We are looking for an Operational Buyer to join our growing purchasing team at stow. As Operational Buyer you will work with people across our organization committed to bring growth to stow, solve issues and actively look for opportunities to improve. Your tasks:
- Follow up stock levels of raw materials and material requirements for production, and call off materials in time
- Order traded goods in line with category strategies, supplier selection and pricing outlined centrally
- Pull forward or push back purchase orders when planning is revised
- Convert purchase requisitions into purchase orders and follow up delivery of orders according to requested delivery date
- Manage daily relationship between the factory and its suppliers
- Provide input on supplier performance (delivery, quality, …) to central category managers for regular supplier evaluation
- Solve potential invoice blocks due to quantity or price discrepancies
- Analyze and optimize the business processes (50% of your time)