Direct buyer (f/h)

Descriptif de l'entité et de l'activité

Nous sommes partout dans votre quotidien et vous ne le voyez pas ! Des bulles de votre soda à la puce de votre smartphone, en passant par la réduction des émissions polluantes, nous participons chez nos clients au développement innovant de leurs applications, via notre entité Air Liquide France Industrie.

Air Liquide France Industrie réunit les activités de production et de commercialisation des gaz industriels en France avec 4 branches d'activité complémentaires : Grande Industrie, Industriel Marchand, Electronique et Hydrogène. La filiale compte 2400 collaborateurs, répartis sur 58 sites sur l'ensemble du territoire, et sert plus de 200 000 clients, de l'artisan aux industriels de la pétrochimie, des laboratoires d'analyse au secteur des semi-conducteurs et à la métallurgie.


Quelle sera votre contribution et comment vous épanouir dans ce poste ?


As a Direct Buyer you will ensure the deployment of European and/or Regional category strategies and execute the sourcing process for local categories. You will manage significant spend and contribute directly to cost optimization and performance improvement within the organization.


Sourcing & Contract Management

* Execute Sourcing: Apply sourcing strategy or develop your own for categories not managed by a Category Manager. You'll launch eRFx to pre-selected suppliers, analyze offers using a TCO approach, and facilitate the supplier selection process with requesters.

* Negotiate & Contract: Prepare fact-based negotiations, define roles for Air Liquide stakeholders, select the final supplier, and negotiate supply contracts using pre validated templates from legal.

* Implementation & Compliance: Promote preferred suppliers and contracts to internal customers and track successful implementation and contractual compliance locally. Manage actively contract updates, including price updates, volume rebate collection or other changes required.

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

* Manage relationships with external suppliers, including defining supplier future strategies, conducting business reviews and auditing financial stability

* Risk & Performance: Contribute to supplier performance evaluation and risk identification/mitigation to ensure compliance with the risk mapping.

* Qualification: Animate the supplier qualification and audit process in collaboration with Inspection teams, HSEQ, and Technical experts.

Stakeholder Management & Continuous Improvement

* Develop and manage relationships with internal customers (Business Lines, Functions). Consolidate their feedback on category strategies and supplier performance.

* Optimize Costs and create value: Lead working sessions with internal customers to identify TCO reduction opportunities and proactively organize workshops for further opportunities such as technical innovations and/or standardizations

* Improve Processes: Identify opportunities for automating Purchase Orders (catalogs, Open PG etc.). Undertake corrective actions with suppliers and internal Clusters/Functions to improve performance and contract compliance including claim and non conformity management.

Reporting

* Consolidate and present sourcing action plans to the management

* Reporting and consolidating efficiency projects and ambition, using SRS savings project reporting tool

* Make sure the claim database is updated and claims are managed

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Background

* Work Experience: 3/5 years experience in Procurement or a talented graduate with first relevant working experience gained and proven through internship

* Education: A degree in an adequate discipline (e.g. Business or technical)

* Language: Must be fluent in English and have very good knowledge of French.

Key Expertise

* Strategic planning and strategic sourcing.

* Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), including financial analyses

* Cost management and techniques like Functional & Value Analysis (re)-design to cost

* Industry expertise in relevant manufacturing company environment

Management & Behavior Skills

* Results oriented and commercially smart

* Analytical skills and IT savvy (AI Gemini, Google…)

* Highly influential with strong interpersonal and communication skills

* Strategic thinker with good prioritization and decision-making skills

* Able to work under pressure, with high reactivity and pro-activity

* A team player focused on Internal Customer Orientation


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