(Senior) Project Buyer (Maritime)

Organization

Our client is a leading global services provider operating in the dredging, maritime infrastructure and maritime services sectors. The company provides creative and innovative all-round solutions to infrastructural challenges in the maritime, coastal and delta regions of the world with the construction and maintenance of ports and waterways, land reclamation, coastal defense and riverbank protection.

Job profile

Responsibilities:

• The (Senior) Project Buyer will be responsible for the entire procurement process for the purchase of equipment, materials and services, within an acceptable timeframe and against the optimum market conditions.
• The (Senior) Project Buyer will take the lead in composing, implementing and managing market, product group and/or supplier strategies.
• An active contribution to the agreed company and department objectives is expected and the (Senior) Project Buyer will represent the Procurement Department in several project teams. 
• The (Senior) Project Buyer will report on a Project bases to the Project Managers and on all other matters to the Head of Procurement.

Procurement process responsibilities

• Specifying of cost for goods and services
• Cross functional specifying composing proposal budgets, conditions and planning
• Being the knowledge center for specific products groups
• Creating Project Procurement plans

Selecting suppliers

• Pre qualifying suppliers and managing the preferred supplier list
• Lead the request for quotation process
• Lead and initiate the negotiation process
• Selecting suppliers based on solid bid evaluations and advising project teams
• Creating commercial bid comparisons
• Contracting:
• Contracting suppliers based on standard T&C or customized contract
• Cross functional development of contracts
• Contract management and expediting until delivery and receipt

Evaluation

• Project close out evaluation of suppliers
• Agree on and implement improvement
• Claim handling process

Job requirements

• Completed bachelor degree (technical) and preferably Nevi I & II
• Broad procurement experience, within the field of offshore
• At least 10 years relevant experience in an international project wise environment
• SAP experience
• Fluent in Dutch and English, both written and spoken
• Sharp negotiator
• Competences:
• Communication, clear in writing as well as orally
• Entrepreneurship, recognize possibilities and threats and act pro-active
• Goal orientation, focusing on achieving goals and on time delivering
• Analytical, separate important and less important matters and find correlations
• Negotiation skill and capabilities

Salary conditions

• Engaging international working environment in a modern working location
• Challenging position with corresponding responsibilities
• Excellent remuneration package
• Wide range of career opportunities, personal and professional growthor people

Interested?

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