamps and an annual sailing boat race. Networking and knowledge sharing are a vital part of Young Boskalis as well.

Extra information

• Your team: The central procurement team at Boskalis consists of approximately 30 dedicated colleagues. Your subteam machinery exist of 4 colleagues. Additionally, there is significant interaction with the supply chain department and our warehouse in Vlaardingen.

About Boskalis

Working at Boskalis is about creating new horizons and sustainable solutions. In a world where population growth, increase of global trade, demand for (new) energy, and climate change are driving forces, we challenge you to make your mark in finding innovative and relevant solutions for complex infrastructural and marine projects.

Interested?

We are more than happy to answer your questions about the position of technical category buyer. Please contact Tim Gouweleeuw, Recruiter via tim.gouweleeuw@boskalis.com.