Hybrid Senior Strategic Sourcing & Negotiation Specialist

Eurofins USA•Leola, PA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company providing a unique range of analytical testing services. As a Senior Sourcing Specialist, your primary responsibility will be to support the NSC Procurement Department for the North America-based Eurofins companies. You will typically report into one of the Category Managers and refine processes as well as execute new category strategies as they pertain to current projects. Eurofins is searching for a candidate that possesses strong analytical skills, end-to-end ownership of categories, and the ability to lead negotiations with suppliers to achieve significant cost savings while maintaining or improving quality and delivery times. This role involves managing relationships with stakeholders up to ELE Presidents, influencing change management, conducting market research, and preparing reports and presentations for management. The position also requires integrating organizational measures like supplier diversity and sustainability into the sourcing process. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, performance-driven, adaptable, and capable of working autonomously. Additional responsibilities include managing supplier selection, RFP processes, contracting, and supplier performance, building a strong knowledge base for assigned categories, and acting as a Purchasing Business Partner for specific Legal Entities. The role also involves reviewing Purchase Order requisitions in Coupa and managing e-catalogue and pricing within the procurement tool.

Requirements

Minimum of 3-4+ years of Purchasing and Negotiation experience.
Experience working in Excel and use of pivot tables, standard excel functions.
Exceptional interpersonal skills and excellent written and oral communication
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship.
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain or Sciences (or related field) preferred

Nice To Haves

Background in the construction industry, preferred
Experience with Coupa Source-to-Pay is an asset but not mandatory.
Coach or train Sourcing Specialists and Associates

Responsibilities

Full end-to-end ownership of categories in scope, including project identification, sourcing leadership, and prioritization in alignment with the Category Manager.
Responsible for managing the savings plan to deliver significant value.
Lead and integrate assigned portfolio of spend related to M&A activities.
Building a project pipeline, leading the sourcing process (RFI and RFQ) with the support of technical experts, including negotiations with suppliers.
Obtain significant cost savings in your Categories of scope/Projects for Eurofins companies with increasing level of quality and lower delivery time.
Managing relationship with stakeholders up to ELE Presidents and effectively collaborate with key stakeholders to understand the laboratory business requirements, align on goals and drive sourcing initiatives.
Influence and lead the change management (including set-up of test plans) to ensure sourcing practices, processes and tools are adopted across the organization.
Research (social media, websites, etc) to gain market information, cost and risk management assessments.
Sound analytical skills and use of Excel to conduct both executive and detailed level spend analysis, analyzing trends, ability to link and leverage spend and find savings opportunities.
Preparing reports and presentations for management and communicating key insights to stakeholders.
Integrating organizational measures like supplier diversity, sustainability, cash flow improvement, automation, digitization etc into the process of the scope managed
Leading negotiations with suppliers across a spectrum of complexity, from straightforward agreements to intricate, multi-faceted contract, often collaborating with supplier leadership.
Knowledge of legal and contractual issues and negotiating contracts
Organize priorities and projects with the ability to adapt to Purchasing department/customer/business needs.
Self-motivation, performance driven mind-set to identify priorities and deliver within agreed deadlines.
Being agile and adaptable to Eurofins and team needs, which may include potential assignment of new goals and adjustments in roles and responsibilities within the Purchasing team.
Managing supplier selection, RFP process, negotiation, contracting and supplier performance processes.
Creating a strong knowledge and intelligence base for assigned categories, market dynamics and suppliers relevant to the business.
Strong resilience and ability to work under pressure in a multi-tasking and multi-priority environment to manage both operational and ‘value driven’ purchasing.
Ensuring the administration, implementation, compliance, and enforcement of national commodity and contracting strategies
Driving sourcing process alignment through project management including compliance regarding scope, timeline, deliverables, total cost of ownership, quality, and budget.
The ability to lead negotiations for multi-site group contracts and extract cost savings.
Building relationships with external suppliers
Acting as Purchasing Business Partner for a few Legal Entities and being the single point of contract for internal stakeholders
Various reporting as defined in team’s processes or as defined by the manager.
Reviewing Purchase Order requisitions in Coupa and ensuring best value sourcing for the scope managed
Robust e-catalogue and pricing management in the procurement tool including making regular checks for compliance.
Leading and integrating assigned portfolio of spend related to post-acquisition activity.
Leading both sourcing and operational scope in purchasing.