As a Senior Sourcing Specialist, your primary responsibility will be to support the NSC Procurement Department for the North America-based Eurofins companies. You will typically report into one of the Category Managers (e.g. Consumables, Clinical, Service Contracts, Capex, Logistics or others ) and refine processes as well as execute new category strategies as they pertain to current projects. Eurofins is searching for a candidate that possesses the following skills:
- Full end-to-end ownership of categories in scope, including project identification, sourcing leadership, and prioritization in alignment with the Category Manager. Responsible for managing the savings plan to deliver significant value.
- Lead and integrate assigned portfolio of spend related to M&A activities.
- Building a project pipeline, leading the sourcing process (RFI and RFQ) with the support of technical experts, including negotiations with suppliers.
- Obtain significant cost savings in your Categories of scope/Projects for Eurofins companies with increasing level of quality and lower delivery time.
- Managing relationship with stakeholders up to ELE Presidents and effectively collaborate with key stakeholders to understand the laboratory business requirements, align on goals and drive sourcing initiatives.
- Influence and lead the change management (including set-up of test plans) to ensure sourcing practices, processes and tools are adopted across the organization.
- Research (social media, websites, etc) to gain market information, cost and risk management assessments.
- Sound analytical skills and use of Excel to conduct both executive and detailed level spend analysis, analyzing trends, ability to link and leverage spend and find savings opportunities.
- Preparing reports and presentations for management and communicating key insights to stakeholders.
- Integrating organizational measures like supplier diversity, sustainability, cash flow improvement, automation, digitization etc into the process of the scope managed
- Leading negotiations with suppliers across a spectrum of complexity, from straightforward agreements to intricate, multi-faceted contract, often collaborating with supplier leadership.
- Knowledge of legal and contractual issues and negotiating contracts
- Organize priorities and projects with the ability to adapt to Purchasing department/customer/business needs.
- Self-motivation, performance driven mind-set to identify priorities and deliver within agreed deadlines.
- Although on the job training would be provided, success in this role hinges on candidate’s ability to work autonomously, manage tasks without requiring constant oversight, and demonstrate a strong capacity for self-directed learning on the job.
- Being agile and adaptable to Eurofins and team needs, which may include potential assignment of new goals and adjustments in roles and responsibilities within the Purchasing team.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Managing supplier selection, RFP process, negotiation, contracting and supplier performance processes.
- Creating a strong knowledge and intelligence base for assigned categories, market dynamics and suppliers relevant to the business.
- Strong resilience and ability to work under pressure in a multi-tasking and multi-priority environment to manage both operational and ‘value driven’ purchasing.
- Ensuring the administration, implementation, compliance, and enforcement of national commodity and contracting strategies
- Driving sourcing process alignment through project management including compliance regarding scope, timeline, deliverables, total cost of ownership, quality, and budget.
- The ability to lead negotiations for multi-site group contracts and extract cost savings.
- Building relationships with external suppliers
- Acting as Purchasing Business Partner for a few Legal Entities and being the single point of contract for internal stakeholders
- Various reporting as defined in team’s processes or as defined by the manager.
- Reviewing Purchase Order requisitions in Coupa and ensuring best value sourcing for the scope managed
- Robust e-catalogue and pricing management in the procurement tool including making regular checks for compliance.
- Leading and integrating assigned portfolio of spend related to post-acquisition activity.
- Leading both sourcing and operational scope in purchasing.
- Experience working in Excel and use of pivot tables, standard excel functions.
- Experience with Coupa Source-to-Pay is an asset but not mandatory.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and excellent written and oral communication
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Coach or train Sourcing Specialists and Associates