Strategic Procurement controller

Sourcing Tomorrow’s Success

Entity description

Founded in 2011 by Deutsche Telekom and Orange, BuyIn delivers strategic procurement services combining ~20 billion euros of annual spend. This leads to sustainable economies of scale and savings based on analytics and benchmarks across more than a million price points in 40+ markets.

By prioritizing environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and ethical business practices, our company is committed to building a sustainable future for both our business and the planet.

Description of domain/function:

BuyIn Strategic Procurement controller is in charge of Strategic Finance projects, as well as coordination, production of central procurement controlling & reporting.

Your responsibilities

• Owner of strategic Finance projects

• Ensure harmonized approaches across all controlling domains

• Identifies the improvement potential for procurement in terms of savings and scaling

• Relationship with Shareholders (Orange & DT) related to savings / reporting and Sourcing Reviews

• Provide reporting & answer to requests from shareholders for their sourcing improvement project (Proceed & Phenix)

• Responsible for every controlling overarching topic within Buyin

• As PMO of controlling, coordinate projects for Procurement Controlling

• Manage corporate targets : definition, processes, achievement steering (e.g. TCO savings, scale)

• In charge of Business development, business cases

• Active contributor of Governance and companywide documents: Finance committee, BoD, RemCo, all Hands call…

• Ad hoc analysis: inflation, performance monthly/quarterly, Risk Taskforce, Supplier Risk Management

• Central contact for BuyIn PMOs (D) (e.g. top project lists)

• Finance SPOC for Demand Plan Process

• Proactively propose relevant adaptations to improve controlling efficiency, standardization of practices, and contribute to digitization and automation with use of innovant tools notably AI
  

Your profile

A professional with at least 10 years of experience in Finance/Consultancy with:

• 10+ years professional experience with profound knowledge of controlling, preferably in procurement organizations and processes

• Capacity to create slides for higher management with storytelling making figures and ideas speak to enhance decision making

• Capacity to identify issues, propose remediation, anticipate and analyse proactively

• Analytical and modelling capabilities

• Data warehouse manipulation, solid excel skills

• Oral and written communication, synthesis capabilities: ability to present complex subjects in easy to understand manner to high level management

• Excellent interpersonal skills & ability to drive transversal team

• Results oriented and pragmatic, holistic business understanding

Languages

• Your English language skills are business fluent in spoken and written to be able to work in an international scope.
  

WHY JOINING BUYIN

• A “human sized” company, composed of a talented team of 30+ nationalities empowering the workplace with values of Teamwork, Commitment and Respect

• Flexible working conditions (hybrid working, working from abroad) and time

• Multiple locations in France and Germany

• Competitive package

• Dynamic international team

• Continuous training: our Procurement Academy will support your learning journey

• Cutting-edge procurement with topics on AI, IoT, and Sustainability

• Exciting, multifaceted projects for our mother companies (Orange & Deutsche Telekom) & partners

• 10+ years of track record of excellence in strategic procurement with a spend over €20 million for 45+ customers

• Or even the usage of BI and IA tools to support you in your daily sourcing activities.

Diversity is a part of BuyIn We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation, or identity.