Teamlead Procurement Mechanical Components

About the role

For our procurement department in Hofstade (Aalst), we are looking for a Teamlead Procurement Mechanical Components with a strong technical background and a passion for purchasing. Together with an experienced team of buyers, you will be responsible for the procurement of mechanical components, ensuring that the right materials are available at the right time and under the best possible conditions for our projects. As a team lead, you will combine your technical and commercial expertise with a coaching-oriented leadership style. In this role, you will help strengthen our procurement organisation and contribute to the successful delivery of Jan De Nul’s challenging projects worldwide.

What you’ll do

As Teamlead Procurement Mechanical Components, you take the helm of an operational purchasing team of 12 colleagues. You keep everything under control, monitor priorities, workloads, and lead times, and ensure that the entire purchasing process from request to delivery and payment runs smoothly and efficiently.

What makes this position extra interesting is the combination of people management and the commercial aspect. You coach your team and remain actively involved in purchasing critical dossiers yourself. This way, you maintain a feel for day-to-day practice and can quickly make adjustments where necessary. This combination allows you to switch easily between logistical insight, technical understanding, commercial sharpness, while in your coaching role you let your team grow and bring out the best in everyone.

You work with a broad and technical product range such as engine spare parts for ships, valves, pumps, and hydraulic components, including specials and urgent cases, making every day different and ensuring challenges are never lacking.

You are never on your own. You receive support from Procurement Excellence and a team of category buyers, and you join a close-knit and efficient team with short lines, clear follow-up, and a collegial atmosphere.

Your main tasks and responsibilities: 

• You coach and guide a team of administrative staff, purchasers, and senior purchasers in their purchasing activities and hold regular 1-on-1 meetings.
• You build technical and commercial knowledge within the team and provide training, tailored to development needs.
• You set up team-specific purchasing strategies in line with the department strategy and guide implementation, including contract negotiations.
• You ensure the correct application of procedures and actively participate in working groups within Procurement Operational.
• You set up team-specific KPIs and monitor them, manage and optimize workloads, and improve lead times from request to order, including complaint handling.
• You check orders (content, item structure, delivery conditions), follow up on critical requests and orders, and lead the biweekly team meetings and coordination sessions.

What you need

• You have a bachelor’s degree (technical direction is a plus) or an A2 with relevant experience.
• You already have experience in a similar role and derive energy from coaching and developing people.
• You have a feel for technical matters and a broad interest in technical topics.
• Purchasing or sales experience is a plus.
• You bring structure with clear planning and strong follow-up.
• You speak fluent Dutch and English.

Why working for us

Working at Jan De Nul means helping to find solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time: from energy transition to rising sea levels to smart mobility. It means learning and working together every day, with the aim of ensuring the global quality of life for generations to come. 

What we offer

• An ongoing training programme through our JDN Academy.

• The opportunity to exercise at work through our FIT programme.  

• A permanent contract with 42 paid holidays (20 statutory, 12 ADV and 10 public holidays).

• A healthy work-life balance (flexible working hours and occasional work from home).  

• A competitive salary with thirteenth month and double holiday pay, including:

  • Meal vouchers and eco vouchers  

  • Opportunity to participate in the Flex Reward programme, including bicycle and car leasing, including fuel card or charging pass in Belgium.  

  • Intervention public transport and bicycle allowance  

  • Group and hospitalisation insurance  

  • Option of iPhone with data subscription

  • Various staff discounts 

*applicable with Belgian contract.

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