Senior Buyer Raws & Packs

"We are non-conformist Good Rebels, bringing the "WOW" to everything we do."

Our manifesto:

At Heura we’re food activists, and our mission is to provide a solution that leaves animals out of the food equation, while feeding millions of people in a sustainable way. Technology gives us the opportunity to build a food system that not only solves our current challenges but also responds to our values.

We’re currently looking for a Senior Buyer for Raw materials and Packaging materials who can contribute to our mission by managing and optimizing all the Procurement activities linked to the company’s innovation and production processes.

Optimal category management is strategic to ensuring Heura’s ability to maintain a cutting-edge innovation process and its ability to distribute top-quality products to the market while not only meeting the target service levels during its projected growth but also continuously working on reducing product cost. The resulting price positioning will help facilitate the transition of consumer preferences to plant-based products.



Your challenge:

⦁ Have complete knowledge of the market, thereby allowing you to identify all the potential ingredients, materials, and suppliers that can help to accelerate our innovation process, improve key metrics, and minimize the time-to-market (helping with R&D and supply chain challenges).
⦁ Involve all departments in Procurement processes to facilitate cross-functionality.
⦁ Maintain a Supplier Relationship Management approach that aligns the company’s portfolio of key suppliers, profiles, and capabilities with business needs in terms of innovation, product quality, service quality, capacity, compliance, and cost competitiveness.
⦁ Formalize contractual relations with the key suppliers, thereby including all compliance requirements linked to legal, corporate, and social responsibility; operations; and quality, while maintaining a systematic focus on protecting Heura’s sensitive and IP-related information.
⦁ Lead internal SRM meetings with all internal stakeholders to discuss the performance of global key suppliers and to align communication flows, current agendas, and priorities with the company’s suppliers.
⦁ Lead external SRM meetings with suppliers according to a cross-functional approach, in which you go over business updates and projections, discuss current performance (quality, service, etc.), provide updates on major opportunities and improvement plans, etc.
⦁ Participate in preparing and validating the procurement policy and strategy.
⦁ Negotiate purchasing deals, meet the company’s requirements, and optimize purchase prices.
⦁ Ensure that Procurement-related Master Data are properly maintained in the ERP (updated purchasing conditions, purchase prices, etc.).
⦁ Maintain full management of category spending (budgeting and cost control processes, deviation analysis, and pipeline of cost reduction initiatives), including Total Cost of Ownership.
⦁ Prepare and periodically update the sourcing risk management map and include recommendations.


You will rock in this role if:

⦁ More than anything else, you care about our mission, and you see it as a “personal” problem to be solved professionally.
⦁ You have an engineering degree. An MBA or a Procurement-related Master’s Degree is a plus!
⦁ You have thrived as a Procurement specialist or in a Category Buyer position in the FMCG industry for 4+ years. Experience with the Raw Materials and Packaging Materials category is a plus!
⦁ You are a strategic and analytical thinker, and you are always looking at the business impact in everything you do.
⦁ Negotiation is in your blood, and you understand the way to go is by being honest and humble.
⦁ You are a curious, creative individual who looks for the WOW in anything you work on.
⦁ You communicate fluently in English.



Heura Life benefits:

Making this world a better place is hard work, so we support our Dream Team with:

⦁ Limitless professional development at Europe’s fastest-growing company in its category
⦁ A culture of freedom, responsibility, and radical honesty
⦁ An entrepreneurial environment that encourages innovation
⦁ Unlimited holidays
⦁ A flexible working environment
⦁ Private Health Insurance
⦁ Cool perks such as fresh fruit and healthy snacks
⦁ Discounted gym memberships
⦁ Discounts on Heura’s products
⦁ After-work gatherings every month and other cool company events



Diversity and Inclusion:

Diversity and inclusion are important to us, and we’re constantly working to improve these aspects. At Heura, we don’t just accept our differences, we fully support and celebrate them.

We’re committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, or gender identity or expression. We strive to be an equal opportunity workplace.



If you see yourself here and can meet the key requirements, we would love for you to apply.

Or, do you know someone who would be a perfect fit? Let them know!

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