Project Buyer

Star; Zoeterwoude; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Star is seeking a Project Buyer to handle direct equipment purchasing (valves, instrumentation, flow devices, etc.) and indirect goods, coordinating procurement across multiple projects within a small, flexible team. The role involves RFQ handling, contract negotiations, and close collaboration with project teams to ensure timely and compliant procurement.

You will work closely with the project execution teams, manage supplier performance, and contribute to avoiding bottlenecks in project

Qualifications

• Hands-on buyer with higher professional education, preferably with a technical background and NEVI 1.
• Several years of relevant experience in technical markets and project organizations.
• Good commercial sense and knowledge of legal and financial aspects of purchasing.
• Team player and able to communicate with engineering, strategic procurement, quality control and project management.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently and transparently with project execution teams.
• Ability to handle time pressure, act quickly, maintain overview and set priorities.

Responsibilities

• Send out requests for quotations, evaluate offers, negotiate and close contracts within targets.
• Signal bottlenecks in project execution and anticipate issues.
• Negotiate claim settlements.
• Communicate with department management and all project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the coordinator responsible for purchase orders in execution.
• Monitor supplier performance and initiate improvement actions.
• Perform standard administrative activities and provide information from these activities.

Skills

Hands-on buyer

Team player

Independent worker

Excellent communication

Education

Higher professional education

Job description

As Project Buyer you are responsible for the purchasing of direct equipment like control valves, flow devices, shut-off valves, steam silencers, instrumentation etcetera’s as well as indirect goods and services, and for the coordination and guidance of procurement work done within different projects. You work in a small and flexible procurement team and in close cooperation with project team members.

The role contains, among others, following tasks:

• Send out requests for quotations, evaluation of offers, negotiations and closing of contracts within the set targets;
• Signals bottlenecks in the project execution and anticipates them;
• Negotiate claim settlements;
• Communicates with the department management and all parties that are interested in the realization of the project;
• Work closely together with the coordinator who is responsible for the purchase order in execution;
• Monitoring of supplier performance and initiating improvement actions;
• Perform standard administrative activities and provide information/data produced from these activities to the parties concerned;

• We are looking for a hands-on and buyer with higher professional education, preferably with a technical background and NEVI 1.
• You have moderate years relevant experience in technical markets and project organizations. You have a good commercial sense and a clear affinity with and knowledge of legal and financial aspects of purchasing.
• You are a team player and able to communicate and cooperate with different disciplines like engineering, strategic procurement, quality control and project management
• Your communication skills are excellent and you are able to work independently. Considering that we work in a project organization, it is essential that your work is transparent for your colleagues and that you carefully align your work with the department / project execution teams.
• We have multiple projects / activities running in parallel, so you should be able to handle time pressure, act quickly, maintain the overview and structure, and set correct priorities