Clinical Strategic Sourcing Benchmarking Specialist

The Clinical Strategic Sourcing Benchmarking Senior Specialist will lead comprehensive benchmarking initiatives across Eurofins clinical operations in Europe with occasional scope extending internationally if required by the business. This role involves driving crosscountry benchmarking exercises ensuring accurate and harmonized data collection and analyzing total cost of ownership (TCO) to identify pricing disparities and costsaving opportunities.

Working closely with country lab representatives and experts business leaders and category managers the specialist will will assess consumables pricing and other costs while considering broader factors such as service levels quality lead times supplier performance and labour costs. Findings will translate into clear actionable recommendations that support strategic decisionmaking and subsequent sourcing initiatives.

The successful candidate will combine strong analytical capabilities with exceptional stakeholder management skills within a project management framework driving the collection of results by ensuring timely data gathering alignment and of benchmarking initiatives across countries and business units. The role requires inperson presence at the Brussels office with potential travel to address more complex issues when needed.

Key Responsibilities

1. Benchmarking and Data Collection

• Lead 23 benchmarking projects simultaneously balancing workload based on project complexity.
• Engage directly with country business lines laboratories biologists and subject matter experts to gather clinical sourcing data and test information from local systems.
• Ensure speedy data collection across countries while guaranteeing the information is harmonized accurate and complete.
• Evaluate pricing by category and subcategory considering total cost of ownership including labour impact and regulatory specifics.

2. Analysis and Insight Generation

• Analyze benchmarking data efficiently identifying key insights and opportunities for cost optimization.
• Apply judgment to prioritize significant cost drivers while deprioritizing nonmaterial costs.
• Conduct TCO assessments including comments from stakeholders regarding broader factors such as service levels quality lead times and supplier performance.
• Present findings in a clear concise and actionable format for stakeholders.

3. Stakeholder Engagement and Project Management

• Act as the project manager for benchmarking initiatives ensuring timely progress and stakeholder alignment.
• Organize and lead meetings with country business lines providing clear context and expectations.
• Follow up persistently to chase missing data and ensure project completion.
• Prepare materials and insights for senior steering committees (steercos) including the Regional Business Line CFO Clinical Business Leaders and the Head of Global Purchasing.

4. Strategic Recommendations and FollowUp

• Collaborate with category managers and business leaders to develop recommendations based on benchmarking findings.
• Support the creation of timelines for followup projects to capture identified value.
• Ensure insights are integrated into sourcing strategies and category plans.
• Stay informed of ongoing RFPs to incorporate fresh benchmarking data into decisionmaking.

Qualifications :

Core Skills:

• Strong analytical skills with advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Excellent problemsolving abilities and the capacity to simplify complex matters and provide options to various challenges (by country cost of operating subject to various regulatory etc ... .
• Effective stakeholder management and interpersonal skills with a strong emphasis on teamwork and collaboration.
• Ability to balance numbers with people navigate resistance to desired change and calibrate time contingencies.
• Ability to collect structure and analyze data while ensuring accuracy and harmonization.
• Clear and concise communication with the ability to present findings to senior leadership.
• Sense of urgency get things done on time.

Preferred Tools and Systems:

• Experience with Power BI and Coupa is a plus.
• Familiarity with LIMS systems is beneficial but not required.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering Finance Business or a related field.
• 57 years of experience in purchasing sourcing supply chain management or financial analysis/benchmarking.
• Demonstrated success in leading crossfunctional projects and benchmarking initiatives.
• Experience working across multiple countries and stakeholder groups.
• Language : English (must have) and second language of the following: French German and Spanish.

Additional Information :

We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100 of the requirements Dont 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!

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Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries to make life and our environment safer healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the water you drink to the medicines you rely on Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food environment pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology forensics advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics discovery pharmacology forensics advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and invitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes France to 63000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 950 laboratories in 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety identity composition authenticity origin traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022 Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.