Buyer, Factor Europe (m/f/x)

The role

The Supply Chain Operations team is part of the Factor Upstream Operations team - together with the Sourcing Specialists, Production & Fulfillment teams you make sure products are available at the right time, quantity and quality to ensure a smooth meal production. You thrive on solving challenges, building processes and love stepping up to take the initiative. With your strong communication skills, you quickly identify bottlenecks and take decisive actions to elevate processes. You excel in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, effortlessly juggling multiple tasks and adapting to a variety of tools and systems.

Why join Factor?

Factor is the youngest brand in the HelloFresh Group, focused on delivering high-quality, ready-to-eat meals. Joining our team means becoming part of a fast-paced, dynamic environment full of challenges and opportunities to grow alongside an ambitious team.

Here’s why you’ll love working with us:

🍽️ Impact & Innovation: You’ll play a key role in shaping Factor’s supply chain operations - ensuring
🌍 International Collaboration: Work across multiple European markets, partnering with suppliers and internal teams from diverse backgrounds
🚀 A High-Growth Environment: Factor is growing fast, meaning vast opportunities to take initiative, improve processes, and grow alongside an ambitious and driven team
💡 Best of Both Worlds: Experience the dynamic energy of a scaling brand, while benefiting from HelloFresh’s established tools, best practices, and global network

Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What you’ll do

• Responsible for placement of  purchase orders with allocated vendors for a variety of food and packaging SKUs, ensuring accuracy in price, quantity, and buffer levels.
• Partner with production, fulfillment and suppliers to guarantee on-time deliveries and inventory availability.
• Recommend, test, and implement new processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Review purchasing information to validate accuracy, maintain compliance with procedures, and quickly identify discrepancies.
• Address and resolve operational, purchasing, or quality/performance issues with professionalism and urgency.
• Update purchase orders, track freight, manage production issues, process invoices, and monitor inventory levels to keep everything on track.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure no missed orders or ingredient substitutions due to supply issues.
• Work alongside a high-performing team to build, strengthen, and continuously improve our supply chain

What you’ll bring

• At least 1-2 years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations Management, or a related field
• Flexibility for occasional weekend work and travel
• Stress resilience and a hands-on approach
• A proactive, data-driven, and result-oriented mindset
• Excellent communication skills, able to work across different teams and cultures
• Fluency in German and English (other European languages are a plus)

What we offer

• Freedom to initiate, execute and implement your own ideas
• Lots of learning and development opportunities
• 24  holidays based on 40 hours per week per year, pro rata
• A hybrid work setup - with roughly 2 days in our Amsterdam office 
• Reimbursement of travel expenses to the office
• Discount on your ClassPass subscription, and a discount for your gym membership via Bedrijfsfitness Nederland 
• Discount on your additional health insurance through Zilveren Kruis
• A discount on your weekly, Factor, HelloFresh and/or Green Chef box in the Netherlands
• Healthy lunches, fruit and snacks in the office 
• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• Social activities with our culturally diverse team!

About HelloFresh

HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever!

Since our 2011 founding in Europe’s vibrant tech hub, Berlin, we’ve become the world's leading meal kit provider, delivering to over 4.2 million households worldwide in 15 countries across 3 continents. 

Our more than 15,000 employees from over 70+ nationalities are the heart and soul of our diverse, fast-paced and dynamic environment where innovation and smart, fast action is encouraged. 

We will encourage you to make an immediate impact in your area of work as well as empower you to grow your career with us.

Are you up for the challenge?

Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.

After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days. 

We are HelloFresh

At HelloFresh we embrace and welcome diversity and we currently employ over 15,000 individuals globally who contribute to this. We employ individuals based on their ability to perform a job rather than on the basis of their: race, national origin, color, caste, social origin or position, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, political opinion, marital status or any other characteristic. We encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunity employer – everyone is welcome at our table.

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