Data Scientist Procurement

Shape the future of Procurement by transforming high‑quality data into powerful insights, driving smarter decisions through advanced analytics, AI, and automation.

Do you like to play a central role in building reliable data foundations and ensuring our systems deliver trustworthy, actionable insights? Your work will directly enable smarter sourcing, stronger supplier management, and a more intelligent, future‑ready Procurement. Then Canon Production Printing in Venlo is looking for you!

Job description

This role is part of the global Procurement organization, consisting of approximately 60 professionals. The organization is structured into multiple teams operating globally from Venlo, Poing, and Singapore, collectively responsible for the procurement of all products and services. Key stakeholders are manufacturing and R&D, who are jointly responsible for the development, manufacturing, and on-time delivery of best‑in‑class, high‑mix, low‑volume CPP products. Besides these stakeholders our suppliers are also key for our success.

What you’ll do

In this role, you deliver data‑driven insights and advanced analytics that empower Procurement teams to make informed decisions and strengthen the support provided to Procurement Account Managers. You contribute to the development of procurement data products and dashboards, while generating insights that support negotiations, trend analysis, and strategic decision‑making through both Operational Excellence tools and exploratory analytics.

A key focus is improving data quality and making data more accessible in a structured and sustainable way. This provides the foundation for future predictive models, such as spend forecasting and supplier risk management. Alongside cleaning and enriching procurement data, you also work on developing AI‑driven models and tools that enhance Procurement processes.

You will also play a crucial role in rolling out analytics and AI tools across Procurement teams, ensuring continuous improvement of master data quality through effective monitoring and follow‑up. Alignment with our Operational Excellence team on data improvement and system upgrade initiatives is an important part of the role. You need to connect to support seamless system and data integration. The impact of this position spans multiple areas:

• Maintain and improve data quality and make data more accessible in a structured and sustainable way.
• Support predictive analytics to anticipate market trends, optimize costs, and strengthen supplier risk management.
• AI‑driven supplier analytics that help identify best‑fit suppliers based on quality, competitiveness, and compliance.
• Increased efficiency through automation and smart AI tools, enabling Procurement to focus more on tactical and strategic work.

Who you’ll work with

You will work within an international team of Procurement professionals. While your home base will be in Venlo, you will collaborate closely with colleagues in Singapore and Munich (Poing). You will report directly to the Procurement Manager, but your success depends on actively engaging with all teams and stakeholders across the Procurement organization. In addition, you will work closely with our Operational Excellence team to align with both the short‑ and long‑term system landscape and improvement initiatives.

What you bring

To succeed in this role you need:

• A strong foundation in structural data improvement, ERP systems, automation, and AI.
• 2–5 years of experience in this domain, ideally gained in a production or manufacturing environment.
• A Masters degree preferable in Applied Mathematics, Industrial engineering, Data Sciece or Computer Science.
• Experience with SAP, database technologies, and hands‑on AI or machine‑learning applications will give you a significant advantage.
• If you would combine above with Procurement experience that would even tick an additional box.

What you’ll get from us

A job in an international, high‑tech organization where you will play a key role in shaping the future of Procurement. You will contribute to a diverse range of projects across all Procurement departments, helping the organization advance in data, AI, and automation. Your work will directly support our journey toward a more intelligent, data‑driven, and future‑ready Procurement function.

• 38 vacation days (full-time)
• Extra 13th month pay (8,6%), holiday allowance (8%) and commuting allowance
• Hybrid working for a healthy work-life balance
• A huge range of training and professional development opportunities
• A laptop and smartphone
• An interesting lease (e-)bike plan

About Canon Production Printing

We develop and manufacture high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market as part of Canon, a global leader in imaging technologies. With around 3,300 employees across three continents and our headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands, we empower our people to grow, take initiative, and make an impact.