Sr. Operational Procurement Officer

Department

Global Procurement is looking for a Sr. Procurement Operations Officer
 

Position & Requirements

Profile
A suitable candidate has 2 years-experience as a Procurement Operations Officer, preferably in the financial services industry.
The candidate must have proven hands-on experience in (P2P) procurement processes or Workday as procurement system. The candidate can work in a small team where knowledge sharing and collaboration is very important.

Primary tasks

·        As a Senior Procurement Operations Officer you are responsible for supporting Category Third Party Managers (CTPM) for a certain category of products and/or services,

·        Maintaining a correct and complete Contract- & Vendor Administration

·        Execute pre-defined purchase requests (Requisitions) within terms of Master Agreements

·        Preparing (complex) Purchase Orders (PO’s) for the CTPM

·        Validating invoices and resolve exceptions

·        Monthly Finance reporting

·        Acting as a backup for your colleague Operational Procurement Officers

Knowledge and experience

·        Bachelor degree education and work level

·        2+ years-experience in Procurement Operations or a similar role/function

·        Familiar with AI (Co-pilot / Chat GPT)

·        Proficient in the Dutch as well as English language (written and spoken).

·        You are positive, accurate and flexible, have an analytical mindset and problem-solving aptitude

·        You have a 'can do' mentality and you are eager to contribute to be in-control in your domain

·        A team player with organizational sensitivity;

·        You are able to spot opportunities to improve our Operational Procedures; (Contract Administration / Purchase to Pay / Source to Contract)

Behavioral skills such as hands-on, pro-active, team player, pragmatic with a "can do" mentality, good communication, organization sensitivity, ability to connect;
 

Additional skills

• Creating and maintaining Operational Procedures & Working descriptions
• Linking pin to our IT-colleagues, coordinating system improvements on behalf of Procurement.
• Administrator for Worldcheck by LSEG (Know your vendor software)
• Back-up for the Team Manager on Priorities, being first point of contact and initiating alignment calls.

Behavioral skills

• Professional skepticism towards CTPM and Management Team (E.g. usual business-suspects within the category, during Procurement Board)
• Pro-active- and consulting attitude in:
  Helping junior colleagues
  Helping Management
• Having a positive mindset and show exemplary behavior
• Collaborating
• Time Management
• Communicative
• Problem Solving
• Ownership
• Adaptibility

All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. An assessment and integrity test may be used in the selection procedure.

Robeco Recruiting Team