DIRECT BUYER

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? As a Direct Buyer you will ensure the deployment of European and/or Regional category strategies and execute the sourcing process for local categories. You will manage significant spend and contribute directly to cost optimization and performance improvement within the organization.

Sourcing & Contract Management

• Execute Sourcing: Apply sourcing strategy or develop your own for categories not managed by a Category Manager. You'll launch eRFx to pre-selected suppliers, analyze offers using a TCO approach, and facilitate the supplier selection process with requesters.
• Negotiate & Contract: Prepare fact-based negotiations, define roles for Air Liquide stakeholders, select the final supplier, and negotiate supply contracts using pre validated templates from legal.
• Implementation & Compliance: Promote preferred suppliers and contracts to internal customers and track successful implementation and contractual compliance locally. Manage actively contract updates, including price updates, volume rebate collection or other changes required.

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

• Manage relationships with external suppliers, including defining supplier future strategies, conducting business reviews and auditing financial stability.
• Risk & Performance: Contribute to supplier performance evaluation and risk identification/mitigation to ensure compliance with the risk mapping.
• Qualification: Animate the supplier qualification and audit process in collaboration with Inspection teams, HSEQ, and Technical experts.

Stakeholder Management & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and manage relationships with internal customers (Business Lines, Functions).
• Consolidate their feedback on category strategies and supplier performance.
• Optimize Costs and create value: Lead working sessions with internal customers to identify TCO reduction opportunities and proactively organize workshops for further opportunities such as technical innovations and/or standardizations.
• Improve Processes: Identify opportunities for automating Purchase Orders (catalogs, Open PG etc.). Undertake corrective actions with suppliers and internal Clusters/Functions to improve performance and contract compliance including claim and non conformity management.
• Reporting Consolidate and present sourcing action plans to the management. Reporting and consolidating efficiency projects and ambition, using SRS savings project reporting tool. Make sure the claim database is updated and claims are managed #LI-MC1

Background Work Experience

3/5 years experience in Procurement or a talented graduate with first relevant working experience gained and proven through internship

Education

A degree in an adequate discipline (e.g. Business or technical)

Language

Must be fluent in English and have very good knowledge of French.

Key Expertise

• Strategic planning and strategic sourcing.
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), including financial analyses.
• Cost management and techniques like Functional & Value Analysis (re)-design to cost.
• Industry expertise in relevant manufacturing company environment.
• Management & Behavior Skills.
• Results oriented and commercially smart.
• Analytical skills and IT savvy (AI Gemini, Google…).
• Highly influential with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strategic thinker with good prioritization and decision-making skills.
• Able to work under pressure, with high reactivity and pro-activity.
• A team player focused on Internal Customer Orientation.