Strategic Sourcing Manager Hired Services

Make a Difference as a Strategic Sourcing Manager Hired Services

What do we offer?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

What do you bring?

• Een aanpakkersmentaliteit
• Een gezonde dosis energie
• Passie voor je vakgebied

Why Ahold Delhaize?

• Huge Impact
• Work with fun and smart colleagues
• (Inter)national growth opportunities

How you can make a difference

As our Strategic Sourcing Manager Hired Services you will join the front-runner in retail to work on establishing competitive Hired Services related deals for all our European retail brands.

About Ahold Delhaize
We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment
In this role, you will be part of the NFR Netherlands team responsible for strategic sourcing within the Hired Services category on local and European levels. Therefore, experience in sourcing within the Hired Services category is key. You have proven experience in Payment Solutions and other financial services, Mobility solutions, Consultancy and/or Facility services.

Not For Resale sourcing (NFR) is organized to optimally leverage Ahold Delhaize’s footprint in Europe and drive Ahold Delhaize’s saving programs. As Strategic Sourcing Manager in Europe, you work together in cross-border category teams to run European and local sourcing events. We are a European department with teams in 6 European countries where Ahold Delhaize is active. The NFR department is responsible for sourcing all Not for Resale goods and services. Collaboration with various stakeholders within our strong local brands enables us to act as one company towards our suppliers and provide better value for our brands.

Working within NFR means working with skilled colleagues and real sourcing and marketing experts. An open communication style characterizes the team; everyone helps each other and is flexible. You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continuously support you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role

• Developing and executing the Hired Services category strategy
• Selection and contracting of current and new suppliers
• Support internal stakeholders to excel in their business
• Create and manage a solid relationship with our suppliers

What’s in it for you?
Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

• A gross annual salary between €55.000 and €75.000
• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 45 vacation days per year (25,5 vacation days + 19,5 paid-leave days)
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

Requirements

• Combine a bachelor’s or master’s degree with around 5 years of relevant sourcing/procurement experience in Hired Services buying like Payment Solutions and other financial services, Mobility solutions, Consultancy and/or Facility services
• Have proven experience in delivering savings in (international) trade, sourcing or retail
• Have the ability to work with legal templates
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in Dutch as well as in English
• Strong negotiation skills
• You are willing to travel

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: Strong negotiating skills, outspoken communication skills in both Dutch and English and you’re willing to travel. In addition to these, a problem solving and result driven mindset, next to your enthusiasm will take you far.

Diversity & Inclusion
At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.

What matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”
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Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
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Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”
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