- Location
- Almelo, NL, Netherlands
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Operations
- Source
- Workday
Description
- Operational Purchasing: create, send, and follow-up purchase orders, responsible for material availability, create and send out forecasts, judge commitments (e.g. high stock volume) upfront, foresee future material issues, solve or escalate.
- Administration: continuously maintain purchase orders in ERP system.
- Collaboration: solid collaboration with suppliers, colleagues, (internal) customers, and provide feedback on the stability of the production plan
- Optimization: advise on purchase parameter setting to improve, advise on suppliers (framework) agreement.
- Hands-on mentality
- Good communications skills and team player
- Bachelor working and thinking level
- Preferably some experience in an Operational Buyer or Planning role.
- Basic English skills (speaking and writing)
We provide market-leading, material characterization technologies for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories in the analytics of advanced materials.
We support our customers through their biggest challenges, from developing lifesaving vaccines to sustainable fuels. We wake up every day to delight our customers through innovation, high-quality solutions and workflows, and excellence in customer satisfaction.
We are a recognized leader for quality and insights in material characterization; winning customers with performance and keeping them with service. With more than 2,000 employees operating in over 20 countries across the world, and R&D sites in North America, Europe and Asia.
We are part of Spectris, a company which combines precision with purpose to equip customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive. In 2025, Spectris acquired Micromeritics as part of Malvern Panalytical.