Buyer, Factor Europe (m/f/x)

The roleThe Supply Chain Operations team is part of the Factor Upstream Operations team - together with the Sourcing Specialists, Production & Fulfillment teams you make sure products are available at the right time, quantity and quality to ensure a smooth meal production. You thrive on solving challenges, building processes and love stepping up to take the initiative. With your strong communication skills, you quickly identify bottlenecks and take decisive actions to elevate processes. You excel in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, effortlessly juggling multiple tasks and adapting to a variety of tools and systems.Why join Factor?Factor is the youngest brand in the HelloFresh Group, focused on delivering high-quality, ready-to-eat meals. Joining our team means becoming part of a fast-paced, dynamic environment full of challenges and opportunities to grow alongside an ambitious team.Here’s Why You’ll Love Working With Us🍽️ Impact & Innovation: You’ll play a key role in shaping Factor’s supply chain operations - ensuring🌍 International Collaboration: Work across multiple European markets, partnering with suppliers and internal teams from diverse backgrounds🚀 A High-Growth Environment: Factor is growing fast, meaning vast opportunities to take initiative, improve processes, and grow alongside an ambitious and driven team💡 Best of Both Worlds: Experience the dynamic energy of a scaling brand, while benefiting from HelloFresh’s established tools, best practices, and global networkAbove all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.What You’ll DoResponsible for placement of purchase orders with allocated vendors for a variety of food and packaging SKUs, ensuring accuracy in price, quantity, and buffer levels.Partner with production, fulfillment and suppliers to guarantee on-time deliveries and inventory availability.Recommend, test, and implement new processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.Review purchasing information to validate accuracy, maintain compliance with procedures, and quickly identify discrepancies.Address and resolve operational, purchasing, or quality/performance issues with professionalism and urgency.Update purchase orders, track freight, manage production issues, process invoices, and monitor inventory levels to keep everything on track.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure no missed orders or ingredient substitutions due to supply issues.Work alongside a high-performing team to build, strengthen, and continuously improve our supply chainWhat You’ll BringAt least 1-2 years of relevant work experienceBachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations Management, or a related fieldFlexibility for occasional weekend work and travelStress resilience and a hands-on approachA proactive, data-driven, and result-oriented mindsetExcellent communication skills, able to work across different teams and culturesFluency in German and English (other European languages are a plus)What We OfferFreedom to initiate, execute and implement your own ideasLots of learning and development opportunities24 holidays based on 40 hours per week per year, pro rataA hybrid work setup - with roughly 2 days in our Amsterdam office Reimbursement of travel expenses to the officeDiscount on your ClassPass subscription, and a discount for your gym membership via Bedrijfsfitness Nederland Discount on your additional health insurance through Zilveren KruisA discount on your weekly, Factor, HelloFresh and/or Green Chef box in the NetherlandsHealthy lunches, fruit and snacks in the office Competitive salary and pension schemeSocial activities with our culturally diverse team!Are you up for the challenge?Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days.#JD1008