How do I become a Buyer at Coolblue?
You are looking for a new challenge in the field of purchasing? Do you enjoy negotiating, maintaining relationships with stakeholders and finding the best deals? Are you looking for a flexible, dynamic company where you can develop yourself further? Read on, Kay explains how to become a Buyer at Coolblue.
You enjoy doing this
- Negotiate with manufacturers to build long-term partnerships and close critical deals for Coolblue. You will be responsible for contract negotiations while the Supply Chain Planner is responsible for procurement.
- Establish and maintain supplier contacts. Together you will make short and long term plans for Coolblue's sourcing in Germany.
- Analyze sales reports and market data.
- Break records with new, improved campaigns. You launch these in cooperation with your team, consisting of buyers, media consultants, product managers and product editors.
- Presenting your annual contract negotiations to an international delegation.
- Working with your buyer colleagues in the Netherlands to find meaningful synergies and learn a lot.
- Handing out high fives when the campaigns you organize go like clockwork.
- Maintaining your product category together with your team. This includes brainstorming sessions, consultations, overcoming obstacles and celebrating successes over (virtual) drinks after work.
This calendar makes you happy
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Check commercial results
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Weekly check-in with supplier
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Lunch
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Preparation of the quarterly meeting
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Stand-up
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Meeting supplier
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Sync stock planner
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take a walk
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Quarterly meeting
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Answer Emails
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Meeting supplier
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Commercial progress
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Team lunch
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Meeting supplier
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Trainings block
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Training negotiation
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Sync media consultant
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(Digital) coffee with your buddy
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Team meeting
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Kick-off Black Friday
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Meeting supplier
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Quarterly Goals Check
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Meeting with your Manager
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Answer Emails
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Drinks with the team
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You recognize yourself in the following
- You speak German and English or German and Dutch fluently.
- A completed university education, ideally in the field of business administration/economics.
- You like to negotiate for your life and have a winning mentality.
- Ideally you already have 2-3 years of experience in category management, purchasing or product management. Ideally even in e-commerce.
- You are a professional conversationalist for business relationships (from customer service to management).
- You're not afraid of the responsibility that comes with important contract negotiations.
- You are a born networker.
- You're extremely results-oriented and a true dealmaker.
- You see opportunities based on the data you analyze to consistently close better deals.
- You lenjoy coming to the Rotterdam office 2-3 times per week.
This is what you’re looking for in a job
- With over 30 training courses in our own Coolblue University, you can become a little bit better every day.
- An extraordinarily good work environment, with freshly made snacks, monthly drinks, legendary Coolblue parties, awesome team activities, and an informal, playful department.
- Salary in line with the market.
- Retirement plan.
- A picture-perfect office at a great location. You could crawl to work from Rotterdam Central Station. Though we recommend just walking for 2 minutes.
- Room for new initiatives and ideas. We’re always open to those, whether you’ve been with us for a week, a month, or a year.
- Challenging work to really immerse yourself in, so you sometimes forget you’re even working.
- A flat organization in the broadest sense of the word. You can just go and have a drink with the boss.
Want to know more?
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Does Coolblue offer a hybrid workplace?
Working at the office makes us happy, that’s why we are working partly from home and partly from the office.
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Can I keep developing myself?
Coolblue University: learning at Coolblue, in a different way.
With over 30 training courses in our own Coolblue University, you can get a little bit better every day. At Coolblue, we go back to school sometimes. But not by sitting there quietly and just listening. The training courses aren't boring, but interactive. You have to do exercises and have discussions with others. At the Coolblue University, we choose what we want to learn, so we can continue to develop en become real experts. For example, a Delivery Driver needs different training courses than a Customer Service Employe and a starter needs different courses than a manager.
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APPLY
Go for it
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PHONE CALL
It's for you
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1ST ROUND
Ready, set, go
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CASE
Open and close
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CONTRACT
I do
