Job Description
Company 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.
Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.
Job Description
As an IT Senior Group Buyer, you will drive global procurement projects across Eurofins’ decentralized structure. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders from Group Top Management to optimize sourcing strategies, negotiate commercial terms, and deliver cost-effective solutions for IT products and services. This role offers autonomy, strategic influence, and the opportunity to shape category strategy in a dynamic, multinational environment.
Have passion for results and looking for excellent growth? Join us.
As a Senior Group Buyer, your daily responsibilities are:
- Define and manage category scope in collaboration with the Procurement Team.
- Lead end-to-end sourcing processes and identify new supplier opportunities.
- Develop and present procurement strategies aligned with project goals.
- Negotiate commercial terms and maintain supplier agreements.
- Prepare RFPs, draft contracts, and deliver actionable business recommendations.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement in procurement practices.
- Utilize procurement systems such as Coupa to manage workflows.
- Achieve KPIs and support strategic procurement projects.
Qualifications
- Proven track record in global strategic procurement and negotiation.
- Experience in category management and strategy development within Procurement Teams.
- Skilled in supplier identification, contract drafting, and sourcing execution.
- Ability to develop procurement strategies that meet project goals on time and within budget.
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.
- Proficient in preparing RFPs, structuring specifications, and using tools like Coupa.
- Expertise in managing commercial agreements and delivering on KPIs.
- Analytical mindset focused on process optimization and risk mitigation.
- Experience working in multinational environments with independent entities.
Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Administration, Finance, or Engineering.
Additional Information
- Annual bonus.
- Private health insurance - Luxmed.
- Mybenefit platform.
- Life insurance - Unum.
- Hybrid work model (3 days from office).
We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. 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 on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/
Company 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 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.
In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
