Purchasing Director

Eurofins Scientific is looking for a Purchasing Director, who will work in a fast growing organisation and a multinational environment. 

The responsibilities of the Purchasing Director will be to:

• Lead a team of Category Managers & Buyers (approx.. 30 FTE) to drive Savings, across all Direct and indirect categories, with a focus on bottom line impact and Savings in Consumables
• Reporting directly to the Head of Purchasing, Legal, Risk management and Insurance
• Manage a set of local Purchasing Leaders in the countries
• Set targets for the Purchasing Managers in the regions, manage their priorities, train them and unblock issues
• Be part of the Purchasing Lead Team to drive the future of the organization and priorities
• Identify projects for cost optimization through effective spend data analysis
• Conduct negotiations with the biggest suppliers in the Countries
• Personally manage the biggest Savings projects for the regions and for the Division
• Ensure effective supplier selection, vendor management and global tendering processes
• Draft and review purchasing contracts in line with business objectives
• Complete the team by recruiting new talent into Eurofins
• Further expand the use of Coupa, the Group Purchase to Pay tool
• Define and implement standard buying processes, leveraging Coupa
• Learn about Eurofins specific processes, best-practices, systems and tools and implement them to the regions in scope
• Drive Coupa adoption and PO compliance in the Regions

Communicate results to Division Leadership