What is required?
- Higher professional education
- At least 5 years of work experience
- Experience with purchasing steel construction and manufacturing parts
- Good communication skills
- Excellent command of Dutch and English, verbally and in writing
- You can work independently and accurately and manage deadlines and goals
What will you get?
- Market based salary (depending on knowledge and experience)
- 40-hour workweek
- 25 vacation days
- Sim card based on BYD
- Travel allowance
- 1 work from home day
What will you do?
- 10% Negotiating and maintaining relations with suppliers and monitoring their performance
- 50% Requesting quotations and coordinating technical specifications
- 40% Monitoring orders and following up on problems and irregularities
I'm interested
Do you have a question or are you interested? Contact us.Jeroen van Hees
COO
Vacancy
As a Purchaser at Tillen, you are responsible for carrying out operational purchasing activities and ensuring the timely availability of materials and services. You conduct market research, negotiate contracts, and conclude agreements primarily with approved suppliers to maintain a high-quality portfolio. During the bid stage, you support the Sales department by requesting pricing and coordinating technical specifications to ensure competitive and accurate quotations. In this role, it is important to maintain good relationships with suppliers, even if this means not always selecting the cheapest offer. Additionally, you carefully monitor their performance and financial health and conduct market research to make sure you always have the right suppliers.
You spent a sizeable portion of your time overseeing the operational processing of orders, identifying problems and irregularities and discussing these with the Project Owner. Furthermore, you act as the primary liaison between (international) suppliers and the Finance department, handling technical questions and resolving discrepancies in invoices or delivery terms. By ensuring that customer terms and conditions are reflected in supplier agreements, you safeguard the quality and profitability of our projects while maintaining strong, long-term relationships with our global supply chain.
You'll be working in a dynamic environment without a fixed departmental boundary, where you work closely together with Sales professionals and Project Managers who rely on your procurement expertise. While the role offers a high degree of independence, the collaboration with internal clients is essential to translate technical requirements into successful supplier orders.
If you enjoy working in a technical environment in a small team, are energized by quickly prioritizing between different tasks and are not disoriented when things do not go as planned, then this is a job for you.
Firsthand experience
Growth
No rigid format is followed for your career path. Depending on your ambitions, experience, and needs within the company, you can develop in various directions. TILLEN is experiencing significant growth, and we aim for our colleagues to benefit and grow with us. To support this, we provide budget and time so that everyone can flourish in a challenging environment where they can excel. Depending on the growth of the company, there might be a possiblity to develop into a Manager Purchasing.
Working at TILLEN
Our vacancies are exclusively aimed at candidates who wish to join us directly without involvement from staffing agencies and recruiters. We do not engage with freelancers either; acquisition based on these advertisements is not appreciated.
TILLEN was founded in 2007 by three enthusiastic engineers with a passion for heavy constructions and lifting equipment. The company designs and delivers customized solutions for the safe and efficient handling of heavy constructions, such as those for wind farms, contributing to the energy transition. The team comprises experts in mechanical engineering and structural engineering. By pooling these skills, tailored solutions are created, manufactured, and implemented for handling heavy and unwieldy loads. The expertise extends beyond heavy lifting, serving various markets. Designs range from specialized equipment to supporting structures and other handling devices with diverse applications. In addition to engineering, an increasing part of our activities involves manufacturing our designs, ultimately delivering complete solutions to customers. This process includes visiting the manufacturing workshop, devising and conducting tests, and participating in the final acceptance by the customer.
In addition to vacancies for Sales Engineers, Project Managers, and Structural Engineers, we are always looking for CAD Engineers, Design Engineers, and Project Managers. Please send your application to Jeroen.van.hees@tillen.com
- Office in De Meern
- 25% / 75%
- Average age 34 years
- 21 employees employed
- Casual
- Work-from-home options: one/two days at home, the rest in the office
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