Sourcing Specialist

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW

• Support the Regional Category Manager in development of category strategy (for Local / Hub categories).
• Define and implement category strategy (for local categories).
• Implement the category strategic procurement process for local / hub suppliers.
• Provide insight into specific local / hub suppliers markets and business factors; ensure compliance with global policy.
• Interface between the local / hub business and the category and be first contact for suppliers.
• For local categories define category strategy based on internal present and future requirements utilizing supplier and competitor market analysis local HOP and key business stakeholders.
• Ensure deployment and maintenance of local category strategy in all entities.
• Manage contracts and supplier relationship in the long term.
• Be accountable for the procurement performance related to his / her portfolio.

Resolve issues related to supplier in his / her portfolio.

The Sourcing Specialist (Responsibilities)

Accountabilities & related Activities

Manage local spend in the category

Perform rigorous analysis on local category cost base and suppliers to ensure delivery of spend and efficiency targets.

Ensure supply to the business and execution of local procurement.

Own manage and negotiate local supplier relationships and take sourcing decisions.

Manage local supplier performance (performance to SLAs continuous improvement cost and innovation).

Stay abreast of market conditions and trends (including global pricing benchmarks) to inform strategy and ensure supply continuity.

Define and implement a local category strategy if required.

Implement best practice category management techniques

Implement standards processes and tools consistent with overall procurement function.

Comply with overall procurement spend and preferred supplier policies and monitor compliance of business end users.

Participate in the local and central skill development plan activities.

1. Category Strategy

Define 3 years local category strategy including the supplier strategy for its scope.

In close cooperation with Stakeholders establish yearly ambition and its updates (within the target and rolling forecast processes).

Implement and manage the local category strategy

Liaise with other HUB Category Managers / clusters / countries counterparts to ensure alignment on sourcing initiatives and priorities as well as assessing practices for consideration in own efforts.

Analyze current procurement portfolio spend supply base contracts for the local entity.

Analyze industry market profile and key suppliers TCO drivers.

Identify Risks & Opportunities

Perform internal and external benchmarks in relationship with the Procurement Performance Manager.

Identify short term opportunities (volumes consolidation bundling) and long term opportunities (standardization etc) and consolidate needs (OPEX and CAPEX) establish RFx planning.

2. Sourcing execution & Contract Management

Analyse requirements and challenge specifications with requesters.

Identify potential suppliers and propose the list to requesters.

Launch RFx to pre-selected suppliers and deploy the process of suppliers selection (technical and commercial) with requesters.

Analyze offers using TCO and Should Cost approaches make scenarios and propose short list of suppliers based on fact-based and agreed criteria to requesters.

Select suppliers and negotiate contracts / purchase orders in alignment with Regional Category Managers.

Communicate and explain contracts to Spot Buyers / Requisitioners and finance team for deployment and appropriate execution including Purchase Requisition to Purchase order creation in the system.

Communicate contracts to internal customers (Supply chain)

Establish measures and controls to ensure and track successful implementation of the contract in collaboration with Procurement Performance Manager.

Follow and manage contract implementation (application of price escalation formulas volume rebate collection products and services portfolio management progress clauses renewal etc.) including update of procurement database.

Define and periodically review buying channels.

Manage incidents and claims.

3. Suppliers relationship management

Lead SRM activities for key suppliers of his / her category (supplier strategy evaluations review and audit innovation initiatives internal promotion of supplier supplier days).

Understand the strategy of his / her most important suppliers.

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

Support in Corporate Social Program (CSP) nomination process (validation).

Lead supplier risk identification and mitigation to ensure compliance with risk mapping regulation.

Manage supplier qualification and system on-boarding in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

Facilitate introduction of suppliers to company level stakeholders.

4. Stakeholders management

Develop and manage relationship with internal customers to ensure deployment of category strategies.

Develop internal customer feedback on category strategies.

Develop internal customer feedback regarding Supplier Performance.

Lead working sessions with internal customers to identify TCO reduction opportunities.

Develop proactive proximity and build recognition of the procurement function with internal customers.

5. Continuous Improvement

Conduct periodic surveys to measure internal customer feedback for continuous improvement in collaboration with the Procurement Performance Manager.

Get suggestions from suppliers to improve AL processes and develop innovations originating from suppliers.

Undertake corrective actions with suppliers to improve performance (e.g. Supplier development programs progress plans) and track progress.

Undertake corrective actions with Functions to improve contract compliance.

Proactively organize sessions with internal customers to identify further TCO / TVO reduction opportunities : standardization joint process improvement opportunities value engineering etc.

Identify opportunities for automating Purchase Orders (catalogues Open PO Blanket Purchase Orders etc.).

Analyze spot buying reduction opportunities define and implement corrective actions.

6. Reporting

Consolidate and present Category Management action plan to his / her Management.

Provide periodic activity reporting to his / her Management on actual and projected savings related to his / her categories.

Are you a MATCH

Education : Bachelors degree in business / finance / economics.

Language : English.

Knowledge and Knowhow specific to the job

Be Act Engage

Category & Sourcing Strategy (Must have)

Category & Market Expertise (Must have)

Supplier Selection Qualification & Relationship (Must have)

Negotiations & Contract Knowledge (Must have)

Performance & Process Management (Data KPI & Digital Tools) (Must have)

Planification & Expediting (Good to have)

Financial Analysis (Transversal) (Should have)

Project Management (Transversal) (Must have

Data analysis.

Complementary Capabilities

Thinking & Partnering strategically

Influencing for Change

Managing conflict

Analysing and solving problems

Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication skills.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees our customers patients community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

Required Experience :

Unclear Seniority

Key Skills

Purchasing,Sourcing,Procurement,Vendor Management,ATS,HR Sourcing,Supply Chain Experience,Supplier Management,Contract Negotiation,negotiation,Contracts,Recruiting

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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