Procurement Coordinator

Dozens of companies work together within Emil Frey Nederland. This offers opportunities to organize procurement more smartly and effectively. As a Procurement Coordinator, you bring together the needs of various companies, analyze where the largest procurement expenditures and opportunities lie, and translate these into organization-wide procurement initiatives.

You work at the intersection of analysis, advice, and collaboration. You help build the central procurement organization that is further developing, where you will be given plenty of room to truly make a difference with your ideas.

You visit our companies and speak with directors, managers, and colleagues to identify procurement needs, bottlenecks, and opportunities. You then translate these into joint procurement processes and concrete agreements with suppliers.

An important part of your work is the Central Procurement Platform (CIP). Here, you work together with the directors of the various companies within Emil Frey Nederland. You prepare topics in terms of content, share analyses, and advise on joint procurement agreements. In doing so, you make an important contribution to the choices made regarding strategic procurement.

You understand how strategic procurement works and find it interesting to investigate where processes can be designed more smartly or efficiently. You are curious and quickly know how to get to the core of an issue. You easily establish contact with various stakeholders and know how to bring diverse interests together into a supported solution.

You take initiative and do not wait for a question to come to you. You seek out the organization, signal opportunities, and turn ideas into concrete improvements. In doing so, you enjoy working together with colleagues and are open to learning from one another.

Your responsibilities include, among other things:

• Analyzing procurement expenditures and opportunities for economies of scale and cost optimization;
• collecting and bundling procurement needs from the various companies and translating these into joint procurement initiatives;
• drafting, managing, and securing framework agreements and contractual arrangements;
• maintaining and assessing supplier relationships;
• independently initiating improvement projects and new procurement opportunities.