Procurement Officer

il y a 2 semaines

Zwevegem, Flandre, Belgique Danone Temps plein
About the job

Procurement Officer

  • The procurement officer role is like water for our beautiful sustainable Plant Based products. You will make sure that all supplier related elements like price, delivery specifications are create, maintained and controlled in accordance to the set supplier agreements following Danone's compliance rules. Your contribution will secure the continuity of the plant based production sites in three countries._


Together with the Strategic Buyer, you are responsible for the correct and timelely translation of the supplier agreements into the Alpro / Danone SAP admin system.

Only afterwards the production locations can order materials, goods and services processed in the (SAP) system and Alpro will only then be able to process invoices of the supplier.

Your role is crucial to keep the materials flow running smoothly to the sites and the relevant departments.

Through your fluent insight into the purchasing processes and existing contracts with suppliers, you are responsible for the follow-up of non-conformities and screening of suppliers as well as controlling, filing and improving our compliance processes related to this.

In a nutshell you will

  • Act as a contract manager for your cluster of suppliers.
  • Register new contracts and price agreements in the Alpro software
  • Be a controller and analist for the consumption of critical materials, services and goods.
  • Monitor deviations from the agreements and determine whether the internal quality service or insurance has to be informed. You attend expert meetings and provide the necessary information based on the contracts.
  • Be responsible for checking invoices and act on any deviation with notes.
  • Use your critical eye to contribute to continuous improvement of the Procurement department through monthly checks on the purchase master data according to SOX (compliance) guidelines. You file the necessary documents on a central accessible location to be ready for any compliant audits and attend them for explaining the necessary processes
  • Be the right hand of the buyers, maintain the supplier master files and inform them about supplier performance to address opportunities and risks
  • Secure the business by creating overviews and suggestion for supplier duplications and business continuity plans
  • Potential act as a junior buyer on some small parts of the portfolio like, spare part etc
You will frequently connect to

  • The Strategic buyers of Plant Based (Alpro) and Danone central
  • The Financial experts, accounts payable of Plant Based
  • The Compliance (Sedex) and Quality department to secure our compliance
  • The Call Off team to make sure Purchase Orders are set up well in the system
  • The R&I department to create / maintain new materials in PLM
  • The factory and other departments to align on new materials, goods and services
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have the following skillset

  • A bachelor degree with knowledge and understanding of purchasing processes and supply chain, or equivalent through experience
  • Thanks to your fluent communication style you function as a contact person for internal departments & suppliers. You feel comfortable to communicate in Dutch and English. Knowledge of French is a plus.
  • You have a strong analytical mind and you work very accurately
  • You are fluent in software such as SAP and Excel.
About us
Working here you'll need to enjoy a fast-pace, complexity and it can get a little challenging. But it's packed with opportunities.

You'll work with some of the best-known brands in the world, such as Alpro, Evian, Nutricia, Activia and Nutrilon and we absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.

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