As a Contract & Supplier Manager, you are responsible for managing and optimizing ongoing contracts and relationships with suppliers. Within a specialized department of a procurement center, you ensure that contractual agreements are actually met in practice. You act as a strategic account manager for your own (sub)assortment cluster.
The goal is to reduce risks, maximize performance, and ensure sustainable, open collaboration with external partners, so that internal departments always have the right goods and services available for training and deployment.
What you do
- You proactively monitor the execution of contracts and adjust where necessary, for example by further specifying Service Levels.
- You act as an account manager and regular consultation partner for key suppliers; you show interest in their ambitions and market developments and structurally evaluate their performance.
- You ensure that the organization fulfills its own contractual obligations in a timely and accurate manner.
- You continuously initiate performance improvements and resolve operational bottlenecks together with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- You are accountable for the expenditure of funds and the performance delivered, and perform analyses in SAP for this purpose.
- You share insights gained to better structure future new contracts and tenders, taking into account frequent visits to suppliers both domestically and abroad.
Profile
You are a strong negotiator with keen commercial and business insight. You can influence and analyze well, and possess the necessary organizational sensitivity to remain professional in a vulnerable, integral role (due to the relationship with suppliers). You strive for perfect delivery for the end-users, without losing sight of a healthy supplier relationship.
What they ask
- A completed higher professional education (hbo) or university degree, preferably in Business Administration or Supply Chain Management.
- Extensive experience with assortment management, procurement management, and financial management.
- Demonstrable experience in using SAP for performing analyses.
- Extensive experience working within multifunctional teams and drafting improvement proposals/advice.
- Excellent command of the English language, both written and spoken.
- Preferably, a completed NEVI training and knowledge of public procurement law.
Practical
- A security clearance (VGB) is part of the application process.
- It is necessary that you have Dutch nationality as a civilian applicant.
- Providing a Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is a condition for appointment.
- A background check, including criminal records and financial matters, may be part of the selection procedure.
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