Role: Group Category Specialist - Data Analytics/Sourcing/Strategy
Location: Amsterdam - 3 days per week, must be based in NL

Travel: Up to 20% European travel, mostly 1-2 day trips
Salary: Up to €700pd on an initial 3-month contract

Excellent opportunity to join an exciting PE-backed manufacturing company who are experiencing significant company growth, going through a transformation and offer huge progression opportunities. Excellent company culture.

If you're a creative, (socially) intelligent and curious person who's an expert in data extraction, transformation, enrichment, and analytics in addition to procurement/sourcing experience, this could be the role for you!

Stimulating international scope, and you'll act as a liaison between internal customers, different functional groups, different suppliers, procurement buying co-operations and different geographies.

Responsibilities:

• Developing performance and support analytics for procurement programs and projects at European level
• Extract, transform and analyze data from multiple sources to support Category/Product Management (CM), Sourcing, Fact Based Negotiations, pricing and assortment related initiatives
• Maintain and support implementation, as well as acting as Super User, Procurement support tools
• Support Group Category Managers and Operational Companies (OpCo's) with, but not limited to, analytical capabilities for developing initiative improvements, adjusted gross margin, execute fact-based negotiations
• Run smaller procurement and sourcing projects on behalf of the Group Category Managers
• Manage the ESG agenda in the different categories
• Perform Due Diligence on possible acquisition targets to understand the synergies that can be created when BME acquires an acquisition target

Requirements:

• Highly proficient in with MS Excel including VBA, reference formulae and PivotTables, and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of SQL and other querying tools such as Oracle, MS Access, and others
• Proven analytical skills, including statistics tools to structure, develop and interpret models Stable track record with clear career progression within a limited number of employers
• Experience with working in an international and matrix environment
• Fluent in English - additional German, Dutch or French a bonus

If of interest, please apply to this advert and ideally send your CV to geoff.hunt@1st-executive.com to arrange a call.