Buying Assistant - Household

Buying Assistant Household

Full-time, 38 hours per week

Are you commercially minded and looking for a job where you can make a real impact on what millions of customers see on our shelves? Become part of our purchasing team as a Buying Assistant for our Household category and discover how much influence you’ll have on Action’s product range – from supporting strategic buying decisions to choosing the exact colors of the next must-have kitchen gadget!

These are your daily actions

Our buyers are responsible for finding the best household products for our stores, but as a Buying Assistant in the Household category, you’ll have significant decision-making power that goes far beyond traditional support roles. You’ll actively shape what appears on Action’s shelves across Europe.

Your influence ranges from supporting buyers on major purchasing decisions to having your own creative input on product specifications. Yes, you’ll help coordinate the purchasing process from A to Z, but you’ll also be the one deciding whether that new storage container should come in sage green or dusty pink, determining the ideal size for our next set of mixing bowls, or suggesting which innovative household gadgets deserve a spot in our stores.

You’ll analyze emerging trends in home living, negotiate product specifications directly with suppliers, coordinate with Supply Chain for optimal delivery schedules, and collaborate closely with Marketing and Promotion to ensure your chosen household products get the attention they deserve. While there are administrative tasks to keep everything running smoothly, the majority of your time will be spent making commercial decisions that directly impact millions of households across Europe.

This becomes your team – Let us tell you about Buying in Action!

As part of the Household team, you’ll help introduce more than 150 new products weekly across all categories. In Household specifically, you’ll have direct input on our range of approximately 800+ household items – from kitchen essentials and storage solutions to cleaning tools and home organization products.

Your decisions matter: whether it’s selecting the perfect shade for our seasonal dinnerware collection or determining which smart home accessories deserve shelf space, you’ll have genuine decision-making power. Together with your team, you’ll ensure our household range remains sustainable, surprising, affordable, and balanced. Entrepreneurship and customer focus are central to everything we do, and in this role, your commercial instincts will directly shape what customers discover in our stores.

This is you:

You love organizing and ensuring everything runs smoothly, but you’re also excited about having real commercial decision-making power. You thrive in a dynamic environment where you can quickly switch between supporting strategic buying decisions and making your own product choices – whether that’s selecting colors, determining sizes, or identifying the next trending household item.

You have strong organizational and communication skills, but more importantly, you have a sharp commercial eye for what household products will resonate with customers. You’re someone who notices details – like which storage solutions actually work in real homes or what kitchen gadgets people truly need – and you want to translate those insights into product decisions.

We also require:

• Completed HBO degree in a commercial field
• Experience in a commercial environment (retail, purchasing, or product development preferred)
• Knowledge of systems, such as Excel
• Good command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written
• A keen eye for household trends and consumer needs

What we offer

Surprisingly much!
From our vibrant home base in the Netherlands, your household product decisions will have impact across all of Europe. The counter now stands at 2,000 stores in 10 countries and millions of customers who’ll interact with the products you help select and specify. And we have big growth ambitions – for Action and for you.

Your growth means taking on even more decision-making responsibility. A different category, leading innovation projects, developing supplier relationships, or even moving into senior buying roles: you can develop professionally without limits. All of this in a culture where our shared values are truly lived: discipline, respect, teamwork, customer focus, cost consciousness, and simplicity.

Did you know that with us you can also count on:

• A market-conform salary based on a 38-hour work week
• 24 vacation days and the possibility to purchase 5 extra days
• Flexible working hours, naturally in coordination with your team and manager
• 15% employee discount on your Action purchases (including all those household items you helped select!)
• A good pension scheme, collective health insurance, and travel expense reimbursement

How we contribute to society

If you only know Action from the stores, a world will open up for you when you come work with us. Behind the scenes, we’re working hard to make a positive impact on society and the environment. Did you know, for example, that we sponsor 1,737 children worldwide who are growing up in an SOS Children’s Village? That our team reflects the diversity of our customers, including 124 nationalities? That we already source 70% of our wood products and 86% of our cotton sustainably? And that more than half of our stores only use energy-efficient LED lighting?

In the Household category specifically, you’ll contribute to our sustainability goals by helping select eco-friendly storage solutions, energy-efficient kitchen appliances, and household products made from sustainable materials. Yes, that’s also Action. Curious about what other initiatives we facilitate? Strengthen our team and discover it yourself.

Interested?

We’re proud to be an inclusive employer, and we warmly invite everyone who recognizes themselves in this vacancy to apply. Ready to have real impact on what millions of households across Europe use in their daily lives? Take action and respond to this vacancy now!