DIRECT BUYER (F/H)
We are everywhere in your daily life and you don’t see it ! With our entity Air Liquide France Industrie, we participate of our customer's innovative development applications : the bubbles of your soda, the chip of your smartphone or the reduction of polluting emissions,
Air Liquide France Industrie brings together the production and marketing of industrial gases in France with four complementary business lines : Large Industry, Industrial Merchant, Electronics and Hydrogen. The subsidiary has 2,400 employees at 58 sites across the country and serves more than 200,000 customers, from the artisan to petrochemical manufacturers, from analytical laboratories to semiconductors and metallurgy.
How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?
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
Are you a MATCH?
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
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.