Junior Group Buyer

Descripción del puesto:

Company Description:

(COMPANY NAME) 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, (COMPANY NAME) 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.
(COMPANY NAME) is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of (COMPANY NAME) companies.

Job Description:

The role will be called on to support both level global and local projects, so basic negotiation and communication skills are required. Junior Group Buyer coordinates purchasing activities with stakeholders requests to achieve the result in a cost effective and timely manner. Performs cost analysis, recommends cost saving proposals with alternative sourcing and vendor evaluation criteria.
Works on issues of moderate and less scope where analysis of situations or data are required so analytical skills shall be at least at intermediate level. Junior Group Buyer will be a part of team working on implementation of category strategy so strong strong sense of team is required, knowing that their efforts contribute to the success of the whole. Shall express strong willingness to learn and capability for further development within purchasing organization.
As a Junior Buyer, your daily responsibilities are:
* Lead non-complex purchasing activities to drive continuous improvement for the Group
* Support the end-to-end sourcing process including searching for new supplier options
* Communicate, follow-up and maintain the commercial agreements in portfolio
* Achieve your KPIs
* Negotiate with suppliers on all commercial terms with support of superior purchasing team member
* Ability to research and identify capable vendors or contractors
* Work with stakeholders and the Procurement Team to prepare RFP specifications and structure
* Support implementation of category strategy together with a Procurement Team
* Maintain a variety of procurement processes and systems such Coupa (purchasing tool)

Qualifications:

Personal skills:
* Minimum 1 year of proven negotiations record in a global, multinational, strategic procurement environment
* Process oriented in global company with independent entities
* Good written and spoken English
* Minimum intermediate level Excel skills
* The ability to operate effectively in an environment with tight deadlines and finite resource and uncertainty
* The ability to achieve the ends in quickly changing business environment
* Project management experience as an additional asset
* Proper customer service orientation and problem solving skills
* Proper written and verbal communication skills
* Cultural awareness and pro-active behavior
* Negotiation and analytical skills
* Analytical thinking
* Self esteem
Education
* Bachelor or Master of business processes (Economy, Administration, Business, Finance), Engineering, Food Technology, Chemistry

Additional Information:

* Very attractive, multicultural and friendly project environment in fast growing international company
* Flexible working hours
* Possibility to grow and make the next step in your professional career and self-development
* Positive work atmosphere
We support your development! Do you feel you don't match 100% of the requirements? Don't hesitate to apply anyway! (COMPANY NAME) companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! (COMPANY NAME) 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 (COMPANY NAME) 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: (COMPANY NAME) 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, (COMPANY NAME) 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 (COMPANY NAME) 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 in-vitro diagnostic products.
In over 35 years, (COMPANY NAME) has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. (COMPANY NAME) companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.
In 2022, (COMPANY NAME) generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years