Primary Packaging Global Category Buyer (all gender)

Job title: Global Lead Buyer Primary Packaging – All Gender

About the job

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one overarching mission - to work passionately, challenging ourselves and our industry every day, to build a healthier future by helping people, help themselves, bringing “Health in Your Hands”.

Our teams are building trusted & loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, enabling better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To fulfill this mission, we are embarking our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees in this journey because this is what will make us become the “Best Fast-Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) Company In & For the World”.

We strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view.

To achieve this, we need strong talent who will help us shape the future of our Consumer Healthcare business. At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we aspire to create a work environment where people can thrive, grow, and be at their best every day. Our priority is working with integrity to improve the health and well-being of people and communities where we operate, working towards making a positive impact in the world.

Our Team:

Within the global procurement team, we are performing market intelligence, we are designing strategies and we are negotiating to select and propose the best suppliers for our business, to support our growth by improving our performance and adapting our material to ours brands and market’s needs, to ensure supply continuity, to improve sustainability while ensuring quality and to support innovation and time to market.

Our team is a multicultural one to be agile and able to adapt to the worldwide specificity and constraints while developing our expertise for the categories we are managing.

The Directs Procurement team closely work with our stakeholders, mainly M&S, Science Hub and Growth Hub and we are involved upfront in any kind of projects supporting Opella Growth. We are 20 team members, located all around the world to support our 13 industrial sites in Raw, Packaging, Capex and Maintenance – and we are managing 700m€ spend.

Within the team, you can develop your appetite for risk taking, creativity, entrepreneurship, and agility. Are you fond of scouting, sourcing, and negotiating and would you like to thrive in a fast-moving consumer world / breakthrough project which enable / highly support growth? Do you want to improve your stakeholder’s management?

Please, do not hesitate, join our multicultural team, and enjoy our journey.

Main responsibilities:

Primary Packaging global Lead buyer will manage several subcategories of Primary Packaging Material covering 13 plants located worldwide, ensuring sourcing on global perimeter. Business Continuity, Performance, Sustainability and Risk Management are our key missions.

Build, sell to business and implement / execute competitive and innovative Procurement category strategies across the world

• impacting business: e.g., value creation, performance in terms of net saving and cash and simplification

• managing knowledge and packaging expertise to develop cost structure model and anticipate market trends

• monitoring execution of saving/dual sourcing, opportunities, and projects

Manage suppliers’ relationships and negotiations

• providing ad hoc and reliable partners list - ensuring compliance and security of supply (quality & capacity), best in class commercial value (cost and cash) and world class service

• developing partnership with strategic suppliers so that Opella becomes the” customer of choice” for their innovative solutions enabling transformational value creation impacting top and bottom line and solutions that support our sustainability roadmap

• identifying opportunities and solutions for “buying better and buying less/spending smart”, drawing on deep domain expertise and by working in close collaboration with the budget owners - launching tender and negotiating prices and conditions

Build, drive / execute and monitor performance agreed during financial cycles

• reliability as well as consistency

• predictability is key

Ensure business partnering

• be the voice of Directs Procurement @ specific facility/ies, as focal point for Finance and Site Head as well as key actors

• organize and activate interactions with Global Buyers to improve sites P&L

• contribution to business strategic plan, budget & providing progress reporting as required

About you :

• Experience: At least 5 years of experience in procurement, experience with proven track record in building and leading cross functional team. Experience in packaging purchasing would be ideal.

• Soft skills:  challenger mindset, effective communication skill, capacity to develop a strategy thinking while managing operational ones, capacity to resist to stress and pressure

• Technical skills: Data management, cost structure management, negotiation skill/tools

• Education: University degree in engineering, business school or equivalent

• Languages: Fluent in English

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But 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. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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