Category Buyer Facilities - Gent
About the role:
The largest lock in the world in Antwerp, an innovative quay in Panama, the sustainable and architecturally sophisticated Résidence Palace in Brussels or the integral A11 freeway in Bruges; all are Jan De Nul Group projects. Civil works are the cradle of the group and still an important division.Jan De Nul Group focuses on complex projects and offers clients, private or public, a total customized package. This approach, plus the technical expertise and years of experience, ensure that we, also for civil works, belong to the absolute top.
What you’ll do:
From the central purchasing department, you are actively responsible for Facility-related purchases including all services, repairs and/or maintenance inside and outside our own buildings and small infrastructure works, but also cleaning, catering, utilities (electricity, gas, compressed air, ...), sports infrastructure, building techniques make this Category very challenging.
Your scope is the entire BeLux (with HQ in Luxembourg) and operating budget +10million.
Your main duties and responsibilities:
- Analysis of purchase files.
- Preparation and follow-up of an action plan and corresponding short- and long-term initiatives.
- Sending out correct and targeted price requests.
- Follow-up and analysis of the offers.
- Drawing up clear price comparison tables with a view to the best cost-benefit analysis and covered risk.
- Justifying the choice of supplier/subcontractor.
- Being highly skilled in commercial, technical and contractual negotiations.
- Meticulous drafting and monitoring of contracts.
- Create and build partnerships, maintain long-term relationships
- Ensure implementation and evaluation
- Closely monitor and apply existing procurement processes
- Collaborate with the legal, procurement and internal facility team within JDN
- You have a technical bachelor or master degree and already have a first relevant work experience. You have strong communication skills, are an initiator and enjoy working in a team. You are stress-resistant, problem-solving and efficient.
- Besides working accurately, analytically and result-oriented, you have sufficient market knowledge and the right negotiation skills.
- You always look for the best TCO.
- You are employed at the head office in Hofstade Aalst and report to the Procurement Manager Construction Projects.
Why working for us:
Working at Jan De Nul means helping to find solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time: from energy transition to rising sea levels to smart mobility. It means learning and working together every day, with the aim of ensuring the global quality of life for generations to come.
What we offer- Through the JDN Academy, we offer you an ongoing training path.
- Through our FIT program, we watch over your well-being with attention to exercise, nutrition and various team activities.
- A healthy work-life balance (flexible working hours and occasional work from home).
- An open-ended contract with 42 paid vacations (20 statutory, 12 ADV and 10 public holidays).
- An attractive salary with thirteenth month and double vacation pay included:
- Meal vouchers and eco vouchers.
- Possibility to participate in the Flex Reward program including bicycle and car leasing including fuel card in Belgium.
- Intervention of public transport and bicycle allowance.
- Group and hospitalization insurance.
- Option of iPhone with telephony and data subscription (subject to contribution).
- Various staff discounts.
- applicable to Belgian contract.
The world becomes what you make of it
Jan De Nul is shaping water and land worldwide. We drive the transition to renewable energy with offshore energy infrastructure. We focus on nature-inclusive dredging solutions to build ports and protect our coastline. We develop innovative construction projects for smart mobility and sustainable buildings.And we redevelop our planet by giving polluted sites a new purpose. At Jan De Nul, the world becomes what you make of it.
Jan De Nul Group promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and against discrimination.
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