Impact: You deliver commercial impact by anchoring cost and developing a resilience pipeline of projects, in addition to securing our sustainability priorities. Specifically, you are accountable for:
Strategy & Annual Pipeline: Collating market intelligence, supplier data, and business requirements to formulate a formalized, global Category Strategy and initiative pipeline, to be aligned with leaders across the organization.
Commercial Negotiations: Leading high-value commercial and contractual negotiations for strategic suppliers within the category
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Ensure category strategies are aligned with R&D, Operations, Quality and Supply Chain stakeholders globally.
Identify, evaluate, and qualify mechanical component suppliers, including those with in-house engineering, machining, sheet metal, assembly and surface treatment capabilities.
Lead and manage RFQ/RFI/RFP processes, ensuring technical and commercial comparability of offers in close collaboration with Engineering and Quality.
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S2P Transformation, Automation & AI will lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale technology solutions across the end-to-end Source-to-Pay ecosystem. This role combines deep Finance domain expertise spanning Procurement, Supplier Management, Accounts Payable, and Payments with enterprise architecture, intelligent automation, AI, and integration capabilities. The individual will drive Finance transformation through SAP, Ariba, UiPath, Microsoft Power Platform, Agentic AI, and enterprise integration technologies while partnering with Finance, Procurement, Shared Services, IT, and implementation teams to modernize business operations through intelligent automation, AI-enabled decision making, and scalable digital platforms.
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Set clear goals, objectives, and KPIs to drive high performance across the entire lifecycle—from new equipment purchases to spare parts and maintenance services.
Build strategic, sustainable partnerships with key suppliers to promote innovative solutions and leverage buying power.
Act as a bridge between internal engineering and business leaders to promote a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach and ensure compliance with the Air Liquide code of conduct.
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Build strategic, sustainable partnerships with key suppliers to promote innovative solutions and leverage buying power.
Act as a bridge between internal engineering and business leaders to promote a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach and ensure compliance with the Air Liquide code of conduct.
Act as the primary escalation point for your category, resolving issues and negotiating strategic contracts to reduce costs and improve safety.
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Develop and share a comprehensive vision for your categories, defining short, mid, and long-term approaches in collaboration with key stakeholders.
Master the knowledge of market dynamics, including competitor movements and supplier ecosystems, to anticipate macro-economic shifts that influence strategy.
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Ensure category strategies are aligned with R&D, Operations, Quality and Supply Chain stakeholders globally.
Identify, evaluate, and qualify mechanical component suppliers, including those with in-house engineering, machining, sheet metal, assembly and surface treatment capabilities.
Lead and manage RFQ/RFI/RFP processes, ensuring technical and commercial comparability of offers in close collaboration with Engineering and Quality.
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Executing the Source-to-Contract process including respective strategies, approaches and methods: preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations. Adapting tactics from a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business and Procurement objectives.
Analyzing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification confidently. Conveying messages clearly and convincing stakeholders.
Manage capability centers for the domain & act as an escalation point.
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