Sourcing Analyst Benelux

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Do you get energy from entrepreneurship, making change happen, and working with both food and non-food products? Are you someone who can think beyond borders—especially between the Netherlands (Albert Heijn) and Belgium/Luxembourg (Delhaize)? Then we might be the perfect match!

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Key responsibilities of your role

• As a EU Sourcing Analyst, you will take on a dynamic role where you:
• Combine skills in own brand (OB) & national brand (NB) sourcing, stakeholder management, data analytics and project management
• Further develop OB/NB collaboration between our brands across Europe
• Initiate and take ownership of international own-brand sourcing assortment, in close cooperation with local brand buyers to drive sourcing synergies
• Manage multiple OB sourcing tenders - dive into costs, sustainability topics, supplier landscapes and product compositions
• Engage in strategic sparring and bring fresh ideas to improve our tender processes & tooling
• Analyze data, compare products, and support with documentation
• Prepare content for EU management meetings

Your new work environment

You will work closely with colleagues in sourcing, merchandising, sustainability, and quality—at both the European and brand level. You’ll also team up with our international sourcing partner AMS. As we go through change, you’ll encounter resistance at times and good stakeholder management is important. You know how to ask the tough questions and translate your findings into proposals for product and supplier improvements across Europe.

You’ll join the European Sourcing team, which is organized by region (Benelux and Central Southeast Europe) and product category (Fresh, Own Brands, National Brands). You’ll report to the Director EU Sourcing OB/NB Benelux.

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Plus:

• A gross annual salary between 47.000 - 57.000 based on full-time employment
• A first-rate pension plan
• 45 vacation days per year (25,5 vacation days + 19,5 paid-leave days)
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone
• Room to grow and develop your commercial & analytical skills and personal growth
• Working at Ahold Delhaize EU sourcing gives you a front-row insight in the strategy and key decisions of the broader Ahold Delhaize group, while working closing with our banners to leverage our scale across Europe
• The chance to collaborate with and learn from multiple sourcing experts
• The opportunity to make a real impact: healthy, affordable food for everyone

Requirements

• We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:
• 3–5 years of experience, Master’s degree or higher professional education (HBO)
• Enjoy a dynamic/challenging environment, take initiative, and look ahead
• Passionate about products
• Enjoy negotiating, but also crunch data to support fact based decision making, and like to work together in a team to create new ways of working
• Like to communicate at different levels in the organization, you’re confident, persuasive, and a good listener
• Have a focus beyond quick wins, are precise and persistent to reach your goals
• You know your way around Excel, Power BI, and PowerPoint
• Enthusiastic and bring a hands-on attitude
• Commercial experience in the broadest sense is a plus

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Are you keen to join the sourcing team? Even if you don’t tick all the boxes, but you still believe you have the personality and skills that make you a suitable candidate, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us. now via the button on this page, or feel free to contact Laura Fiumi via [email protected] if you have any questions.

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.

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Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.