About us

Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in The Netherlands, Romania, and Germany. We are the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs 12,000 professionals globally. Damen Naval designs and builds advanced naval vessels for customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in naval shipbuilding. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

For this interim position, Damen Naval is seeking a professional who can start on short notice.

As the Tactical Purchaser (Interim) at Damen Naval, you are responsible for contracting the needed products and materials, services and/or outsourcing services requiring for completing our shipbuilding projects. In this position you develop and strengthen the relationships with existing suppliers and initiate market research to monitor and report on cost trends for the key commodities of your domain. You also closely collaborate and lead a team of subject matter experts (SME's).

Key accountabilities

As the Tactical Purchaser (Interim) at Damen Naval, your key responsibilities will include:

• Developing and improving professional relationships with suppliers to secure and maintain a performing supply base.
• Monitoring and reporting on cost trends for key commodities.
• Ensuring the completeness and accuracy of supplier contracts, considering all cost variables.
• Conducting research, qualification, and evaluation of suppliers and sub-contractors on a project basis.
• Initiating market research and fostering supplier development to establish and maintain a dependable supply base.
• Spearheading improvement processes with suppliers, driven by supplier qualification and evaluation.
• Collaborating in category management, defining category strategies, and executing them effectively.
• Providing dependable data for budgeting and cost price calculations.
• Developing and maintaining quotation evaluations and critical performance metrics.
• Managing and coordinating the entire procurement process, from specification to selection, evaluation, contracting, contract management, and aftercare, following established procedures and project boundaries.
• Crafting proposals for standardization, forging framework contracts, and diligently monitoring and upkeeping them.

Skills & experience

As the Tactical Purchaser (Interim) , you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Technical Bachelor degree, preferably accompanied by Nevi-1 and Nevi-2 certifications or a willingness to enrol in these courses.
• A minimum of five years of hands-on experience in a technical environment, with a strong background in procurement.
• Exceptional negotiation skills, combined with assertiveness and a self-directed, well-organized approach.
• Proficiency in both Dutch and English, both written and spoken.
• Excellent antecedents because a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent multiyear EU citizenship combined with permanent EU work visa are all requirements of the recruitment process for viable candidates, given the military nature of clients and projects.

What we offer

At Damen Naval, we value our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on secondment basis (detachering) or as a freelancer (ZZP), we offer you the following conditions:

• An attractive rate, ensuring at least equal pay to permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work partially from home.
• Challenging and innovative projects.

Other

Are you interested in the interim position of Tactical Purchaser (Interim), kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter. Please state your preferred agreement, secondment (detachering) or freelance (zzp) along with an indication of:

• Secondment: your monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
• Freelance: your hourly rate.

For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or call the Corporate Recruitment department on +31 (0)118- 485 000.

Please note that due to the military nature of our projects, only candidates who have permanent EU nationality can be considered for vacancies at Damen Naval. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to process candidates who (also) have a non-EU passport or nationality. A pre-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.

Damen Naval does not approve commercial, contractor and/or agency or other commercial use of this advertisement. Proposing candidates without invitation is not appreciated and they will not be considered.