CATEGORY MANAGER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND CONSULTING

We are everywhere in your daily life and you don’t see it With our entity Air Liquide France Industrie, we participate of our customer's innovative development applications : the bubbles of your soda, the chip of your smartphone or the reduction of polluting emissions,

Air Liquide France Industrie brings together the production and marketing of industrial gases in France with four complementary business lines : Large Industry, Industrial Merchant, Electronics and Hydrogen. The subsidiary has 2,400 employees at 58 sites across the country and serves more than 200,000 customers, from the artisan to petrochemical manufacturers, from analytical laboratories to semiconductors and metallurgy.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

Strategic Category Vision & Executive Demand Shaping

Reporting directly to the Procurement Director, you will be the strategic architect for all external intellectual services across Europe—encompassing Strategic Advisory, Tax & Legal, Audit, HR Services, and Engineering Design Offices. Acting as a trusted partner to C-suite leaders and functional chiefs, you will shift the enterprise culture from transactional sourcing to strategic demand management. By accelerating digital buying platforms, enforcing robust corporate governance, and engineering value-driven commercial structures, you will deliver measurable bottom-line performance while modernizing our European footprint.

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• Architect Multi-Year Category Strategies: Define, deploy, and govern cohesive European strategies to consolidate spend, reduce supplier fragmentation, and elevate addressed spend coverage.
• Institutionalize GP10 Advisory Governance: Lead the European rollout of our governance framework, elevating compliance rates toward group targets and embedding procurement oversight early into high-stakes transformation roadmaps.
• Shape Executive Demand: Challenge internal requirements constructively, ensuring rigorous business case justification and deliverable clarity before external consultancy mandates are initiated.

Digital Ecosystems & Procurement Innovation

• Scale Digital Marketplace Ecosystems: Lead the European expansion of digital platforms across Europe to streamline freelance, engineering, and advisory sourcing.
• Drive ERP & Buying Model Integration: Collaborate with IT and Global Business Services (GBS) to streamline platform integration, removing operational bottlenecks and driving channel compliance.
• Harness AI & BI Capability: Leverage AI tools, BI dashboards, and interactive ChatBots to maximize spend visibility, automate buying processes, and deliver a best-in-class internal customer experience.

Commercial Excellence, Financial Recovery & Risk Management

• Structure Tier-1 Strategic Frameworks: Negotiate complex Master Services Agreements (MSAs), performance-based fee structures, and gain-share models with top-tier strategy firms and niche advisors.
• Drive Financial Recovery Programs: Expand cross-border cash recovery initiatives, across the UK, Austria, Switzerland, and European entities
• Deliver Structural ECCO Value: Achieve recurring and one-off cost cutting on OPEX while safeguarding enterprise risk across IP rights, data privacy, and co-employment frameworks.

Vision Stratégique de Catégorie & Cadrage de la Demande Exécutive

• Concevoir des stratégies de catégorie pluriannuelles : Définir, déployer et mesurer des stratégies européennes cohérentes pour consolider les dépenses, réduire la fragmentation des fournisseurs et augmenter le taux de couverture des achats sous contrôle.
• Institutionnaliser la gouvernance consultative (Procédure GP10) : Piloter le déploiement européen de notre cadre de gouvernance, porter les taux de conformité vers les objectifs du groupe et intégrer la supervision des achats très en amont des feuilles de route de transformation stratégique.
• Challenger la demande exécutive ( Demand Shaping ) : Remettre en question les besoins internes de manière constructive, en garantissant une justification rigoureuse du Business Case et une clarté absolue sur les livrables avant le lancement de tout mandat de conseil externe.

Écosystèmes Digitaux & Innovation Achat

• Développer les écosystèmes de marketplaces digitales : Diriger l'expansion européenne des plateformes digitales pour rationaliser le sourcing des freelances, des prestations d'ingénierie et du conseil.
• Piloter l'intégration ERP & des modèles d'achat : Collaborer avec les équipes IT et les GBS ( Global Business Services ) pour simplifier l'intégration des plateformes, éliminer les goulets d'étranglement opérationnels et garantir le respect des canaux d'achat.
• Exploiter les capacités IA & Business Intelligence (BI) : S'appuyer sur les outils d'IA, les tableaux de bord BI et les chatbots interactifs pour maximiser la visibili