As a Sourcing Specialist your primary responsibility will be to support the NSC Procurement Department for the North Americabased Eurofins companies. You will 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:
- Managing Purchasingrelated activities for specific categories/projects for Eurofins in close coordination with the Category Manager and Business.
- Obtain significant cost savings in your Categories of scope/Projects for Eurofins companies with increasing level of quality and lower delivery time.
- Effectively collaborate with key stakeholders to understand the laboratory business requirements align on goals and drive sourcing initiatives.
- Building a project pipeline leading the sourcing process (RFI and RFQ) with the support of technical experts including negotiations with suppliers.
- Influence and lead the change management (including setup of test plans) to ensure sourcing practices processes and tools are adopted across the organization.
- Selfmotivation performancedriven mindset to identify priorities and deliver within agreed deadlines.
- Research (social media websites etc) to gain market information cost and risk management assessments.
- Sound analytical skills and use of Excel and PowerPoint.
- Analyzing procurement data and trends to identify opportunities for improvement 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 Negotiation with suppliers
- Knowledge of legal and contractual issues and negotiating contracts
- Organize priorities and projects with the ability to adapt to Purchasing department/customer/business needs.
- 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.
- Although onthejob training would be provided success in this role hinges on candidates ability to work autonomously manage tasks without requiring constant oversight and demonstrate a strong capacity for selfdirected learning on the job.
Qualifications :
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 multitasking and multipriority environment to manage both operational and valuedriven 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 multisite 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 teams processes or as defined by the manager.
- Reviewing Purchase Order requisitions in Coupa and ensuring best value sourcing for the scope managed
- Robust ecatalogue and pricing management in the procurement tool including making regular checks for compliance.
- Leading and integrating assigned portfolio of spend related to postacquisition activity.
- Leading both sourcing and operational scope in purchasing.
- Experience working in Excel and use of pivot tables standard excel functions.
- Experience in Sourcing or Purchasing is desired.
- Experience with Coupa SourcetoPay is an asset but not mandatory.
Basic Minimum Qualifications (BMQ):
- Bachelors Degree in Business Finance Supply Chain or Sciences (or related field) preferred
- Minimum of 2 years of Purchasing experience necessary.
- Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship
Additional Information :
Position is FullTime MondayFriday 8:00 a.m.5:00 p.m. with additional hours as needed.
What we Offer:
Excellent full time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage dental and vision options
Life and disability insurance
401(k) with company match
Paid vacation and holidays
Eurofins is a M/F Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
Eurofins is a M/F Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime