Purchaser / Operationeel Inkoper

Everything we do at Neste serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. Over the past ten years, Neste’s transformation journey has taken the company from a local oil refining company to becoming a global leader in renewable and circular solutions.

Our purpose pushes us forward to search for new ways to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere, and to innovate circular solutions to reuse carbon again and again. Are you going to help us combat climate change?

Neste Netherlands is part of the Finnish parent company Neste. The plant in Rotterdam produces renewable fuels. Together with 200 colleagues we are working everyday to operate, maintain, and improve the plant in an efficient and safe manner.

We are looking for a Purchaser / Operationeel Inkoper to join our Renewable Production department at the Neste Rotterdam Refinery.

This role reports into the Head of Procurement Central Europe & Americas and in this role you will be responsible for operational buying of required Services and Materials for Neste entities in the Netherlands.

Your main responsibilities in creating a sustainable future are:

• Execute all site related procurement process activities, detect any concerns and raise questions on any unclarity in the purchase requisitions before issuing the purchase orders to our preferred suppliers

• Ensure order confirmations are received and recorded in SAP

• Prepare and issue requests for quotation (RFQ) for single purchases

• Perform commercial bid evaluations

• Perform negotiations with suppliers

• Accountable for expediting of goods ordered (order confirmations and timely deliveries)

• Focalpoint for our internal customer and our suppliers on complaints deliveries e.g. discrepancies. Monitor, divide, delegate and resolve all assigned parked and blocked invoices in a timely manner, ensuring invoices are available to pay.

• Closely work together with procurement counterparts abroad

• Bachelor degree in a technical discipline

• 3+ years of experience

• Knowledge of the industry is preferred

• SAP Experience

• Fluent in English and Dutch

• Influencing and self-confidence

• Teamwork and collaboration

• Problem solving skills

Neste creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. With over 75 years of refining expertise, we are now the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. We have set aspirational targets for climate, biodiversity, human rights, as well as our supply chain and raw materials. Our ambition is to make the Porvoo oil refinery in Finland the most sustainable refinery in Europe by 2030. Together with our partners we are aiming at a carbon neutral and nature positive value chain by 2040. Our success is created by 5,400 professionals working in 16 countries. Read more: neste.com. Get inspired by our story.