Purchasing Excellence Project Leader

**Description de l'entreprise**
As the preferred partner for window and door automation, SOMFY is committed to inspiring new and better ways of living for all.

As a French, family-owned, and independent group, in continuous growth since our creation, we have been world leaders for 50 years and pioneers in home automation. Innovation continuously guides our work and guarantees the excellence of our solutions.

We are present in 58 countries, with eight production sites and 17 R&D centers. We are deeply committed to the well-being of our 7,000 employees, we promote their sustainable employability by promoting internal mobility and developing their skills. We foster diversity and inclusion by building on our strong corporate culture.
**Description du poste**
The Purchasing Organization is at the heart of our **company project “2030 Ambition”** that aligns all group towards one same ambition**:reinforce our performance, bring more value to our customers, invent the smart living, inspire and commit.**

More than 140 people in Europe, Asia and Africa compose Somfy Purchasing Department. To prepare and drive the function for our 2030 Ambition plan, this organization recruits.

**Within our Purchasing Excellence Organization, you will lead transformation projects that will boost the overall performance of the Purchasing Community and thrive the future trends of the function.**

On your projects, you will drive the excellence of the function.

Your will build, develop and capitalize the expertise on your field of activities. In more details:

- Define and deploy lean purchasing processes with associated indicators. Ensure their adoption within a plan, do, check, act mindset.
- Drive the digitalization of the processes and implement Information System tools accordingly. Use digitalization and data as levers and accelerators.
- Animate the Purchasing Academy to develop the Community competencies. Specify or build new training modules, train buyers on rules, processes, tools, methodology and modelling.
- Manage cost and carbon modelling activities to help optimizing prices and carbon footprint. Identify new opportunities.
- Drive audits at our suppliers’ plants to establish their cost structure

Some examples of transformation projects held by the Group Excellence Purchasing Direction:

- Purchasing process and procedures
- Commodity strategies
- KPI and reports
- New Information System scoping and implementation
- Suppliers risk management
- Development of a Purchasing policy regarding sustainability
- Purchasing competencies development, creation of a Purchasing Academy
- Contractualization framework & delegation of Authority
- Non-strategic purchase outsourcing
- Cost modelling program dashboard
- Implementation of company performance tool

Management:

- transversal: interaction with all purchasing community and business partners
- coordination with the 4 purchasing excellence project leaders in excellence and Cost Leadership teams

**Qualifications** Education / Work Experience**
- Master’s degree
- + 10 years of experience in a global Purchasing environment, ideally in the industry sector

**Technical / professional skills**
- Proven mastery of purchasing core processes
- Appetite for digitalization & data as value drivers. Experience in Purchasing Information System implementation would be a plus (SAP)
- Recognized experience in project management
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Excellent analytical skills. Ability to analyze and modelize industrial manufacturing processes

**Soft skills**
- You are a change leader, you are able to drive transformation and lead the teams
- You can animate, coordinate and develop a community in a multi-cultural environment (project excellence leaders, purchasing managers, operational teams, Business Partners)
- You are results and performance oriented, with a high spirit of cooperation.

**Informations supplémentaires**
- Permanent position based in Cluses
- Benefits: 13th month pay, bonus (Intéressement et Participation), work committee (CSE), sports class, company canteen, employee shareholdings, employee saving plans...
- Hybrid remote/ office
- Travels (max 30%)