Referenzschreiben, Einkaufsleiter (engl.) (sehr gut) / Letter of Reference

To Whom It May Concern:

I am pleased to give my judgement on Mr Jens Dahlbusch, who was employed with [name of company] in various positions, since [date of occupational advancement] as Purchase Manager Raw Materials.

Jens began his career with [name of company] on [date of joining the company] as Trainee for our oil milling and fruit juice production business. In this position he executed several operations in [locations of branches].

After the successful completion of his traineeship, Jens was employed at our [name of branche] as Raw Materials Dealer. Soon Jens proved his convincing capabilities to overlook the diversified market and quickly react to price fluctuations, thus saving us important profits.

As a consequence Jens was given further responsibilities and was promoted to Purchase Manager Raw Materials operating from [name of branche].

In this twin function Jens was responsible for the purchase of several raw materials, in particular soya, rape, and sunflower oils as well as for the sale of the raw materials to our customers in the whole Mercosur and partly also Mexico, mainly important players in the food industry.

Jens fulfilled all strategic and operational tasks such as planning and forecast, customer and supplier relationship management, contract management and negotiations, market research, and quality management.

In all his positions Jens convinced us with his profound expertise and his finely honed management skills. Especially when it came to pricing Jens proved an excellent negotiator with a good feeling for future trends. He was thus able to fix prices that were to our favour but did not alienate our business partners.

Jens is a very astute, diligent, resourceful, and reliable individual who would readily help every colleague or team mate, so that the company’s performance would be improved. Due to his good analytical and organisational abilities plus his resilience Jens developed effective solutions to any problem and delivered very good results even in very challenging situations. Indeed we could always rely on Jens, who was a very sociable, dedicated and completely trustworthy and confident member of our management team. Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, he was a widely accepted negotiator in the market. Thanks to his very good English skills he was regularly involved in transcontinental project work and communicated effectively with every customer or supplier.

In conclusion, Jens always met our highest expectations and delivered an exceptional performance. Being widely appreciated both inside and outside [name of company], his behaviour was always to our utmost satisfaction.

I regret to lose Jens, who leaves us on his own account as he has been offered an attractive alternative in Europe. I thank him for his loyal and superior achievements and wish him all the best in his future endeavours. Should you have any questions concerning Jens, I will be happy to underline my high recommendation personally.

Place, [date of issue]

Joaquin Aquino

Country Manager