Buyer Food and Drink

(Full-time, 38 hours per week)

Be a buyer for the fastest-growing discount retailer in Europe! Do you want to surprise our customers every day with essentials at the lowest prices and exciting new products? Then we are looking for you!

What does a Buyer Food and Drink at Action do?

You are entrepreneurial, commercially driven, and know how to get things done. That’s what makes buying at Action unique. Every day, you work on optimizing the performance of the Food & Drink category. You do this by staying on top of your numbers and visiting stores weekly—because that’s where our customers are and what everything at Action revolves around.

As a buyer, you are responsible for the Food & Drink category. Within this category, you act as an entrepreneur, managing all aspects of purchasing together with your team. From data analysis, planning, and quality improvement to introducing new products and sustainability initiatives.

You interact daily with buying assistants and departments such as Supply Chain, Commercial Planning, Product Technology, and Marketing. Together, you ensure that our assortment is high quality, low-priced, and always in stock.

You mainly work from our head office in Zwaagdijk. You will regularly travel within Europe and, depending on your category, also to the Far East. You visit suppliers, trade fairs, and stores to spot new trends. You search for new products while also focusing on improving quality, reducing costs, and making existing products more sustainable.

Each year, you create a category plan in which you anticipate future opportunities. You conduct both financial and commercial analyses and define key focus areas to elevate your category to the next level.

The Buying Department

Together with 30+ colleagues, you are responsible for purchasing the assortment for all stores across Europe.

As a team, we introduce more than 150 new products every week. Together, we manage an assortment of approximately 6,000 items with the best price-quality ratio. Entrepreneurship and customer focus are at the core of everything we do.

Thanks to our rapid international growth, there are many opportunities for personal development and career advancement.

This is you

You love entrepreneurship. You enjoy negotiating with stakeholders from different cultures—from Italian account managers to Chinese suppliers. You also collaborate in the office with colleagues from various countries and cultural backgrounds, where English is the primary working language.

You are aware of your (financial) responsibility, keep an eye on the latest trends, and gain energy from pursuing opportunities both domestically and internationally.

Additionally, you have:

• HBO level (higher professional education)
• At least 3 years of experience as a buyer
• Strong English communication skills (spoken and written)
• Digital skills to work with various IT systems and tools such as Excel

What we offer

Quite a lot! From our vibrant home base in the Netherlands, you will have an impact across Europe. We currently operate more than 3,300 stores in 15 countries, bringing millions of smiles to our customers—and we have big growth ambitions, for Action and for you.

Our growth means you can continue to take new steps. Whether it’s an innovation project or developing new skills, you can grow without limits as a professional. All within a culture where our shared values are truly lived: customer focus, teamwork, simplicity, discipline, cost awareness, and respect.

You can also count on:

• A competitive salary based on a 38-hour workweek
• 24 vacation days with the option to purchase 5 additional days
• 15% employee discount on purchases at Action
• A solid pension plan, collective health insurance, and a company car or mobility allowance (Zwaagdijk-Oost is reachable within 30 minutes from Amsterdam without traffic jams)

How we contribute to society

If you only know Action from the stores, a whole new world will open up when you join us. Behind the scenes, we are working hard to make a positive impact on society and the environment.

For example:

We sponsor more than 2,500 children worldwide growing up in SOS Children’s Villages. Our team reflects the diversity of our customers, with over 125 nationalities. All our private-label chocolate is Fairtrade certified.100% of our cotton is sourced as “Better Cotton”. All our trucks run on biofuel, and electric trucks supply stores in the Netherlands and German. All stores use LED lighting and gas connections are being replaced with electric heating. And there’s much more—join our team to discover it yourself.

Interested?

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and warmly invite everyone who recognizes themselves in this vacancy to apply. So take action and apply now!

What happens next

1. Response to your application within 14 days (usually sooner)
2. First interview with the hiring manager and a colleague
3. Online assessment to get to know you better
4. Second interview, including your recruiter
5. Welcome to Action

Throughout the process, your recruiter will be your main point of contact and available for any questions.

Integrity is very important to us. A pre-employment screening is part of the process for this vacancy. Ask your recruiter for more information.