Stationery and Entertainment Buying Assistant

Your daily tasks

Our buyers are responsible for finding the best products for our stores. Our stores have 14 categories, ranging from clothes to office supplies and cleaning products to DIY. As a Buying Assistant, you will enjoy a lot of freedom and responsibility to build the product range in your category. You will do this by supporting the buyers in the purchasing process from start to finish. This includes looking at upcoming trends, making agreements with suppliers about product specifications, seeking agreements with Supply Chain about deliveries, and sparring with Marketing and Promo to get your products in the spotlight. You will also take on administrative tasks. In this dynamic role, you will have an overview and will have plenty of scope to work with others in the

Buying team. As a true all-rounder, you will ensure procurement processes run smoothly and adminsitration is up to date, and gain commercial insights. To maintain high quality, you will organise and visit stores, check samples received, and maintain contact with our national and international suppliers.
 

Your team

Let us tell you about Buying in Action! You and more than 50 colleagues are the driving force behind Action's success. As a team, we are continuously shaping Action's range and introduce more than 150 new products every week. Together, we are responsible for our sustainable, surprising, cost-effective and well-balanced product range of around 6,000 items. Entrepreneurship and customer focus are at the heart of everything we do. Whether it's planning or buying, your role is crucial for Action's growth across Europe.  Speaking of growth, you will also make great strides thanks to the many opportunities for personal development and career options. Join our international, energetic, open and supportive team and help us surprise our millions of customers every day!

You will join the Stationery & Entertainment team in the Buying department. Your colleagues look forward to working with you!
 

What you offer

You enjoy making arrangements, making sure that everything runs smoothly and is accurately recorded. You prefer to work in a dynamic and developing environment where you need to respond quickly and engage with several stakeholders at the same time. You have strong organisational and communication skills that will help you run processes smoothly and have a sharp, fresh, commercial attitude. 

You also have the following: 

• Completed higher professional education in a commercial field
• Experience in a commercial environment
• Knowledge of systems such as Excel
• A good command of Dutch and English (both spoken and written)
   

What we offer

Quite a lot, actually! From our bustling headquarters in the Netherlands, you'll have an impact across the whole of Europe. We're now up to more than 2,000 stores in 10 countries and millions of smiles from our customers – and we're not stopping there, with big growth ambitions both for Action and you. Our growth means you can always take new steps to develop as a professional, whether that's a new job, an interesting innovation project or new skills. And you can do all this in a culture where our shared values of discipline, respect, teamwork, customer focus, cost-consciousness and simplicity are lived day in, day out.

You can also count on Action for the following:

• A competitive salary based on a 38-hour week
• 24 days' holiday and the option to purchase five additional days
• A temporary contract with the intention of offering you a permanent contract in the long term
• Flexible working hours in consultation with your team and manager
• A 15% staff discount on your purchases at Action 
• A good pension scheme, collective health insurance and travel expenses allowance
   

How we contribute to society

If you only know Action from the stores, a new world will open up for you when you join us. As an example, we're working hard behind the scenes to make a positive impact on society and the environment. Did you know, for example, that we sponsor more than 1,737 children worldwide who are growing up in an SOS Children's Village? Or that our team reflects the diversity of our customers, representing 124 nationalities? Or that 70% of our wood products and 86% of our cotton now comes from sustainable sources? Or that we only use energy-efficient LED lighting in more than half of our stores? Yes, that's Action, too. If you're curious about what other initiatives we're taking, join our team and see for yourself.
 

Interested?

We're proud to be an inclusive employer, and we warmly invite anyone who sees themselves in the vacancy to apply. So take action and respond to this vacancy now!

What happens next:

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

Throughout the process, your recruiter is your permanent point of contact and is available to answer any questions you may have.