Graduation: Develop New Cost Models to Drive Smarter Procurement Decisions

Job Title

Graduation: Develop New Cost Models to Drive Smarter Procurement Decisions

Job Description

• Assignment type: Graduation
• Start date: February 2026
• Assignment duration: 6 months
• Location: Veghel
• Education level: Bachelor
• Desired study: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Data Science
• Language: Dutch/English

Description Of Assignment

Within the Procurement department, we manage the costs for several Allocation Groups. There are several Allocation Groups to manage. Like, wheels, rollers, extrusion parts, motors, controls cabinets, pneumatic equipment etc.
 

Parts are purchased for years, so there is a lot of historical data.
 

To support the different Category Managers and Cost Engineering, during the project development, it would be very helpful to have a good insight into what the cost drivers are for an Allocation Groups. What is their influence on the price?
 

If we have this knowledge modeled, we can use this to give better fact-based estimations and budgets towards the wider Vanderlande organization.

We need to develop cost (price) models for specific Allocation Groups. One at a time and preferably to be used on global level.
 

Department Description

Cost Engineering is part of Procurement. The latter is a department within the CPO (Chief Procurement Officer) organization and is a strategic part of the worldwide delivery of products and services to our projects. There is a high degree of cooperation with departments like Technology, Engineering and Sales.

Tasks/Responsibilities

• Deep dive in a specific Allocation Group (and their related manufacturing capabilities); agree both on which category.
• Collect and clean-up the available historical data.
• Build a cost (price) model for the specific Allocation Group (and their related manufacturing capabilities.
• Prove-out correlation with real project cost.
• Set-up manual (how to use the cost (price) model.)

Your Profile

• Hard skills: Expert MS Excel (VBA programming), Database management, Data analysis, Data Science, foreign languages skills
• Soft skills: Problem solving, Teamwork, Creativity, Attention to detail, Self-direction
• *Mandatory enrolment to a Dutch Education System & resident of The Netherlands. 

Contact

Do you recognize yourself in this challenging profile? Are you looking for an internship in our organization? Please fill out the application form and upload your resume and cover letter. For more information, contact us by e-mail: internship@vanderlande.com.