Senior Buyer

Products are the heart of our business. As a Senior Buyer, you take full responsibility for driving the success of your category, ensuring we offer the best range, quality, and value to our customers. Picnic is fast-paced, data-driven, and complex - from pricing strategies and forecasting to warehouse automation and rapid company growth - providing endless opportunities to make an impact. You'll combine commercial insight, negotiation expertise, and supplier relationship management to shape your category and deliver measurable results.

Tricks of the trade

Negotiation strategies: Define and execute sophisticated negotiation strategies to secure competitive terms and long term value with suppliers.

Supplier management: Lead supplier relationships, negotiate contracts, and resolve operational challenges efficiently.

Category expertise: Develop deep knowledge of your category using data, customer insights, and supplier input to drive growth and innovation.

Commercial opportunities: Identify, evaluate, and implement commercial initiatives to maximize profitability and customer satisfaction.

Category improvements: Design and execute pragmatic improvement plans to optimize assortment, quality, and performance.

Supply chain: Work closely with the end to end supply chain to identify opportunities for operational efficiency.

Cross functional impact: Collaborate with analysts, marketing, and other teams to bring strategic initiatives to life and deliver results.

Your superpowers

BSc. or MSc. degree in Business Administration, (Business) Economics or equivalent

4 6 years of experience as a Buyer and/or Category Manager in a similar industry

Lots of energy, persistence and drive to ensure successful end result of many projects simultaneously

You know how to get the best best deals and are able to understand and assess what's on "the nego table"

Go getting mentality, hands on and nothing is impossible mindset

Excellent people knowledge and skills; you understand who you're talking, their interests and how to build relationships

Fluency in Dutch and English

Picnic perks

Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks

Our offices are equipped with fully fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.

We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent to own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate.

You'll get ample opportunity to work on yourself at Picnic. We offer personal development through Lepaya courses, Academy trainings, and more. Interested in improving your mental wellbeing? Through OpenUp you get free access to trained psychologists and many courses.

All the rest

At Picnic you get 25 holidays, we cover your travel expenses and offer a pension plan. And your phone and laptop are on us, as well.

A bit about us

When you join Picnic, you're joining the shopping revolution, delivering groceries to millions of people across Europe, and we're growing fast. Think super fresh products and personal service, but in a modern, sustainable way. And we're the only ones in the world doing it all by ourselves. From our fully automated fulfillment centre to delivery algorithms and marketing campaigns: we do it all in house. Our team consists of 85+ nationalities and we're always looking for new talent. Ready for the ride?

Recruitment Process

1. CV screening
2. Phone screening
3. Online assessment
4. Interviews
5. Assessment day
6. Closing interview
7. Offer

Commitment to equal opportunities

Picnic is an equal opportunity employer-this means that all decisions regarding applications will be based on qualifications and merit. Applicants will be regarded independently of age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, skin color, civil status, religious beliefs, physical or mental disability, or any other factors protected by law.
At Picnic, we celebrate and value our differences and are committed to building a safe and inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves.