Tactical Buyer

The position

Does building and maintaining sustainable relationships with suppliers while execution all (operational) procurement activities energizes you? We are further professionalizing our Supplier Operations department and would like to welcome enthusiastic Tactical Buyers with the motivation to make a difference in our organization!

The Supplier Operations department’s mission is to secure material availability at the right cost, right quality and right time for our customers. To realize this mission, we need to set ourselves up for success to navigate the volume ramp, while managing the growing installed base & supply chain complexity in a smarter way. This means that we need to drive both structural step changes and continuous improvements in our core processes at the same time. Your role as Tactical Buyer is to ensure effective and efficient execution of the (operational) procurement activities by for example arranging adequate material supply, resolving operational procurement issues, driving cost down / cost efficiency and ensuring master data control.

Role and responsibilities

You will independently manage the operational procurement process for multiple suppliers and Sourcing Lead. To prepare and oversee supplier negotiations including tactics, spend base analysis, script, dry-run and orchestrating stakeholders involved as well as all contract details.

Your focus is on operational execution and timely availability of required materials within boundary conditions. Next, is to manage day-to-day contact with our suppliers (including owning agenda of interactions) and track all communication for full transparency.

• Making sure that ASML materials have the right price, order lead time and other commercial criteria's correct after aligning and negotiating with the suppliers.
• Creating the Purchase Orders according to the agreed prices
• Working on standardizing the price agreements with partner suppliers
• Collaborating with clusters and account lead to drive initiatives towards suppliers in order to achieve price reductions, other commercial agreements and lead time agreements

About the company

ASML is a successful Dutch high-tech enterprise that produces complex lithography systems used by chip manufacturers in the production of integrated circuits. ASML is at the cutting edge of this technology and delivers systems to all the world's leading chip manufacturers. ASML's employees are among the most creative talents in the fields of physics, mathematics, chemistry, mechanical engineering and software. Every day they collaborate in close-knit multidisciplinary teams in which members listen to and learn from one another and exchange ideas. It is the ideal environment for professional development and personal growth.

ASML is headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.

About you

A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in the direction of Supply Chain Management, (International) Business, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Finance.

You have 2-5 years’ experience in a procurement / sourcing or commercial (related) role, ideally in a technology intensive industry. It is also considered a pre when affinity with one or more where technical affinity is key;

• Experience with R2P
• Experience in price negotiation
• Experience with TCO
• Experience with Supplier Relationship Management
• Experience with new product introduction
• Experience with supplier contracting
• Experience with supply chain processes; Commercial experience (E.g. sales)

Skills

General:

• Ability to identify and structure opportunities independently
• Excellent professional communication in English

Result-oriented skills:

• Assertive, proactive problem solving skills and driving improvements; Ensuring accountability; Strong planning and alignment skills
• Ability to deal with resistance and organizational changes

Social and communication skills:

• Stakeholder management; Persuasion skills
• Customer focus; Collaboration; team player orientation
• Able to manage ambiguity; Resilience; time / priority management skill