Senior Buyer

Dockwise Shipping B.V.

Company description

Dockwise is the market leader in the transport of extremely large and heavy cargoes. Dockwise is able to offer unequalled flexibility and carrying capacity for the transportation of heavy loads such as drilling rigs, offshore structures, semi-submersible units, military vessels, dredging equipment and other heavy structures. Dockwise operates the largest fleet of specialized vessels in the world: a versatile fleet of 22 semi-submersible heavy transport vessels of different concepts and designs. Dockwise offers a full range of logistic and engineering services to ensure a seamless operation. That’s what we call Exceptional Transport

Job description

Responsibilities:

The Senior Buyer will be responsible for the entire procurement process for the purchase of equipment, materials and services, within an acceptable timeframe and against the optimum market conditions. Also, the Senior Buyer will take the lead in composing, implementing and managing market, product group and/or supplier strategies. An active contribution to the agreed company and department objectives is expected and the Senior Buyer will represent the Procurement Department in several project teams. The Senior Buyer will report on a regular base to the Project Managers and Department Manager.

Procurement process responsibilities:

• Specifying of goods and services :
• Cross functional specifying composing proposal budgets, conditions and planning
• Being the knowlegde center for specific products groups

Selecting suppliers:

• Pre qualifying suppliers and managing the preferred supplier list
• Lead the request for quotation process
• Lead and initiate the negotiation process
• Selecting suppliers based on solid bid evaluations and advising project teams

Contracting:

• Contracting suppliers based on standard T&C or customized contract
• Cross functional development of contracts
• Contract management

Evaluation:

• Project wise evaluation of suppliers
• Agree on and implement improvement
• Claim handling process

Requirements: 

• Completed bachelor degree (technical) and Nevi II
• Broad procurement experience, preferable within the field of maritime/offshore
• At least 10 years relevant experience in an international project wise environment
• Strong IT minded, preferable with SAP
• Fluent in Dutch and Englisch, both written and spoken

Competences:

• Communication, clear in writing as well as orally
• Entrepreneurship,recognize possibilities and threats and act pro-active
• Goal orientation, focusing on achieving goals and on time delivering 
• Analytical, separate important and less important matters and find correlations
• Flexibility, easy adapting to changing environments, tasks and/or people

We offer:

• Engaging international working environment in a modern working location
• Challenging position with corresponding responsibilities
• Excellent remuneration package including an EVA bonus
• Wide range of career opportunities, personal and professional growth

Further information:

Richard Buskens, telephone: +31(0)76 5484100

Recruitment by commercial agencies in relation to this or other vacancies is not appreciated.

Your application:

Please send your resume with motivation letter through link below.

Postbus 3208
4800 DE Breda