TA Contracts and Procurement specialist

Are you a creator of change?

Everything we do at Neste serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. Over the past ten years, Neste’s transformation journey has taken the company from a local oil refining company to becoming a global leader in renewable and circular solutions.

Our purpose pushes us forward to search for new ways to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere, and to innovate circular solutions to reuse carbon again and again. Are you going to help us combat climate change?

Neste Netherlands is part of the Finnish parent company Neste. The plant in Rotterdam produces renewable fuels. Together with 200 colleagues we are working everyday to operate, maintain, and improve the plant in an efficient and safe manner.

We are looking for a Turnaround Contracts and Procurement Specialist to join our team in Rotterdam.

In his role you will be responsible for the Procurement & Contracting of required Services and Materials for refinery Turn Around and the yearly Shutdown. The TA Contracts and Procurement Specialist is responsible for creation and execution of the TA/SD Procurement strategy to ensure best possible value from the market, while complying to specifications and project timelines.

Your main responsibilities in creating a sustainable future are:

• Have the responsibility to plan and execute the procurement and contracting activities in TA / SD projects 

• Carve out the essentials for the procurement & contracting strategy in line with the global and regional guidelines and procedures

• Prepare and issue requests for quotation (RFQ) for both long term contracts and single purchases

• Perform commercial bid evaluations

• Perform negotiations with suppliers

• Create contracts and frame agreements

• Prepare and issue purchase orders

• Participate in final settlement of accounts 

• Closely work together with procurement counterparts abroad to align strategies on a global level 

• Assist in developing the procurement processes, implementation of new tools and ways of working in regional procurement

• Involved in supplier/vendor evaluation and audits

• Support in other Procurement areas such as Maintenance and Projects 

The best combination to success in this role:

• Bachelor in Technical Education discipline

• Experience minimum of 5 years

• Procurement and/or sourcing experience related to technical goods (equipment or materials), services and temporary resourcing

• Working experience in industrial TA / SD projects

• Experience with different type of contracting (such as unit rates, mini lump sums, reimbursable

• Hands-on contractor management

• Ability to communicate clearly and in professional manner both in English and Dutch

• SAP and systems for Planning, Project Management and Contract Management

We also value:

• A good team player.

• Flexible, analytical, stress resistant.

• Proactive searching improvements in all areas.

• Being able to talk to and/or correct team members on attitude and behaviour issues.

• High safety and quality awareness.

• Be able to handle confidential information.

• Good social and team skills.

Please submit your application as soon as possible.

If you have any questions regarding the process or the position, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition Partner Jaron Pouwelse via Jaron.Pouwelse@partners.neste.com. The recruitment process will include interviews and possible aptitude assessment.

Join us in creating a healthier planet for our children.

Our success is based on our people who are the driving force behind Neste’s transformation to become a global leader in renewable and circular solutions. We are also committed to carbon neutral production by 2035. The passion that we have for creating a healthier planet for our children is what makes us unique.

We have set high standards for biodiversity, human rights and supply chain. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies.

To carry out our strategy and business growth, our values guide our work. We support, develop and take care of the wellbeing of our people to enable them to grow, innovate and build our future.

We care. We have courage. We cooperate.

At Neste we want our people to feel good and do good. We provide clear and transparent targets, development opportunities, empowering leadership as well as rewards based on role and responsibilities.

The world is going through changes. At Neste our strategy reflects the understanding and mindset that we can be in charge of these changes to serve our purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children.

In the end, it is the people who make the company. We are Neste.

For more information, please visit neste.com.