Department
Procurement Site Geleen operates as a centralized service centre. It executes, maintains and improves the procurement process for SABIC plants on site Geleen and for the Head Office Sittard: ensures non interrupted assets operation and business. The department maximizes value for money in sourcing & contracting and managing materials & services by exploiting economies of scale and maintaining the same high performance and service level for all customers. The main functions within Procurement Site Geleen are: Operations, Warehousing, Purchasing and Sourcing & Contracting.

The Challenge
The purpose of the job is to co-execute the sourcing strategy as defined in the approved sourcing plan within a specific category or area of products and services across sites SABIC-Europe wide or on local site and implementing / following-up the results in order to secure materials and services to end users and to optimize total cost of ownership. The open job position is focussed on the demand for investment Projects and Maintenance Projects, predominantly in the Technical Goods & Services area. The role is an embedded Procurement role in the multifunctional Projects Department, also interfacing with Maintenance.

More in detail you will:

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of European / Local strategies for the relevant categories compliant to the overall area strategy SABIC-Europe wide.
• Cntribute to the execution and support the implementation of the European / Local strategies (select potential suppliers, prepare and negotiate contracts, follow-up implementation, evaluate and enhance supplier performance).
• Execute the critical single (one-off) purchase requests by identifying suppliers, challenge specifications, set-up and execute commercial tender.
• Implement and communicate contracts and safeguard the realisation of negotiated savings.
• Manage the supplier-portfolio for the relevant categories in order to evaluate and optimize on a continuous basis the supplier portfolio, taking into account potential suppliers to build up strategic relationships with and complaint handling.
• Establish, manage and optimize relationships with suppliers in order to sustain continuity of supply within the assigned category.
• Support the activities to become the trusted partner for internal customers in this role as lead buyer in a cross functional team.
• Contribute based on experience and knowledge in daily support of procurement professionals and in continuous improvement of the purchasing performance and processes.

Your Profile

• University degree in Business Administration / Technical discipline or non-University degree (e.g. HBO+, built up by experience, specific trainings/education).
• Additional Procurement training e.g. NEVI-courses or similar is an advantage.
• 3 to 5-year buying experience is a strong advantage.
• 3 to 5-year experience in client organizations, e.g. project leadership.
• (Strong) technical affinity.
• You have been demonstrating commercial skills.
• Fluent in Dutch and English, both verbal and written.
  

As a person you have to bring the following competences:

• Initiating action and showing entrepreneurship.
• Customer focussed in building long term relationships.
• Decision making.
• Gaining commitment.
• Contribution to teamsucces.
• Negotiation skills.
• Persuasiveness.
• Planning & Organizing skills, structured.

Further Information
Because SABIC supports you to develop a career with us that challenges you in ways that really make you come alive personally and professionally we think personality is as important as experience and skills. Therefore we look for people who acknowledge the key competences for SABIC: initiating actions, customer focus and continuous learning. SABIC's core competences are: Inspire, Engage, Create and Deliver.

For more information about this internal role you can contact: Monique Coppens (HR Business Partner) on +31 (0)6-811 648 75 or Ben Engelbert van Bevervoorde (Site Procurement Manager Geleen) on +31 (0)46-722 3658).

If interested, please respond before the closing date of: Monday January 30th.

Interested as internal candidate?
After consulting with your present manager please apply online.

Sharing our futures in leadership
SABIC is one of the world's leading manufacturers of chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and metals. We supply these materials to other companies, who use them to make products on which the world has come to depend.

We are the largest and most reliably profitable public company in the Middle East. Our success is the result of our focus on three key areas: investment in local partnerships, outstanding research and technology programs, and an ambitious global growth strategy. And last, but certainly not least, because of our talented employees who have a passion to deliver.

In Europe, SABIC employs over 6,000 professionals and is running 6 world-scale production sites and 4 technology & innovation centers. We are present in almost every European country. Major locations within our broad network of innovation, production and marketing are: Teesside (UK), Cartagena (Spain), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Geleen (Netherlands) Bergen op Zoom (The Netherlands) and Genk (Belgium). Based upon this strong fundament, we are a key producer of olefins, polyolefins, engineering thermoplastics resins, films and sheets in Europe.

At SABIC we are pushing the limits further. We are ambitious and striving to become the preferred world leader in chemicals. To achieve this ambition, we strongly invest in our most important asset - our employees. We see it as our task to help you develop a career with us that challenges you in ways that really make you come alive. Make your career happen with SABIC.