Sourcing Specialist II

About Company:

The client is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable.

An Ideal Candidate:

An ideal candidate will be responsible for supporting the NSC Procurement Department for the North America-based 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. 

Key Competencies:

1.  Managing Purchasing related activities for specific categories/projects for Eurofins, in close coordination with the Category Manager and Business.

2.  Obtain significant cost savings in your Categories of scope/Projects for Eurofins companies with increasing level of quality and lower delivery time.

3.  Effectively collaborate with key stakeholders to understand the laboratory business requirements, align on goals and drive sourcing initiatives.

4.  Building a project pipeline, leading the sourcing process (RFI and RFQ) with the support of technical experts, including negotiations with suppliers.

5.  Influence and lead the change management (including set-up of test plans) to ensure sourcing practices, processes and tools are adopted across the organization.

6.  Self-motivation, performance driven mind-set to identify priorities and deliver within agreed deadlines.

7.  Research (social media, websites, etc) to gain market information, cost and risk management assessments.