About this role
NL Procurement Manager Full-time On-site Cargoplot promises importers choice, transparency and reliability. That promise is only as good as the suppliers behind it: the truckers who collect in the Netherlands, the carriers who move the boxes, the agents who handle origin in China. Today those relationships are spread across the team. This role brings them under one owner. You negotiate what we buy, you hold suppliers to the quality we sell, and you carry the consequences when something goes wrong. This is a hands-on role, close to the operation. What you'll own The supplier base - Source, vet, onboard and contract suppliers: NL trucking first, plus ocean and air carriers and our origin agents in China - Keep enough coverage and redundancy per lane that no single supplier can take our service down - Offboard suppliers who don't perform, and do it before ops has to work around them - Own supplier data and rate cards in Notion and the platform, so sales and ops quote from one source of truth The buy side - Negotiate rates, surcharges, free time, D&D terms and payment terms - Run rate renewals and tenders; own our buy rates - Secure capacity ahead of peak, CNY, Golden Week, Q4 Quality and accountability - Define what good looks like per supplier type: on-time pickup and delivery, document accuracy and timeliness, data quality in our platform, response time, damage and claims rate - Run a scorecard per supplier and a review cadence with the ones that matter most - Be the single owner when a supplier causes a problem: root cause, recovery of cost where warranted, claims handled - Be the escalation of last resort for ops when a supplier stops performing, and turn repeat failures into a supplier decision, not another escalation Cross team - Serve sales and pricing with buy rates and feasibility on new lanes - Work with product and ops on what suppliers must do in our platform: bookings, milestones, documents, and hold them to actuall...