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Purchasing Director

Purchasing Director

EurofinsBrussels, Brussels, BE
30+ dagen geleden
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Job Description

Eurofins Scientific is looking for a Purchasing Director, who will work in a fast growing organisation and a multinational environment.

The responsibilities of the Purchasing Director will be to :

  • Lead a team of Category Managers & Buyers (approx.. 30 FTE) to drive Savings, across all Direct and indirect categories, with a focus on bottom line impact and Savings in Consumables
  • Reporting directly to the Head of Purchasing, Legal, Risk management and Insurance
  • Manage a set of local Purchasing Leaders in the countries
  • Set targets for the Purchasing Managers in the regions, manage their priorities, train them and unblock issues
  • Be part of the Purchasing Lead Team to drive the future of the organization and priorities
  • Identify projects for cost optimization through effective spend data analysis
  • Conduct negotiations with the biggest suppliers in the Countries
  • Personally manage the biggest Savings projects for the regions and for the Division
  • Ensure effective supplier selection, vendor management and global tendering processes
  • Draft and review purchasing contracts in line with business objectives
  • Complete the team by recruiting new talent into Eurofins
  • Further expand the use of Coupa, the Group Purchase to Pay tool
  • Define and implement standard buying processes, leveraging Coupa
  • Learn about Eurofins specific processes, best-practices, systems and tools and implement them to the regions in scope
  • Drive Coupa adoption and PO compliance in the Regions

Communicate results to Division Leadership

Qualifications

  • University degree in Supply Management, Finance, Economics or equivalent directly-related experience
  • Business Fluency in English
  • 8+ years of experience in purchasing / procurement / strategic sourcing / SC area with an emphasis on international Purchasing Management or on a similar position
  • Excellent knowledge of whole range of different Categories
  • Understanding and experience of working with a defined procurement process
  • Proven ability to manage multiple tasks / projects and prioritize appropriately in a dynamic work environment
  • Strong data analysis skills and ability to work with complex data and information
  • Operational experience related to the Lab business
  • Desktop / PC proficiency including Microsoft Office, specifically : Excel, Word, PowerPoint

    • Additional Information

    We support your development!  Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

    We embrace diversity!  Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and / or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

    Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!