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About Flora Food Group
We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.
Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.
Location: Wageningen & Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hybrid
About the position
The oils procurement team has a pivotal role to play by applying the right sourcing strategies, maintaining relationships with suppliers and ensure excellent procurement operations and execution. We are recruiting for a Buyer Liquid oils Europe to deliver world class solutions in buying raw materials and support a sustainable growth of Flora FG!
You operate in the heart of the procurement process for oils and emulsifiers. The primary responsibility of this role is to work together with the procurement manager in overseeing the procurement process, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring timely and cost-effective procurement of goods and services. You have a valuable role to play to maintain and improve the quality of the right procurement strategies.
You assist in negotiating contracts, terms, and pricing with suppliers. You work closely together with the Commodity Risk Management team, planning team and Procurement Operations Team to support the contract management process and ensure a flawless contract execution. You also work closely with other functions such as R&D and Project implementation teams to work on value creation and innovation projects.
Also, you will:
- Conduct market research and analysis to identify potential suppliers and evaluate their capabilities, pricing, and quality of goods/services.
- Support contract management processes, including reviewing and drafting contracts, monitoring contract expiration dates, and facilitating contract renewals.
- Act as a key contact for the planning teams regarding in time delivery, quality, and supplier service of oils portfolio.
- Work closely together with the Procurement Operations colleague to develop & maintain supplier KPI scorecards and coordinate supply chain (improvement) projects, both internally and externally.
- Support the procurement team to implement Flora’s sustainability agenda in Edible Oils.
- Manage & solve issues with (key) suppliers, identify root causes and propose improvements.
- Take on additional responsibilities and projects as assigned.
So what does it take to be successful in this role?
You bring a higher professional education/university degree and some years of relevant work experience in Procurement or in an affiliated department in the edible oil industry. Bringing experience in ingredients buying and commodity risk management will help you be up and running quickly in the role. Proficiency in English (fluently written and spoken) is required. As a person, you demonstrate a high degree of personal integrity and interpersonal, negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills. You show strong analytical and problem solving skills and you can demonstrate high-level Excel skills (e.g. building dashboards and modelling budget).You bring high level of accuracy to the team and as a colleague you’re proactive, a self-starter and excellent communicator. You are persistent in getting things done. You enjoy working in a challenging, fast-moving, and multicultural working environment.
What’s Next?
If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now! The deadline to apply is February 12th.
We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.
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