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Purchase Team Lead

Are you ready to take a next step in your career?

The role of Purchase Team Lead is the perfect combination of dynamic leadership with engaging, hands-on daily responsibilities. You will serve as both a strategic buyer for critical purchase components while leading and inspiring the purchase team to ensure efficient and seamless operations.

Do you have technical expertise in metal manufacturing processes? Then read on quickly!

This is NEDCON

NEDCON is a global player in the field of storage systems. From manual warehouse racking and semi-automatic systems to an integrated approach for complex and automated warehouse equipment. We design, manufacture, supervise, assemble and install these systems all over the world. And we have been doing so since 1969. 

With a team of more than 500 colleagues, spread over three locations in the Netherlands, the United States and the Czech Republic, we install impressive projects around the world that are getting bigger and therefore more complex. We are committed to delivering the (mostly) fully automated systems to our international customers on schedule, on budget and to the highest quality.

With us you play in the Champions League, work-wise that is. Because the atmosphere within our company feels more like a team of friends. Many colleagues built NEDCON themselves and are still working there. That creates a family feeling, in which new colleagues are welcomed with open arms. 

Our head office is located in Doetinchem. So expect us to have a down-to-earth, no-nonsense mentality. Making beautiful things together, that's what we do at NEDCON!

Your job

As a Purchase Team Lead, you will manage a team of 4 colleagues. All colleagues are responsible for their own product. In this role, you will not only act as team leader but also handle hands-on strategic and operational tasks. Specifically, you will be responsible for the procurement of cold-formed profiles and metal parts while providing technical support to the entire team.

You will play a key role in aligning procurement activities with the company’s strategic goals and the direction set by our Global Purchase Manager. Therefore, you have a strong understanding of strategic purchasing practices and supply chain management.

Your duties in a nutshell:

Strategic buyer (Procurement strategy and management) 

  • Develop and implement procurement strategies for your product portfolio to optimize cost, quality, and delivery. 
  • Take direct responsibility by utilizing in-depth technical knowledge of metal manufacturing processes to inform procurement decisions  
  • Stay current with advancements in metal manufacturing, roll forming and press braking technologies, applying industry best practices within the framework of the company’s purchasing strategy. 

Supplier, order and stakeholder management 

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers regularly evaluating their performance and addressing any issues related to quality, delivery, or service. 
  • Manage the whole purchase order process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with technical requirements 
  • Work closely with internal departments such as sales, engineering, R&D to understand and meet their goals and needs 

Team leadership and supervision: 

  • Provide guidance and support to team members in their daily tasks, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment  
  • Keep the team updated on industry trends and technological advancements that may impact procurement strategies. 

Would you like more information about this position? Our Global Purchase Manager, Pinar Tokur, would be happy to tell you more! Call Pinar at 06-51287352.

This is you 

As our new Purchase Team Lead, you have excellent analytical, leadership, communication and negotiation skills. You have experience in relationship management, negotiating contracts and working with critical items in the manufacturing process.

You will collaborate closely with your team, other departments and suppliers. In these partnerships  you combine your ability to listen with sharing your own insights and expertise.

Additionally, you have:

  • Bachelor’s degree preferably in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field. 
  • Proven technical knowledge with a minimum of 5 years of experience working with metal parts, with expertise in metal manufacturing technologies, specifically in roll forming and press braking. 

What we offer

If you come to work at NEDCON, it's not just the primary conditions that are well organized. With us, it's also (or maybe even especially) in the secondary conditions. We have divided what you get from us into various components:

Simply well taken care of:

  • An attractive salary
  • A company laptop
  • 28 vacation days + the possibility to buy 8 additional days
  • The advantageous purchase of a bicycle, PC, tablet, smartwatch, etc.

Health and vitality:

  • Free daily fruit
  • Fresh and inexpensive food every day in our in-house company restaurant
  • Exercise under the guidance of a personal trainer once a month
  • Early weekend: on Fridays we work until 3 p.m.!

Social:

  • Opportunity to do volunteer work
  • Access to matches of the Graafschap
  • Annual access to Huntenpop Festival

Join the club:

  • Friday afternoon drinks every last Friday of the month
  • Annual Christmas drinks and summer barbecue, staff parties and team outings

Experience the NEDCON feeling
You don't become a world player in the field of storage systems overnight. For that, you need a wealth of knowledge and experience. And the best people. Ever since the beginning in 1969, we have been building the NEDCON of today together. We do it together. Because #WeAreNedcon.

Our secret lies in our great involvement. With our customers and projects, but also with each other and the company. At NEDCON you will find a corporate culture in which creativity, innovative power, talent and quality can flourish. We learn with and from each other. With training opportunities, a vitality program and room for relaxation between work.

Our involvement also extends to our surroundings. For example, we are a proud sponsor of De Graafschap soccer club and contribute to local projects and initiatives.

Play in the Champions League, within the atmosphere of a friendly team: experience the NEDCON-feeling!

Are you interested?
NEDCON has been working hard internationally for years. We are proud of the projects we install (worldwide) and the customers we work with. Are you looking forward to becoming part of a company that is in full swing and above all has a very pleasant working atmosphere? Then apply now!

For more information please contact our Corporate Recruiter, Sander Liebrand, on

+31 6 12 57 50 52 or by email at recruitment@nedcon.com.

Broaden your horizon at NEDCON. Ready? Let’s go!

Questions about the vacancy?

Sander Liebrand
Sander Liebrand
Corporate Recruiter

Application procedure

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You have invested time and energy in your application. With the same dedication we view your application and within five working days you know if we invite you for a telephone conversation. Are you currently not eligible for the position or is the right vacancy not yet available? Then subscribe to our job alert so that you are immediately informed when your dream job is available at NEDCON.

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We have arranged a suitable time by mail. During this telephone conversation we can already get acquainted and you can ask us questions. We would like to get to know you better and that is why we also have a number of questions for you such as your expectations of NEDCON, the reason you applied at NEDCON and your salary indication. We ask these questions to clarify the expectations from both sides.

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During the first meeting, we can show you NEDCON and we can get to know each other. We will discuss the competences you need for the job. For us, it is important that you fit with NEDCON and that we are the desired employer for you.

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Are we and you enthusiastic? Then we would like to invite you for a second interview. In this conversation we discuss in detail the content of the position, the team and the department. Depending on your position, we ask you to give a presentation or we use an assessment.

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Contract proposal - NEDCON Contract proposal

We know enough after two job interviews. We have a good picture of you and hopefully you are excited to work at NEDCON. We offer you a one-year contract with the intention to convert this into permanent employment.

We have favorable working conditions such as a working week until Friday 3 pm, an informal, pleasant working environment with nice colleagues, many fun activities such as staff parties, summer BBQ, Christmas drinks, team outings, Friday afternoon drinks and every day cheap and fresh lunches in our own company restaurant. We also offer you a package of financially attractive employment conditions such as bonus scheme, travel allowance, profit sharing, pension scheme and collective schemes such as the voestalpine share plan, health insurance, business travel insurance and accident insurance.

An offer you can not refuse

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The NEDCON head office is located in Doetinchem (The Netherlands). We also have our own production facility in Pardubice (Czech Republic) and there are NEDCON offices in various European countries and the United States..

The Netherlands
The Netherlands
NEDCON BV
Nijverheidsweg 26
7005 BJ Doetinchem
+31 314 33 44 55
USA
USA
NEDCON USA LLC
10053 Simonson Road, Suite 2
45030 Harrison OH
+1 513 367 2656
Germany
Germany
NEDCON Lagertechnik GmbH
Dinxperloer Straße 18-20
46399 Bocholt
+49 2871 4789
France
France
NEDCON France SAS
27, Rue Jean Wenger Valentin
F-67000 Strasbourg
+33 3 88 56 05 55
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
NEDCON Bohemia, s.r.o.
HolandskΓ‘ 34
53301 Pardubice
+420 467 002 111