Company Description
Eurofins NSC Ireland is a shared service center supporting all Irish Eurofins entities by managing key functions such as accounting, payroll, and purchasing. Our office is located in Dungarvan, and we follow a hybrid working model, requiring team members to be on-site for a minimum of two days per week.
As part of the larger Eurofins network, which operates over 900 laboratories in more than 50 countries, we are committed to delivering high-quality services that support the company’s global mission of providing world-class laboratory testing services across a wide range of industries.
In 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR €6,515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
Job Description
Main Duties/ Responsibilities:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
* The Purchasing specialist will work with Local Procurement, Global Procurement, and different laboratories (Business Units) based across Ireland.
* Key member of Ireland Procurement team, this person will play an integral role ensuring cross functional collaboration and execution of Purchasing function objectives.
* Work closely and partner with all Business Units and support multidisciplinary teams to ensure targets are achieved in line with business targets and objectives.
Supplier Relationship Management:
* Develop and manage supplier base to expand business, improve savings, improve quality, customer relations and on-time deliveries.
* Identify and suggest potential vendors to respective Eurofins business units.
* Manage contracts, including settling disputes and ensuring that a supplier meets expectations.
Sourcing:
* Leads or supports sourcing initiatives to identify the right supplier partners and build adequate material capacities to support business.
* Develops spend analysis and gathers market intelligence in alignment with business goals.
* Helps business decision making to deliver ongoing value improvements and drive competitive advantage.
Contracting:
* Uses procurement expertise and global business understanding to lead negotiations and execution of contracts.
* Liaise directly with Supplier for Negotiating various contracts with vendors on quality, price, and delivery.
* Mitigates business risk through the understanding of commercial, legal, and regulatory requirements.
Category Strategy Development:
* Work with Strategic sourcing to renegotiate prices/contracts with local suppliers, where possible, to ensure the best quality service and costs for Eurofins Ireland.
* Support category sourcing strategy for defined portfolio through business need assessment, Market intelligence, Supplier evaluations and sourcing choices.
* Proactively engages business partners and category managers to identify buying channels and contracting strategies.
Support responsibilities:
* Data analysis and support for purchasing projects (supplier master files, item pricing files, price agreements, contracts, quarterly reporting of KPI’s savings reporting).
* Efficient delivery of purchasing system and practices in existing businesses and new business acquisitions.
* Prepare and update reports, records, and pricing lists.
* Ensure compliance with relevant policies, procedures, and regulations.
* Being the face for internal business users to manage all purchasing related aspects - System and process implementation, training users, Creating RFQs, Supplier onboarding, Purchase Order (PO) release and resolving supplier invoice discrepancies.
* Supporting P2P process to ensure all process and checks are followed.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
* Master’s Degree in appropriate Technical or Business discipline, preferably in Supply chain.
* 1-3 years of related work experience of working in a purchasing role or other commercial capacity.
* Demonstrated skills in sourcing, procurement, and Supplier management, preferably in Purchasing environment, would be preferred.
* A customer focused approach to align with business priorities and meet the business needs.
* Ability to engage, interact and negotiate value enhancing relationships with suppliers.
* Good communication skills, both verbal and written are required.
IT Proficiency:
* SAP - SCM systems, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Ariba
* Coupa – Procurement module
* Similar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system
* Power BI
* Microsoft office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
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