Associate Buyer, Fragrance and Beauty; Eastern Europe

Associate Buyer, Fragrance and Beauty (Eastern Europe)

• Open application for Eastern Europe Market.
• Rotterdam, Netherlands (Onsite)
• Salary: 3150 – 3500 pm
• Yearly bonus structure with no upper limit

Own the purchasing for the Eastern European market end to end. We give you a few leads and a couple of existing accounts to start. Create opportunities where there wasn’t any, chase it down, and turn a first order into a supplier who calls you first. The edge that makes this work: we work across markets your suppliers and our customers don’t see.

So a good buyer here ends up knowing more than the people on both sides of the deal. That’s what makes you valuable.

• Own the full cycle. Find the lead, make first contact, negotiate, close, and keep the relationship alive after.
• Know the floor. Every colleague, what they sell, what they need. Half your edge comes from inside the building. People should start coming to you because they know what you’ve got.
• Cold-reach suppliers and retailers who often don’t reply. Email, call, Linked In, Whats App, in person. It’s a numbers game. Most seeds don’t grow. Some do. You keep planting.
• Push for the real answer, not the polite one. Not “your price is too high” but “what’s your target, what volume, why not.”
• Move first. The deal goes to whoever moves fastest. While others think it over, you get there and lock the better price.
• Build depth over months and years with the partners who matter. Study them, solve their messy problems, become their first call.
• Take calculated risk and own the outcome, good or bad. When others wait on a reply, you make the call and close it, then work shoulder to shoulder with Logistics and Finance to land the deal.

Your first month is intense, intentionally so. We invest heavily in training, structured video, in‑person coaching, and a programme built to get you sharp, fast. But no training beats the floor. You sit in the middle of it, close enough to hear live negotiations unfold and deals close in real time. You absorb the role by living it. That’s why trading is office‑based, the constant flow of information and the few minutes’ edge of being physically in the room are too valuable to give up.

After that first month, the growth doesn’t stop, it just becomes self‑directed.

No warning here, just the reality, so you can decide if this role is for you:

• No one hands you your next lead. You decide what to chase, and you start without being asked.
• A “no,” an objection, or a week of silence is the start of the work, not the end of it.
• You’ll try things, make real mistakes, and learn from them fast.
• The job runs on pressure and the next level, not comfort and routine. Our rule of thumb: uncomfortable if too comfortable.
• Success in sales happens on the client’s timeline, not the clock’s
• There’s a friendly rivalry over who sells higher, who buys lower, who ranks where. It pushes everyone up.
• Feedback here is blunt and direct. We mean it as fuel, never as an insult.
• The bonus is real, and so is the daily push it takes to earn it. The whole philosophy in one line: we don’t push people. Top performers push themselves. The number is just the result. The effort is the choice.

• A salary of EUR 3,150 to 3,500 depending on experience, plus a bonus.
• The human stuff, handled:
• 25 days off plus your birthday,
• 100% employer‑paid pension,
• Friday drinks
• Subsidised warm lunch at the office
• Subsidised Urban Sports Club
• Open Up mental‑health support,
• Travel reimbursement,
• Christmas party worth staying for,
• A first‑row seat. You work directly with the founder and across every team. No walls, no politics.
• Kennismigrant visa sponsorship, so the right person can come from anywhere.
• A flat, casual team from 33 nationalities where you can be completely yourself.
• And Punk, our company dog, who is better at being himself than most of us.