Buyer

Avantor Sciences; Hillegom; Hybrid; EUR 38,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays & ATV days

International environment

Growth opportunities

1-year contract

Pension, 13th month & bonus

Job summary

Avantor Sciences in Hillegom, Netherlands, is seeking a Buyer – Bioprocessing for a hybrid role. You will manage vendors, create POs, update master data, and support continuous improvement projects in a fast-paced environment.

Required is a Bachelor's in Logistics or related field with 1–3 years' experience, plus strong English and Dutch communication. We offer a small, international team and a stable, growing workplace with a 1-year contract and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business or equivalent.
• 1–3 years of experience as a Buyer.
• Good skills with MS Office; Epicor is a plus.
• Excellent English and Dutch written/spoken skills.

Responsibilities

• Support daily vendor management including PO creation and updates.
• Adjust delivery dates and run vendor scorecard reporting.
• Handle indirect vendors and vendor-managed inventory.
• Follow standard workflow and suggest improvements.
• Contribute to Continuous Improvement projects.

Skills

English-Dutch communication

Team player

Stress-resilient

Pro-active

Good communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Logistics or related

Tools

MS Office

Epicor (asset)

Job description

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.

The work we do changes people's lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world.

We set science in motion to create a better world and have done so for over 100 years.

Through our diverse and passionate global workforce of 14,000+ professionals – we've become a trusted provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries.

Thanks to our global infrastructure, our team's contributions reach many parts of the world and have a profound and positive impact on people's lives.

If you want to help us solve the world's most complex challenges and join an inclusive community that supports your career development – you belong here, with us.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Buyer- Bioprocessing to join our team in Hillegom .

Are you looking for a new professional experience in a fast-paced environment? Looking for a job in which no day is the same? Then this job might be perfect for you!

This is a hybrid role in which there is an option to work 1-2 days from home.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• You support daily management of vendors including PO creation, confirmations and updates, adjusts delivery dates, provides feedback to buyers regarding inventory position and runs reporting to populate vendor scorecards and helps facilitate monthly metric reviews.
• You utilize the daily purchasing workbench to perform performs ERP system updates for master data fields in conjunction with AFH master data policy, issue RMA's, coordinate communication on discontinuation of raw materials.
• You manage indirect vendors including vendor managed inventory for consumables
• You follow standard workflow established for the role and provides recommendations for improvements
• You work on the Continues Improvement projects

Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business or equivalent
• 1-3 years of experience as a Buyer.
• Good skills with software's s.a. MS Office, experience with Epicor is an asset.
• Good communication skills in English and Dutch, both written and spoken.
• Accurate, teamplayer, flexible.
• Stress-resistant, pro-active, solution-oriented.

• You get 25 holidays + 6 ATV days based upon fulltime (40-hr) contract
• You get the opportunity to work in an international organization at a small, cosy working location.
• You work in a growing environment and get the opportunity to contribute to this growth.
• You receive a 1-year contract, which will be extended after a positive evaluation.
• Next to a competitive salary, you receive attractive benefits s.a. pension scheme, 13th month and bonus.