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As a Category Buyer IT within Category Procurement IT, you are responsible for the strategy and purchase of software and services within the Business Applications domain.

Primary Tasks and Responsibilities

• You are responsible for carrying out purchasing projects for your own subcategory within IT (products and/or services).

• The Purchasing Manager supports you with complex purchasing projects for the IT category.

• You are responsible for purchasing and contracts for a specific range of products and/or services.

• Your work domain is international, but your work location is Belgium.

• You manage the main supplier and internal customer relationships.

Secondary Tasks and Responsibilities

• You carry out contract renewals, both administratively and operationally.

• You are responsible for analyses of the “total cost of ownership” and you carry out negotiations on this basis.

• You prepare reports on spend analysis, supplier evaluations, performance measurements as well as the realization of added value.

• You participate in sourcing and user teams to improve services to Business Partners.

• You monitor the IT market through targeted market analyses.

Jouw profiel

• You have a thorough knowledge of IT product categories and services and/or you have a great interest in them.

• Experience in a purchasing/sales or IT project environment is a plus.

• You have professional experience with IT applications such as SAP, Word, Excel, Access, ...

• Experience with SAP Ariba is a plus.

• Thanks to your smooth purchasing and negotiation techniques and commercial attitude, you get energy from every negotiation.

• Thanks to your stress resistance, you are always diplomatic and maintain your composure under pressure.

• You have a bachelor's or master's degree, preferably in a commercial, business, economics, IT or technical field (or equivalent through experience).

• You speak Dutch and English very well. Knowing German and French is a plus.

De leveranciers en producten evalueren (audits, tevredenheidsenquêtes, staalname, ...) en verbeteringen voorsen Gegevens actualiseren (markttendensen, nieuwe producten, s van de leveranciers, ...) De aankoopstrategie van een onderneming uitwerken of verder uitbouwen De bevoorradingsbehoeften van de onderneming identificeren en de markt van de leveranciers en producten prospecteren of analyseren Prijzen en leveringstermijnen van producten onderhandelen met de leveranciers De uitvoering van de aankoopcontracten tot aan de betaling opvolgen (hoeveelheid, kwaliteit, leveringstermijnen, ...) Solliciteren

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