The Purchasing Assistant role will be positioned in the purchasing/procurement departments where data, documents and information are being processed following standardized procedures. This position works with buyers to ensure proper order levels and timing of delivery to achieve optimum production efficiency at the facility.
The work is well-defined and standardized. The Purchasing Assistant reports to the team manager.
The Purchasing Assistant role may also include some secretarial and general office duties as appropriate.
Job Description:
Purchasing
o Reviews, processes, and executes weekly mill and warehouse order requests, ensuring supply, and following through until delivery to ensure timeliness, and accuracy.
o Create and administers contract purchase orders from bookings made by buyer.
o Reviews, processes, and executes daily formulation requests, ensuring accuracy, legality, and our ability to manufacture as formulated.
o Handles inbound trucking and ingredient issues as needed.
· Data, document and information processing
o Receives, classifies, consolidates, and/or summarizes documents and information.
o Processes data and information in various systems / databases according to the relevant work instructions.
o Processes invoices, expense statements and other financial documents.
Our organisation:
Trouw Nutrition is the global leader in innovative feed specialties, premixes and nutritional services for the animal nutrition industry. Trouw Nutrition provides species-specific nutritional solutions consisting of feed concepts, products and nutritional know-how. The unique combination of products, models and services Trouw Nutrition offers, boosts productivity and supports animal health through all life stages, contributing to our customers' peace of mind. Trouw Nutrition's nutrition solutions have met the need of farmers and home-mixers, feed producers, integrators and distributors. Trouw Nutrition has locations in 25 countries and around 5000 employees. Our mission is Feeding the Future.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Trouw Nutrition is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, military status or any other status protected by applicable local law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Trouw Nutrition is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation, including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.
Skills Required
- Clerical and administrative office work (data processing, document processing, record and file maintenance)
- Process weekly mill and warehouse order requests and follow through to delivery
- Create and administer contract purchase orders from buyer bookings
- Process daily formulation requests ensuring accuracy and manufacturability
- Communicate daily with procurement, formulation, and production team managers
- Process invoices, expense statements and other financial documents
- Handle inbound trucking and ingredient issues as needed
- Support customer service with orders, invoicing and administrative functions
Nutreco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nutreco and has not been reviewed or approved by Nutreco.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. roles commonly advertise medical, dental and vision coverage with HSA/FSA options, plus disability and life insurance. Descriptions frequently characterize the overall benefits package as good.
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Retirement Support — U.S. positions cite employer‑matched retirement plans, and Netherlands roles reference robust pension provisions. These programs are presented as a core component of total compensation across locations.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off offerings include PTO and paid holidays in U.S. postings and generous vacation allowances in the Netherlands. Paid parental leave appears in some postings.
Nutreco Insights
What We Do
Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed. Our advanced nutritional solutions are at the origin of food for millions of consumers worldwide. Quality, innovation and sustainability are guiding principles, embedded in the Nutreco culture from research and raw material procurement to products and services for livestock farming and aquaculture. Experience across 100 years brings Nutreco a rich heritage of knowledge and experience for building its future. Nutreco employs approximately 11,000 people in 35 countries, with sales in over 90 countries.
