Buying Assistant

Do you want to combine your love for purchasing, multitasking and retail within an international working environment? Do you like to grow into a buying team and create improvements within the team? That's possible with us!

As an buying assistant you will help with the development of cool products and offer support to the buyer in every area. This can be trend watching, doing market research and help finding white spots within specific product categories. You will form a team with our category buyers and project manager buying and give support in the proces of bringing products to the market.

Your tasks will further consist of:

• Coordinate and label incoming and outgoing product samples.
• Ordering market references.
• Market research, trend watching and making comparisons.
• Making price calculations for sales quotations.
• Testing of incoming product samples.
• Other supportive and administrative tasks to relieve the buyer, such as booking trips, making PowerPoints, managing samples etc..

About Karsten International

Karsten International is a fast-growing trading company in non-food consumer products. We supply products in the field of personal care, household and office supplies. Our organization, has quickly grown into a full-fledged player in the industry. Our customer base mainly consists of supermarkets and non-food retailers in Europe. We work with an enthusiastic team in an informal corporate culture.

Job requirements

Your talents:

• At least 2 years of relevant work experience and willingness to learn.
• Completed HBO education in purchasing and/or administration.
• Good command of the Dutch and English language, spoken and written.
• Excellent knowledge and command of Microsoft Office; advanced in the use of Excel.
• Reliable, accurate and good administrative skills.
• You have an affinity with retail.

What you can expect from us:

A great job within an enthusiastic team with an informal corporate culture. In addition to hard work, fun and collegiality are of paramount importance. Karsten International is in a phase of strong growth and development, so you have every opportunity to contribute to this.

Further:

• Space for personal growth and professional development
• An excellent pension scheme
• Travel allowance
• 13th month
• 8% holiday pay
• An extensive lunch
• Fresh fruit
• Freshly ground coffee
• Boot camp
• Yoga
• Its own football team
• Massage in the workplace
• Discount on cool products
• A weekly free lunch and fun company outings
• An Instagram-worthy and easily accessible office in Amsterdam
• A great team of colleagues