Job title: Global Lead Buyer (Secondary Packaging)

• Location: Budapest, Hungary
  

About the job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready? As the Global Lead Buyer “Secondary Packaging” reports to the Global Category Manager Packaging and is responsible for a large spend sub-categories (papers, plastics, metal, moulded glass), for driving category strategies building & execution, supplier relationship management, strategic sourcing implementation and operational execution. Under the leadership of the Global Category Manager or the Global Business Partners, he/she defines the proper senior business connectivity and strategic supplier governance to execute procurement strategies improving timeline, cost, quality and sustainability. He is accountable for optimizing total-cost-of-ownership, marging and deliver best in class savings target year over year. The scope of this position is global and for all entities of Sanofi Group.

We’re an innovative global healthcare company that helps the world stay ahead of infectious diseases by delivering more than 500 million vaccine doses a year. Across different countries, our talented teams are exploring new technologies to protect people and promote healthy communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main responsibilities:

Strategy & Governance:

• Build & execute competitive and innovative sub-categories strategies: based on market intelligence, assessing risks and opportunities, fully aligned on budget & LRPs, delivering value to the businesses, actively engaging key stakeholders and lead specifiers from the businesses while delivering year over years world class total savings objectives 
• Ensure mastery of Procurement technical excellence (Total Cost of Ownership, Supplier Relationship Management, Market Intel, Risk Management, Innovation, CSR, HSE, compliance, quality) and develop global supplier market expertise
• Anticipate and consolidates all business needs to carry out worldwide negotiations on specific sub-categories for a global strategic sourcing strategy, with regional implementation plans 
• Manage Global Business Reviews & Performance with identified key suppliers

Operations Management:

• For the subcategories in scope, lead RFx processes, negotiations, and support contract development with global suppliers, design and execute competitive bidding process for global sub-category projects to obtain the best overall value-added solutions from candidate suppliers
• Build a solid roadmap for all sub-categories, including project and savings pipeline during budget cycle and maintain it throughout the year
• Partner closely with Legal, Compliance, Internal Control and Finance teams towards successful completion of complex global scale negotiations while ensuring the operational sourcing & action plan follow up for his/her procurement sub-categories (compose of different spend families) fully aligned with category management strategy/orientation
• Drive the development of new market/innovation opportunities (new suppliers, technologies, substitution products, etc.)  and suppliers’ negotiations: globalization & harmonization programs, as well as any major supplier issues to ensure business continuity and assurance of supply
• Establish risk mitigation plans in collaboration with Global Procurement Transformation & Excellence teams whenever necessary underpinned by the suppliers' assessment / scorecards results  
• Build & Share to key stakeholders and relevant procurement teams: market trends, benchmark against industries, budget assumptions and LRP 
• Drive the development of new market opportunities (new suppliers, technologies, substitution products, etc.) while working closely with procurement services to leverage as much as possible the middle and back-offices services
• Support “pre/post-audit” management, Crisis management

Stakeholder Management:

• Lead Stakeholders management to ensure business needs are properly and timely met  and engage upfront main Business Partners of Global Business Units and Support Functions
• Ensure proper Business Partnering at corporate level, with global functions as well as global Business Units, as it pertains to their respective sub-categories, ensure adequate lead specifier profile for the sub-categories and leverage Country Procurement Heads to ensure procurement strategies are applicable at local level

About you

Experience:

• 10+ years' experience in Procurement or related field

Soft skills:

• Technical knowledge of the sub-categories/domain, Mastering Negotiation technics
• Strategic thinking
• Results oriented 
• Good understanding of business, operations, and legal aspects including service level agreements, KPIs’
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, flexible, receptive, resourceful, creative, and results oriented
• Assertive, high-level communicator, good organizational skills, excellent presentation skills, Team player with excellent interpersonal sensitivity
• Confident and capable in interacting with key stakeholders and vendors 
• Influential management, ability to convince and persuade others regarding appropriate solutions
• Experienced and confident in managing complex and undefined business situations
• Ability to work in a complex multi-functional matrix organization across functions, countries and cultures
• Strategic and innovative approach for business solutions while in compliance with external and internal policies
• Transversal Management skills are required for this position
• High sense of Ethics, Business integrity and compliance in doing business

Education:

• Minimum Master degree from an accredited College or University

Languages:

• Fluency in English

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave
• Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our Procurement Team for Indirects having a great opportunity to be part of a diverse team while you will gain Manufacturing and Supply chain procurement knowledge as well
  

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Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

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