- Senior professional with extensive procurement expertise, focused on tech-driven transformation in the media industry
- Proven ability to influence and build strategic relationships with high-level stakeholders
- Strong negotiation and communication skills, adept at handling complex contracts
- Experience managing multiple high-priority projects and contracts simultaneously
- Fluent in English, with Dutch as a plus
- Strategic thinker with a focus on delivering business value through procurement
- HBO or university degree, with a strong track record of procurement success
- Vendor Selection and Contract Negotiation: Work with internal teams to define needs, select vendors, and negotiate contracts. Assist with setting up commercial agreements.
- Contract Management: Oversee contract performance and ensure compliance with privacy and security requirements. Process invoices and purchase orders in SAP.
- Relationship Building: Develop long-term partnerships with technology providers, ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery of services.
- Work Environment: You will work in a dynamic, fast-paced setting that values flexibility and collaboration. RTL offers an innovative culture with room for entrepreneurship and experimentation.
A great opportunity to join the leading Dutch media company with a role oriented on tech-driven business partnerships and procurement life cycle management.
The Partner management team is performing the procurement for tech products and services, the end-to-end contract life cycle with tech vendors, and is responsible for maintaining qualitative partner relationships.
The team is the smart interface between external vendors and internal stakeholders (business and tech stakeholders, legal, finance), covering vendor selection, negotiations, contracting and ordering, playing an essential role in the vendor strategy for RTL's key technology platforms and IT solutions (streaming, adtech, data, software engineering, broadcast, product management, IT).
About usRTL started in 1989 as the first commercial broadcaster in the Netherlands. Our mission has not changed since then: we want to reach and inspire everyone in the Netherlands with essential stories that touch the heart and mind. RTL has five television channels (RTL 4, RTL 5, RTL 7, RTL 8 and RTL Z), streaming platform Videoland, three digital theme channels (RTL Lounge, RTL Crime, RTL Telekids), sales organization Ad Alliance and the platforms RTL.nl and RTL Weer / Buienradar. RTL Nieuws, Editie NL and RTL Z bring you 24/7 the latest news, their own journalistic research and interpretation via the broadcasts, website, app and socials. Our makers tell the stories that are relevant to the Netherlands. Personal, recognizable, close by and thanks to our tech and content experts you can view it where and when you want. We are always looking for new colleagues who bring a perspective that complements and makes us better. RTL is a subsidiary of the international RTL Group, part of Bertelsmann.