Sr. Operational Procurement Officer

Sr. Operational Procurement Officer

Department

Global Procurement is looking for a Sr. Procurement Operations Officer

Position & Requirements

Profile
A suitable candidate has 2 years-experience as a Procurement Operations Officer, preferably in the financial services industry. The candidate must have proven hands-on experience in (P2P) procurement processes or Workday as procurement system. The candidate can work in a small team where knowledge sharing and collaboration is very important.

Primary tasks

• As a Senior Procurement Operations Officer you are responsible for supporting Category Third Party Managers (CTPM) for a certain category of products and/or services,
• Maintaining a correct and complete Contract- & Vendor Administration
• Execute pre-defined purchase requests (Requisitions) within terms of Master Agreements
• Preparing (complex) Purchase Orders (PO’s) for the CTPM
• Validating invoices and resolve exceptions
• Monthly Finance reporting
• Acting as a backup for your colleague Operational Procurement Officers

Knowledge and experience

• Bachelor degree education and work level
• 2+ years-experience in Procurement Operations or a similar role/function
• Familiar with AI (Co-pilot / Chat GPT)
• Proficient in the Dutch as well as English language (written and spoken).
• You are positive, accurate and flexible, have an analytical mindset and problem-solving aptitude
• You have a 'can do' mentality and you are eager to contribute to be in-control in your domain
• A team player with organizational sensitivity;
• You are able to spot opportunities to improve our Operational Procedures; (Contract Administration / Purchase to Pay / Source to Contract)

Behavioral skills such as hands-on, pro-active, team player, pragmatic with a "can do" mentality, good communication, organization sensitivity, ability to connect;

Additional skills

• Creating and maintaining Operational Procedures & Working descriptions
• Linking pin to our IT-colleagues, coordinating system improvements on behalf of Procurement.
• Administrator for Worldcheck by LSEG (Know your vendor software)
• Back-up for the Team Manager on Priorities, being first point of contact and initiating alignment calls.

Behavioral skills

• Professional skepticism towards CTPM and Management Team (E.g. usual business-suspects within the category, during Procurement Board)
• Pro-active- and consulting attitude in:
  • Helping junior colleagues
  • Helping Management
• Having a positive mindset and show exemplary behavior
• Collaborating
• Time Management
• Communicative
• Problem Solving
• Ownership
• Adaptibility

About Us

As a Dutch asset manager operating globally, Robeco has always combined the best of both worlds. We have global reach and ambitions, while retaining our head office in our hometown of Rotterdam. Employees at Robeco share that combination: we hire and nurture people who can think internationally and put the client first, while keeping their feet firmly on the ground. We have strong links with academia, which underpin the research in our robust quantitative and sustainability investing strategies. Our people have backgrounds in finance but also in economics and geography. Likewise, as pioneers in emerging markets investing, our diverse backgrounds also add local knowledge. We offer an informal and flexible office atmosphere that gives people the room to be themselves, to grow and to perform to the best of their ability.