Category Buyer IT

As a Category Buyer IT within Category Procurement IT, you are responsible for the strategy and purchase of software and services within the Business Applications domain.

Primary Tasks and Responsibilities

• You are responsible for carrying out purchasing projects for your own subcategory within IT (products and/or services).
• The Purchasing Manager supports you with complex purchasing projects for the IT category.
• You are responsible for purchasing and contracts for a specific range of products and/or services.
• Your work domain is international, but your work location is Belgium.
• You manage the main supplier and internal customer relationships.

Secondary Tasks and Responsibilities

• You carry out contract renewals, both administratively and operationally.
• You are responsible for analyses of the “total cost of ownership” and you carry out negotiations on this basis.
• You prepare reports on spend analysis, supplier evaluations, performance measurements as well as the realization of added value.
• You participate in sourcing and user teams to improve services to Business Partners.
• You monitor the IT market through targeted market analyses.

• You have a thorough knowledge of IT product categories and services and/or you have a great interest in them.
• Experience in a purchasing/sales or IT project environment is a plus.
• You have professional experience with IT applications such as SAP, Word, Excel, Access, …
• Experience with SAP Ariba is a plus.
• Thanks to your smooth purchasing and negotiation techniques and commercial attitude, you get energy from every negotiation.
• Thanks to your stress resistance, you are always diplomatic and maintain your composure under pressure.
• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree, preferably in a commercial, business, economics, IT or technical field (or equivalent through experience).
• You speak Dutch and English very well. Knowing German and French is a plus.