Technical Procurement Manager

Job description

🌊 Who we are? At Aquablu we're disrupting the marketplace with a revolutionary (flavored) water system. Brought to life in 2018, our founders Marnix and Marc promised a healthy but tasty alternative to soft drinks. Since launching our flagship system Aquablu REFILL in 2023, we've grown 300%+ year-over-year, expanded to 16 countries, and were named the Fastest Growing Tech Company in Health & Wellness in the Netherlands. We're an AI-native company. From engineering to sales to operations, we build with AI from day one — not as an afterthought, but as a core part of how we design systems and make decisions. About the role: We're looking for a Procurement Manager to build our procurement function from scratch — designing an AI-driven, scalable operation that transforms a fully outsourced process into a strategic in-house capability powering Aquablu's next phase of growth. Here's what makes this role unique: Aquablu is a vertically integrated hardware company. We design, engineer and develop everything in-house — from industrial design and mechanical engineering to embedded software and IoT connectivity. We then work with external contract manufacturers to assemble our products. That m...