Purchasing and management advisor
Atlas College – Hoorn, Medemblik and Edam
Size
0.5 FTE
Employment
temporary with a view to permanent employment
Start date
May 1, 2027
Salary
pay scale 11 (Secondary Education Collective Labour Agreement)
Location
Atlas Service Centrum (ASC), Hoorn
Shaping the education of tomorrow together
The Atlas College is a foundation with five unique secondary schools (publicly funded) in Hoorn, Medemblik and Edam. Every day, we work towards meaningful education for pupils from VMBO up to and including VWO. The service centre supports our schools in the areas of finance, IT, communication, human resources and organisation, and education and quality.
Your duties:
- Professionally formulating our purchasing and procurement policy to be able to advise Atlas College and the schools in the field of efficient purchasing policies, contracts and supplier management; in addition to advising, implementation of the purchasingfunction also takes place.
- Identifying developments and opportunities within the field of education and translating these into concrete recommendations to optimize education and business operations.
- Ensuring the design and optimization of clear, workable procedures and guidelines regarding procurement, contract, and supplier management.
- Based on a spend analysis, you come up with a plan for how to procure more effectively and efficiently. Where possible, you look at ways to standardize processes.
- You will develop the multi-year purchasing plan together with colleagues at the schools, take care of producing the purchasing calendar and report on progress to the manager in the planning and control and quality assurance cycle.
- Based on clear analyses of key figures, you develop standards and norms for the products and services to be delivered. You also indicate where and how tenders must be conducted in accordance with the legislation and policies, and then youguide European and multiple-stage tenders, translating the requirements and wishes of colleagues into a clear call for tender.
- You ensure a professional and constructive relationship with our suppliers, creating a partnership, and you fulfill the role of supplier management.
- Based on your professional expertise, you participate in projects in the areas of business management, ICT, housing and facilities management. You organize periodic meetings with the facilities coordinators.
- In addition to responding to current procurement requests, you proactively initiate the conversation to map out future needs. In doing so, you consider both the efficiency, feasibility, and desirability of the initiative, as well as its budgetary impact.
- You scan opportunities for grant applications and inform the board of directors about them.
- You advise on the insurance portfolio, among other things in collaboration with the Finance team leader.
Who are you?
- Professional with Purchasing Experience
- HBO work and thinking level
- Training minimum level: Nevi 1
- Experience in independently executing purchasing processes, contract management, and tendering
- Knowledge of relevant laws and regulations regarding procurement and tenders
- Experience with financial analyses and the drafting of advice and policy documents
- Organisational sensitive, convincing and communicative, both verbally and in writing
- Careful and open attitude
- Affinity with education
- Coordination skills
You are a solid colleague who knows how to involve people in the work and processes of procurement, its administrative side, in collaboration, unity and change. You combine persuasiveness with sensitivity and easily build bridgesbetween diverse interests. Thanks to your analytical skills and communication skills, you are a reliable sparring partner for both colleagues and suppliers.
Why work at Atlas College?
- A meaningful function with impact.
- Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experienced colleagues.
- An organisation with flat hierarchies and open communication.
- Space for initiative, development and training.
Additionally, we offer:
- Salary in accordance with scale 11 (CAO VO).
- 8% holiday allowance and 8.33% end-of-year bonus.
- A good leave policy.
- Individual choice budget.
- Pension scheme with ABP.
- Travel allowance and cycle lease scheme.
For questions of a more substantive nature, you can contact Astrid Rijkhoff, advisor on people and organizations, via email: a.rijkhoff@atlascollege.nl
About Atlas College
Mission...Good education, good for each other!
Atlas College provides excellent education, tailored to each student. All students enjoy coming to school and encounter a pleasant, safe learning and living environment. As an employer and an education provider, Atlas College strives to teach employees and students to shine.“
...core values...
What does Atlas College stand for? What do we believe in, what connects us and who do we want to be? We summarise the answers to these questions in three Atlas-wide core values:
- Accessibility: Everyone is welcome, we have a place and an offer for everyone.
- Diversity: We learn from differences.
- Sustainability: We work and learn for now and tomorrow.
......and ambitions...
Besides the core values, the Atlas schools share three ambitions:
Valuable education for every pupil
This means:
- education that students value, as Atlas College makes every effort to ensure that they are active, eager to learn and meaningful at school;
- education that matches the individual talents and skills of the pupil as much as possible;
- education in which students feel seen, valued and challenged and satisfied with what they learn;
- education that promotes and embeds Atlas College's core values of accessibility, diversity and sustainability, thus supporting students in their process of making a difference in the society they live in from strength.
Valued performance
Atlas College wants to achieve performance that is valued by students, parents, further education and organisations we work with. In addition, Atlas College wants to be systematically accountable for the results achieved.
Powerful colleagues
Strong colleagues are needed to realise ambitions. They are colleagues who can and want to take control of their own tasks and development and remain in dialogue about them. And colleagues who are aware that they are part of a professional learning community.