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Our supply chain agents automate procurement end-to-end, from demand forecasting to purchase order execution, resulting in 32% less inventory, 80% less manual work and dramatically higher product availability.\nWe’re not building a software tool; we’re enabling organizational transformation. Buyers go from spending entire days on purchasing decisions to having intelligent agents handle routine orders while they focus on strategic partnerships and growth. CFOs see immediate cash flow improvements. Procurement leaders see their teams work smarter, not harder.\nJob Description\nForward deployed engineers work where the problem is: with the customer. Ours work in supply chain. You sit with a purchasing team, understand how they really buy, and build the logic that makes Optiply work for them, often in the same week.\nThis isn’t a pure software engineering role. You don’t need to write production code; you need to understand supply chain deeply and be able to build with SQL, Python and low-code tools. Combined MOQs, container shipments, promotions, phase-outs, multi-store setups, suppliers with very different lead times: you design the logic, build it, and make sure it keeps working.\nYou’ll report to Sander van den Broek, co-founder, and work side by side with our supply chain team.\nThis is what you'll be doing\nBuild & Solve\nCustom Workflows: Translate non-standard purchasing rules into automated workflows using SQL, Python and other tools\nComplex Analyses: Dig into customer data to answer the questions that move real money: cash flow, OTIF, container planning, service levels, deadstock. Your best prototypes can become product features.\nData & Integrations: Find out why data in Optiply doesn’t match a customer’s ERP, WMS or webshop (Exact, AFAS, NetSuite, Picqer, Monta, Shopify and more). Work with our integration team on the fix and decide what’s a workflow job and what’s an integration job.\nAccount Health: Track health KPIs per customer, such as service level, on-time/in-full, advice adoption and deadstock.\nAutomate Customer Success: Build and improve the AI agents and automations behind our CS process, so the team spends its time on customers, not admin.\nWith Customers\nImprovement Sessions & QBRs: Sit with purchasers, supply chain managers and finance to understand how they really work, show results and agree on what’s next.\nOn Site: Visit customers across the Netherlands and Belgium to kick off complex setups. Build relationships with decision makers before there’s a problem, not after.\nFrom Meeting to Solution: Take a customer’s problem out of the meeting room, turn it into a live solution, and follow up until it works.\nSales & Onboarding Support: Join business case meetings and complex onboardings as the supply chain expert in the room.\nThis is who we’re looking for\nYou get a kick out of solving problems standard software can’t, and you’d rather build the fix yourself than write a ticket about it. You’re as comfortable in a SQL query as in a room with a customer’s purchasing team.\nSupply Chain Know-how: 3+ years in a supply chain, purchasing, inventory or technical consulting role. You understand service levels, ABC/XYZ, EOQ, MOQs, lot sizes, lead times, safety stock and forecasting, and how they play out in practice.\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree (HBO or WO) in Industrial Engineering & Management, Logistics, Supply Chain Management or a related quantitative field. 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