Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Operation Buyerto join us at Hardenberg . If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role 
You will be part of the purchasing/planning team located in Hardenberg. You will report to the Supervisor BU Western Europe and be active for the Benelux & Germany region. You fulfill an important link between Wavin and its suppliers. In your role you will use your analytical and process skills together with your knowledge to come to an optimal availability for trade-products and components (for production). Simultaneously you will guard the sevice level, the total and landed costs and inventory management. You are pro-active, self-reliance is evident. Your communications skills are excellent. Focus will be on continuously improving. 

Main Tasks & Responsibilities 

• Creating orders to external Vendors or Call off orders based on delivery time, MOQ, current stock with the balance between availability, costs and delivery conditions. 
• Manage direct shipments (3rd party deliveries) 
• Manage orders for specials (fittings / inspection chambers)  
• Check order confirmations (prices, delivery times and conditions).  
• Monitoring open purchase orders and identify possible stagnations. 
• Monitor stock levels, availability, obsolescence stock and associated actions. 
• Maintain master data for optimal usage in SAP/Continuously review and update master data correctness (by using SAP – BO / MDG) 
• Ensuring the outsourcing of production steps (Subcontracting), plan with third parties and monitor these.  
• Sparring partner for Strategic Procurement (review External Vendors) and product managers 
• Maintain close contact with production planning, sales, logistics, finance and product management. Participate in cross functional meetings. 
• Problem Solving (escalation to Supervisor and/or Strategic Procurement) 
• Participating in Quality improvement processes 
• Improve Operational Purchaser job(s) 
• Analytical and reporting 
• Complaints and Claim handling. Handling incorrect Vendor Invoices. 

We are looking for someone who:  

• Has a MBO+ degree in Logistics, Supply Chain or Purchasing (NEVI I); 
• 2-5 years’ experience in a purchasing /production / supply chain environment 
• Active knowledge of logistics processes 
• Good analytical and communication skills 
• Proactive attitude and target orientated. 
• Result driven. 
• Accurate and service oriented 
• MS Office (excel) and ERP/SAP knowledge. 
• Team player 

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

Contact us

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