How do you make our customers happy?

As a Procurement Specialist Category Brand Marketing you will help bol.com in creating more value with the same resources or the same value for less resources. You achieve this by using you specific knowledge and expert view on the supplier market.

The branding of bol.com is essential to creating happy customers that feel familiar with the store for us all. Bol.com being recognized as one of the most well known brands in the Benelux, you will work together with key supplier to maintain, improve and expand the quality of the bol.com brand. With the right knowledge and expertise you will have a lasting impact on the experience that our customers have in interacting with bol.com.

Your biggest challenge?

As a function within bol.com procurement is responsible for the ‘Not for Resale’ sourcing of products/services. Not for resale contains categories such as Real Estate, Logistics, IT or Marketing.

Procurement is also a unit that is in a transition towards becoming a strategic internal consultant for which we are looking for the right candidate that brings Marketing expertise and knowledge of the marketing agency landscape to the team.

Translating this knowledge and expertise to effectively be that strategic consultant takes stakeholder management to the next level and knows how to move project forward with the correct market trends from the start.

To achieve this we are looking for a specialist which is not only gets energy from reaching the best deal possible but also shares the same enthusiasm for brand advertising, social media, media buying and influencer marketing as many of our colleagues within bol.com do.

What do you do as a Procurement Specialist?

You will drive the full sourcing process from gather requirements to guarding implementation of multiple contracts and take responsibility for several commodities. In this you are:

Responsible for the planning, sourcing and contract management of spend categories:
Applying planning & category management: Drafts & recommends a strategy for a category, and coordinates with business partners to solicit input; manages pipeline
Driving strategic sourcing: Responsible for day-to-day sourcing activities & running sourcing events end to end (incl. negotiating with suppliers)
Supporting contract management: supports set up of contracts with Legal, Business & IT security; drafts contracts using templates for small/tactical suppliers
Develops and negotiates new contracts, contract renewals and manages active contracts

Unlocking hidden value and getting the best deals possible with specific knowledge and expertise in the working of all marketing disciplines such as f.i. brand advertising & production, media buying, social media, influencer marketing, brand consultancy and brand research projects.

Beyond this you will take on responsibility for supplier mgmt. for small, tactical suppliers, and recommend the business on how to manage large, strategic suppliers (e.g., actions to take, agenda for quarterly or portfolio meetings). Al the while owning the process towards the market and suppliers. In this process you will bring added value through innovation, speedy project delivery, simplifying the complexity of services and translating this in to successful long term sourcing strategies.

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

- You dislike changes If you dislike change. You prefer to get the details done but lose the abstract view
- You find it difficult to separate business over relationships. When you find it difficult to separate business over relationships. You feel that having a to the point discussion on the content impacts long term relations
- You rather work alone Find it difficult to deal with stakeholders of all levels. You think that your workload can be influenced by every one key stakeholder

+ You have the right experience With your proven experience of at least 5 years in sourcing high value projects and customer contact service contracts. You are able to help your internal business partners with specific knowledge in the sourcing customer service processes at external partners, both in the
+ You understand how to connect You are able to bring abstract commercial topics back to practical examples. You understand how to connect, level and challenge senior stakeholders.
+ You know who to reach You see the supplier market as your playground. You know how to effectively reach the best candidates for your sourcing events which see you as their counterpart because you know your stuff.

What your landing spot looks like

You will start with the Marketing procurement team in which you will drive the Brand Marketing category and all connected commodities. The Marketing procurement team is part of the larger procurement department of in total 13 colleagues and counting. Procurement is a department with three sourcing teams and supporting strategy or operational teams. As a department Procurement is part of the Finance function of bol.com and has a supporting role throughout all the fields of business within bol.com varying from Logistics to IT to Marketing.

It is our responsibility to enable an environment that unleashes the power of diversity.

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The extra's

This includes a telephone, training sessions, a nice lunch and possibly a lease car, if this is necessary for the performance of your job.
The culture and the office

Our colleagues work hard to make the daily lives of our customers easier and more fun. But of course, we do this in an inspiring and creative environment!
On and off

At bol.com we understand like no other that you have to take care of yourself first, then your environment and then bol.com. In that order. Therefore, everyone at bol.com receives 29 days of vacation.