Buyer Capex - Vandemoortele DE - Belgique

Vandemoortele DE

Région

Belgique

About Vandemoortele

Vandemoortele is a leading European food group that manufactures and sells high-quality food products. Vandemoortele has two business lines; one in frozen bakery products and one in margarines, culinary oils and fats.

In Bakery Products, Vandemoortele offers throughout Europe a wide range of frozen bread products, pastry, sweet treats, patisserie and savoury products for professional users in the bakery and foodservice channels as well as for retailers, who appreciate the quality and convenience of Vandemoortele’s products.

In Margarines, Culinary Oils & Fats, Vandemoortele targets European professional users with a broad portfolio of products that combine processability, taste and flavour, as well as European retailers with private label margarines and frying fats. In addition, Vandemoortele has a number of strong consumer brands in the Benelux such as Vandemoortele®, Vitelma®, Diamant® and Gouda’s Glorie®.

In 2018, Vandemoortele realized a turnover of ca 1,4 billion euro. The Group is present in 12 European countries with 5,200 employees. The Vandemoortele headquarters are located in Ghent, Belgium.

Your Role:

As Buyer Capex, you are responsible to manage your spend: develop a purchasing strategy and group contracts for your categories. Together with your internal stakeholders, you will build a project planning to realize improvement targets for goods and services in collaboration with your Purchasing Manager Indirect Spend: optimization of specifications, value creation, process and flow improvements, innovation, …

In this function you will be working from our Food Experience Center in Ghent.

The key responsibilities are:

  • Develop and implement a purchasing strategy for your categories of goods and services.
  • Apply strategic sourcing process to negotiate, write and implement group contracts.
  • Build Supplier Relationship Management for your key suppliers.
  • Assure contract management, roll-out and follow-up.
  • Build cross-functional teams to understand the stakeholder’s requirements and opportunities for improvement and standardization within the Vandemoortele Group.
  • Develop strong stakeholders’ relationships to assure a good collaboration and effective roll-out and build bridges between your diverse internal stakeholders.
  • Identify opportunities and make a project timing to achieve KPI’s and value creation based on spend analysis and priorities with your stakeholders and your manager.
  • Reporting and follow-up of KPI’s.
  • Play an active role in the development and the roll-out of digitalization of procurement within the Vandemoortele Group.
  • Act as a center of expertise of professional purchasing for your categories within the Vandemoortele Group.
  • Report to the Purchasing Manager Indirect Spend.

Your Profile

  • You hold a Master degree (Economics, Engineering, Business Engineer, etc.) combined with several years of relevant experience in purchasing and/or project management.
  • Above all you are ambitious, energetic, driven and open to receive and give challenges. Your drive and enthusiasm will motivate you to go the extra mile in engaging others.
  • You have strong negotiation skills and you are able to create trustful relations.
  • Your excellent communication and persuasion skills enable you to motivate, drive and engage your internal (engineering, production,…) and external stakeholders.
  • You have a well-developed analytical, conceptual and synthetic mindset. At the same time, you are pragmatic, problem-solving and looking for initiative.
  • You are proactive and stress-resistant.
  • You are able to work together on major projects and you like to take ownership.
  • You are a well-structured and have strong organizational and project management skills.
  • You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal, in English and French/Dutch.
  • You are willing to travel 10% of your time (short trips and fairs).


What’s in for you?


We offer you challenging work with a great purpose in an international company having a dynamic, driven and ambitious culture and a collegial atmosphere. You will get all chances to grow within a people oriented and value driven environment, where cooperation, respect and ambition are key. You will receive an attractive salary and will enjoy all fitting extralegal advantages.

In this vacancy we work togheter with our partner Purson, they will provide you feedback and be your first contact.

If you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]

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