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Procurement Specialist – Soft commodities Jobs in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands at The Magnum Ice Cream Company
Title: Procurement Specialist – Soft commodities
Company: The Magnum Ice Cream Company
Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Scope: EU & Global
Location: HQ – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Job Purpose
As Procurement Specialist – soft commodities, you will be responsible for building and implementing the category strategy for the EU & Global Dairy. You will represent the portfolio to both internal and external stakeholders and be the main point of contact for operational and strategic topics.
Strategic Sourcing & Value Creation
- Lead and contribute to the development and execution of the EU & Global dairy procurement strategy, aligned with short- and long-term business objectives.
- Lead and contribute to portfolio initiatives (e.g., Alternate Supplier/Material Approvals, resilience, market development, complexity reduction) to unlock gross margin and operational efficiency.
- Lead & support contract negotiations, including RFQ processes, e-tenders, data management and in-depth analysis of supplier submissions
- Build and manage a forward-looking savings and cash pipeline through market intelligence, strategic levers and price risk management principles ensuring cross-functional alignment and execution.
Commodity Price Risk Management
- Partner with Commodity Risk Management to define and deploy optimal hedging strategies
- Collaborate with Finance and Strategy & Insight teams to deliver accurate price forecasts, market analysis, and budgeting inputs.
- Integrate local market intelligence into contracting cover strategies and supplier flows.
- Ensure full hedge compliance across categories and supplier contracts
Supplier Compliance & Contract Management
- Cultivate strategic supplier partnerships, evaluating capabilities for long-term alignment and innovation.
- Shape and manage the supplier base to meet evolving business needs and resilience goals.
- Ensure compliance with Supplier Quality and Responsible Sourcing policies, while maintaining contracting, quality, and service standards.
- Identify and mitigate sourcing risks with cross functional team, ensuring high service levels to sourcing units
- Excellent contract life cycle management and reporting, ensuring 100% coverage of contracts on time in full, including management of purchase price variances
Innovation & Sustainable Sourcing
- Enable innovation through close collaboration with R&D, leveraging supplier intelligence, capacity insights, and market trends.
- Champion sustainable sourcing initiatives in partnership with the Ice Cream Business and key suppliers.
- Support the development and execution of partnerships and projects required to meet Unilever’s sustainability targets.
- Lead all reporting and monitoring requirements for dairy sustainability programs and initiatives.
You Will Be Expected To
- Outstanding in idea generation, ideas that are forward thinking, and that contribute to creating sustained competitive advantage.
- Strong at selling ideas to his/her business partners, internally and externally, translating these into effective proposals conveying value and communicating it accordingly.
- Appreciative of the value and impact of outstanding execution – an eagle eye for detail.
- Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as his/her own, sets trends and is willing to lead, follow or get out of the way.
- Behave as a Partner with Purpose ambassador and demonstrate the value Procurement adds to the business.
- Talent mastery, which includes: spotting, fostering, encouraging and retaining talent is a non-negotiable.
What You Need To Succeed
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree
- >3 years’ experience in Procurement
- Fluency in English
- Self-starter with strong accountability & responsibility and leadership skills
- Experience in strategic sourcing development and contract negotiations
- Very Strong Communication and Analytical skills: data/information analysis and presentation.
- Ability to read markets, gain insights and convey findings along with recommendations, to the business
- Comfort with systems: SAP CLM, USQS, SRS, Velocity, BPC Hana, etc.
- Experience in market forecasting, operations and supply chain dynamics
- Able to build relationships with people across the business (internally & externally).
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About The Magnum Ice Cream Company
With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.
About
The Magnum Ice Cream Company (formerly part of Unilever) is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it. Here’s what defines success in our organization :
- We are all about growth
- We operate with speed and simplicity
- We win together with fun
- We boldly innovate to disrupt our industry
- We care and challenge
- We are experts in the Ice Cream Category
ARE YOU EXCITED TO CRAFT THE ICE CREAM FUTURE?
Please apply online and do not forget to upload your CV. Your application will be reviewed against the requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date, with an update on the status of your application.
