VIE Junior Buyer (FMD)

Air Liquide is a world leader in gases technologies and services for industry health and the environment. Our company offers innovative solutions based on continuously improving technologies. We produce air gases such as oxygen nitrogen argon and specialty gases but also other gas solutions such as hydrogen. Our 64500 employees work for our customers in 78 countries. Dynamic and creative. Innovative and lively.

Under the management of the Direct Category Manager Material &Technical Services in charge of the Europe Procurement strategy the Junior Buyers contributions will be the following:

- Analysis of new procurement categories in order to identify synergies at European level
- Cross-functional management of Standardisation/design to cost/Total Cost of Ownership projects optimisation of the CDC in conjunction with the technical team with a view to reducing costs as far as possible.
- Participation in the definition of the categorys strategic orientations
- Contribution to the launch of calls for tender analysis and negotiations with the suppliers on the panel
- Implement and monitor action plans with European subsidiaries
- Development of tools KPI PowerBI iAnalyse and/or Excel reports

Are you a MATCH

Education

Masters Degree in Engineering or Business school
Specialization in Procurement will be appreciated
Soft and Hard Skills Must have:
Affinity for numbers (spend/cost analysis) and negotiation
Project management
Excellent analytical and synthesis skills
Mastery of the MS Office/Google package particularly Excel
Curiosity
Dynamism and creativity
Communication
Ability to make proposals
Open-mindedness
Autonomy

Languages

English fluency is Must have
German is Nice to have

Why Join Us
You will be able to learn more about Category Management at European Level. This will be the occasion to develop your competencies in Strategy Definition and implementation Negotiation Contracting Supplier relationship and Risk Management Supplier performance animation (safety cost quality delivery innovation)

Additional information
Please send your CV and motivation letter in English!

Position open only for candidates eligible to the VIE program. Therefore only the applicants meeting the requirements of the French V.I.E program will be taken into consideration. Please visit this website for more information about these requirements:

The V.I.E. an international young graduate program enables young professionals who are less than 28 and European Union nationals to work for a French company in any country of the world. Becoming part of this program means going abroad to carry out a professional assignment for up to 24 months whilst benefiting from social care coverage and an interesting salary which depends on the host country.

Business France the French agency for international business development is in charge of all the administrative procedures of your assignment. For further information please visit the following link:

What makes us special Our Benefits

The European Procurement Organization is responsible for managing purchasing and monitoring Europe Industries efficiency projects for the entire European terms of Purchasing his priorities are in addition to generating new savings developing the relationship and partnership with our strategic suppliers promoting the total cost of ownership - TCO approach to our operations the best taken into account in our decision-making processes our make or buy strategy and finally the development of innovation by taking better advantage of the supplier ecosystem.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees our customers patients community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.