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About Damen
We’re made for ships. From design and construction to financing and lifecycle support, ships are at the core of everything we do. Guided by our values of stewardship, craftsmanship, fellowship, and entrepreneurship, we are committed to creating sustainable solutions for the maritime world.
We’re on a mission to help our clients harvest the oceans of possibilities presented by our waters – for the generations to come. To achieve our goal, we need people who share our vision and drive.
Damen Workboats
Within the Damen Shipyards Group, Damen Workboats focuses on the development, design, and construction of tugs, dredgers, and workboats. Our strength lies in series production of smart-customized standard designs, enabling us to deliver innovative, standardized solutions that respond to both current and emerging market demands. By maintaining a careful balance between quality, service, price, and delivery time, we provide our clients with reliable and competitive vessels worldwide.
The Category Purchaser position is part of the Supply Chain department within Damen Workboats, which brings together the teams of Procurement, Category Management, Supply Chain Engineering, Material Planning, and Standards & Documentation. Together, these teams ensure a reliable, efficient and high-quality supply chain.
Your role as a Category Purchaser
As a Category Purchaser, you are responsible for the procurement of essential components such as engines, systems, windows, and valves. Playing a key role in the supply chain that supports the production of our workboats at shipyards in Vietnam, Turkey, China, and the United Arab Emirates.
In recent years, our procurement organization has evolved from a project-based to a category-based structure. The next phase focuses on further strengthening and maturing our supply chain. In this role, you manage the day-to-day purchasing activities for a dedicated group of suppliers and closely monitor performance through KPIs such as on-time delivery, completeness of part data, and quality non-conformities. In close alignment with Category Management and our suppliers, you ensure contracts and pricing remain accurate and up to date, while continuously identifying opportunities to optimize total cost of ownership.
You take ownership of placing purchase orders yourself where required, while also coordinating and delegating purchasing activities with operational buyers within our team and at our international shipyards. In addition, you actively contribute to supplier development and process improvement initiatives. Therefore, collaboration is key: you work closely with colleagues from Material Planning, Category Management, and other stakeholders to ensure a reliable, efficient, and high-quality supply chain.
What will you do?
As a Category Purchaser, your responsibilities will include:
What do you bring?
What we offer
At Damen, we invest today in the future of tomorrow—and we do this together. That’s why we continuously invest in your development, both professionally and personally, so that we keep learning and growing together. Damen offers (for a full-time position):
Why join Damen Workboats?
At Damen, you’ll have the opportunity to develop yourself in an international, dynamic work environment. We offer a workplace where innovation, teamwork, and personal growth are at the forefront. Together, we’re shaping the future of the maritime industry!
Ready to come on board?
Apply today and discover how you can contribute to the innovation of workboats at Damen Workboats.
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Recruiter:
Gerard Eggink
Email:
gerard.eggink@damen.com
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Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer growing possibilities in the areas of trade, food, energy and recreation. To ensure global prosperity for next generations and keep the earth habitable with an ever-increasing population, it is essential to utilise and protect these possibilities as efficiently and responsibly as possible.
Damen provides unprecedented maritime solutions for this, through design, shipbuilding, ship repair and related services. We offer versatile platforms that enable our customers to be successful and that raise the standard in terms of safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability. We want to become the most sustainable shipbuilders in the world.
In the previous century, we revolutionized shipbuilding. Thanks to standardisation, we were able to supply our customers with better ships, faster. More than 90 years and 6,500 ships later, the importance of standardisation is only increasing in the light of zero-emissions and digitalisation.
We do not build our ships alone, but together with an extensive network from the international maritime cluster. We firmly believe in the power of sharing. It means that we also use our craftsmanship to build platforms on production facilities that are not ours. In this way, through knowledge transfer, we not only contribute to better, safer and more eco-friendly ships, but also to sustainable local development and prosperity.
We are a family owned business and stand for fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship. Our playing field is the world. Our horizon is the long term. We firmly believe in our team, but also in the strength of the individual. Each colleague is an entrepreneur, focused on ensuring truly satisfied clients and making our contribution to a better world. In every aspect of our business the next generation is our starting point.
