Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist

About Company:

The client is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable.

An Ideal Candidate:

An ideal candidate will take 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 spending related to M&A activities. 

Key Competencies:

1.Building a project pipeline, leading the sourcing process (RFI and RFQ) with the support of technical experts, including negotiations with suppliers.

2.Obtain significant cost savings in your Categories of scope/Projects for Eurofins companies with increasing level of quality and lower delivery time.

3.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.

4.Influence and lead the change management (including set-up of test plans) to ensure sourcing practices, processes and tools are adopted across the organization.

5.Research (social media, websites, etc) to gain market information, cost and risk management assessments.

6.Managing supplier selection, RFP process, negotiation, contracting and supplier performance processes.

7.Creating a strong knowledge and intelligence base for assigned categories, market dynamics and suppliers relevant to the business.

8.Strong resilience and ability to work under pressure in a multi-tasking and multi-priority environment to manage both operational and ‘value driven’ purchasing.