Source to Contract Buyer at FrieslandCampina

The Source-to-Contract Buyer is responsible for the facilitation/implementation of the category sourcing strategy by performing all sourcing plans for Procurement Categories globally and will closely cooperate with the category and/or business procurement managers.

The Source-to-Contract Buyer will take end to end responsibility of the sourcing to the contracting processes and a proper handover to PSSC for content creation. This will mean among other tasks: set up, lead tender events, analyse, negotiate autonomously or along with category or business procurement managers, contract, on/off-board suppliers.

Thereby the Source-to-Contract Buyer will have an important contribution to develop the Source-to-Contract Team to a more and more professional level and by increasing capabilities, implementing efficiencies, improving processes, speed and quality. They will achieve it by creating trust and engaging the category and/or business procurement managers to take over all sourcing activities, as well as other procurement operations colleagues on sourcing related activities, thus driving best-in-class results and compliance

What we ask

• At least 3-5 years of experience in the field of Procurement at a multinational company or a Shared Service organization
• End to end understanding of the source to pay process
• Experience in building RFx events
• Understanding of e-Sourcing methodologies
• Able to quickly and accurately analyse, conclude and summarize results
• Reporting experience
• Knowledge of Procurement processes
• Comfortable with ERP and e-sourcing tools
• Proven experience with (category/business) Procurement
• Proven experience with process and system optimization
• Strong internal stakeholder management
• Supplier management
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Good proficiency at presenting and influencing
• Strong negotiation skills
• Attention to details
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to make decisions on own level
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Change agility
• Result-orientation
• Strong resilience
• “owner’s mindset”: ability to work collaboratively for the company’s best interest beyond silos
• Tools knowledge and ability to challenge tool providers for improvement. (Indicative) list of tools: Ariba, Keelvar, Finscan, Duns & Bradstreet, Coupa CLM, SafeFood360, SAP (viewing), SQM
• Advanced proficiency in MS office tools, especially in Excel
• Excellent English
• Dutch or any additional European language skill is an advantage