BESIX Group is a leading multidisciplinary Belgian Group, operating in construction, construction, real estate development and concessions. BESIX Group was founded in 1909, and has grown impressively over the years. BESIX Group operates in Northern and Eastern Europe, North and Central Africa and the Middle East through its subsidiary BESIX Construct, as well as in Canada and Australia. The group stands out in its sector by having its own internal Engineering Department, with wide-ranging expertise in geotechnical engineering, concrete technology, methods, planning, and BIM, System Engineering and similar tools.
In 2022, the Group achieved a turnover of EUR 3.4 billion. BESIX has about 12,000 employees active in 25+ countries with more than 80 different nationalities.
Find more information at: https://www.besix.com/.
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The Category Manager Concrete material & Civil works is the leader of the procurement strategy and the recognized expert in procurement. He/she is leveraging BESIX assets to define a strategy in category sourcing that ensures competitiveness and profitability of the Group. He/She will report directly to the Procurement Director Europe.
Core tasks:
- Define procurement strategy for his/her respective category in collaboration with stakeholders (projects, technical, business…) and associated vendor panel.
- Support competitiveness with Tendering teams.
- Support profitability during project execution.
- Responsible for Synergies and cost reduction identification and application within BESIX Group and the procurement network.
- Support innovation capture with vendors and promote inside relevant businesses.
Mission and responsibilities:
- Define procurement strategy for his/her respective category in collaboration with stakeholders (technical, business…) and promote within businesses.
- Define preferred vendors and manage vendor relationship.
- Is responsible of the preferred vendor list update.
- Initiate, negotiate, manage and promote vendors’ framework agreements at BESIX Group level.
- Coordinate and animate buyers’ network inside BESIX group for his/her category.
- Support Tendering teams by providing vendors and market prices visibility.
- Support project execution for BESIX Contracting and Regionals with adapted strategic inputs and negotiation support or responsibility.
- Manage vendor performance feedback and adapt BESIX vendor strategy.
- Drive a regular market screening to adjust Vendor panel development.
- Identify and execute opportunities on price reduction (Tendering & Execution) according to objectives, including group synergies.
- Master’s degree – Engineer is a plus.
- Procurement certification/degree is a plus.
- 5-year experience in the category (as buyer or technical expert).
- 10-year experience in supply-chain role.
- Commercial sensitivity.
- Business acumen.
- Convincing and Influencing.
- Professional knowledge of English. Professional knowledge of Dutch and/or French.
- Strategic thinking.
- Open and active listening.
Informations supplémentaires
A career at BESIX is a lot more than just a job, it's about being part of our changing and innovative world. Your skills, ambition and passion will contribute to the development of our different businesses and allow us to succeed in the challenges of the coming years.
Working for the BESIX group allows you to be a part of a dynamic, creative and entrepreneurial company. It gives you a safe and collaborative working environment with ambitious and innovative goals for the world of tomorrow, but also for your career and personal development.
We are looking for different kinds of personalities, mindsets, backgrounds and genders to build the iconic and sustainable projects of tomorrow.
Are you ready to make an impact and leave a positive legacy for years to come? If you are passionate about our purpose to Excel in creating sustainable solutions for a better world, come and join our caring BESIX family. Together we will co-create our future.
Working at BESIX brings a lot of great benefits including:
- An attractive remuneration package including a salary in line with the market and a range of employee benefits such as flexible mobility advantages, extra-legal pension, medical care insurance, work-life balance program (such as teleworking, child care, flexible work schedule, mobile working), Health Management (sport, health check-up program, …);
- Career development programs that serve not only to ensure that you are constantly learning and improving but also that give you the possibility to expand your career horizon;
- A dynamic, creative and safe working environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavors (ideas, projects, goals, ambitions);
- Possibility to work on complex projects within both a local and international environment;
- The choice to remain locally anchored for the coming years or to seek an exciting international career opportunity within the group.
