Freight Sourcing and Procurement Specialist

APL Logistics; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Participation in global Cash Bonus Plan

Pension Plan

Regular training and development opportunities

Supportive working atmosphere

Various employee benefits

Job summary

A logistics company located in Rotterdam is seeking a Freight Sourcing and Procurement Lead Specialist. This role focuses on vendor management and procurement within logistics, ensuring profitability and quality vendor relationships. The ideal candidate should have proven logistics experience, procurement skills, and be fluent in Dutch and English. The company offers a supportive work environment with various benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in the logistics industry, preferably as an operator or in product/procurement.
• Experience as procurement coordinator or manager in logistics is a big plus.
• Hands-on mentality with strong relationship-building skills.
• Hands-on mentality with ability to manage daily tasks and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support rollout of global and EMEA vendor strategy.
• Maintain relationships, manage contractual agreements, and resolve operational disputes.
• Create and maintain customer tariffs for regular customers.
• Determine local sell rates aligned with market strategy.
• Translate buy into sell and provide input for tenders.
• Create and maintain customer tariffs for regular clients.
• Assist inside sales and share market information by country.

Skills

Logistics experience

Procurement skills

Effective communication

Relationship building

Office tools (Excel)

Fluency in Dutch

Fluency in English

Tools

Excel

Job description

Freight Sourcing and Procurement Lead Specialist

Join to apply for the Freight Sourcing and Procurement Lead Specialist role at APL Logistics.

At APL Logistics, we focus on connecting supply chains across Automotive, Consumer, Industrial, and Retail sectors, globally. Join us and discover how our business within this industry is dependent on our network of passionate colleagues, clients, and partners.

Together, we inspire business, drive trade, and make life run more smoothly for everyone – including you. Inclusive, welcoming, and supportive: we work as one. And as one, we deliver.

The Freight Sourcing and Procurement Lead Specialist is the crucial position between our customers and operations to ensure we run a profitable organization with quality vendors at the right price. By running an effective Procurement coordinator role, we are in control of our vendor spend and maximizing our margins, have minimized the risk with solidly formulated vendor quotations, contracts, and SLAs in place on all our major vendors and we are able to send a quick and quality response on quotes from existing and new customers for any freight costs purchased in our area Benelux, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and Italy.

Aside from the procurement part, the role has product components, which include development, updating forwarding products, collecting and sharing market information for freight forwarding products (ocean, land, air) from a country perspective.

Key Responsibilities

• Further set-out and support rollout of our global and EMEA vendor strategy


• Procuring, maintaining relationships, auditing, contractual agreements and supporting in operational disputes


• Providing and maintaining database for negotiation rates


• Determining local Sell rate in line with market and our strategy


• Supporting in translating buy into sell


• Providing instructions to Operations about the buy rates & sell rates & service provider & service details where a rate inquiry results in award of business


• Supporting operations or create FOB Quotes for operations


• Responding and providing input for tender from KAM, Sales, IFS and other key stakeholders


• Creating and maintaining customer tariffs for our regular customers


• Supporting on Inside Sales activities


• Collecting market information, supporting IFS with country-related market information for commercial / client updates


• Any ad-hoc task if required

Qualifications and Requirements

• Proven experience in the logistics industry, preferably as an operator or in product / procurement


• Experience as procurement coordinator or manager in the logistics is a big plus


• Effective communication, orally and in writing


• Hands on mentality


• Strong relationship builder


• Good skills of Office tools (Excel)


• Ability to manage daily tasks and prioritize activities


• Ability to deal with the interests of the customers and the interests of APLL


• Fluency in Dutch and English

We offer you

• Participation in our global Cash Bonus Plan


• Pension Plan


• Regular trainings and excellent development opportunities within APL Logistics globally


• Working in an open team with a supportive working atmosphere


• Various benefits for birthdays, marriage, childbirth, long service as appropriate


• Office located in the city of Rotterdam by the river


• Local and regional activities focused on employee engagement throughout the year

To learn more about APL Logistics please visit the website www.apllogistics.com and find us on social media.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Supply Chain


• Industries: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage