Senior Category Leader - Clinical Testing

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for procurement and team development Eurofins is looking for an experienced professional to drive the global purchasing strategy for consumables across the Clinical Diagnostic business this role you will lead a team of Category Managers manage supplier relationships and deliver financial performance. With a focus on continuous improvement you will shape procurement excellence and support Eurofins ambitious growth. If youre ready to make a global impact wed love to hear from you.

Here is a more detailed view of your responsibilities:

• Define lead and implement the purchasing strategy across all consumables categories for the Group.

• Manage a team of Category Managers and Purchasing Analysts working closely with country-level purchasing teams and key internal stakeholders.

• Monitor the progress of all planned projects and lead corrective actions when necessary.

• Recruit develop and promote talent to strengthen the team in line with the Groups targets and growth objectives.

• Build and manage strategic category plans including risk management to ensure achievement of financial goals (P&L and cash flow).

• Lead global supplier sourcing activities including RFI and RFP processes.

• Identify and implement cost leverage opportunities best practices and innovations within a continuous improvement and total cost of ownership (TCO) approach.

• Manage supplier issues and lead corrective actions to resolve quality or service level agreement (SLA) deviations.

• Track and report on all KPIs communicate performance and initiate appropriate actions if targets are not met.

• Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationship management (SRM) and foster key supplier partnerships.

• Support ESG initiatives in alignment with Eurofins Group ESG targets.

• Oversee and track the integration of acquired laboratories maximizing synergies across procurement functions.

• Evaluate the benefits of new tools and define new processes to enhance efficiency and performance.

Qualifications :

• Educational background in Business Finance or Engineering; MBA-level education preferred.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in procurement including:

  • Leading global sourcing projects within complex multi-stakeholder environments.

  • Managing and developing teams of at least five skilled professionals.

• Fluent in English with excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and projects set priorities effectively and operate in a dynamic cross-functional environment.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and work with complex data sets.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office particularly Excel Word PowerPoint and Teams.

• Experience with Procure-to-Pay (PtP) tools such as Coupa or Ariba.

Additional Information :

We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100% of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

Weembracediversity!The Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity being anEqual Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression race nationality age religion sexual orientation disability and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025 through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: description:Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries to make life and our environment safer healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the water you drink to the medicines you rely on Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food environment pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology forensics advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics and in the support of clinical studies as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes France to ca. 62000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety identity composition authenticity origin traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2023 Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6515 million and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time