Senior Category Leader

**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.

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for procurement and team development? Eurofins is looking for an experienced professional to** drive the global purchasing strategy for consumables** across the Clinical Diagnostic business line. In this role, you will lead a team of Category Managers, manage supplier relationships, and deliver financial performance. With a focus on continuous improvement, you will shape procurement excellence and support Eurofins’ ambitious growth. If you’re ready to make a global impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Here is a more detailed view of your responsibilities:

- Define, lead, and implement the purchasing strategy across all consumables categories for the Group.
- Manage a team of Category Managers and Purchasing Analysts, working closely with country-level purchasing teams and key internal stakeholders.
- Monitor the progress of all planned projects and lead corrective actions when necessary.
- Recruit, develop, and promote talent to strengthen the team in line with the Group’s targets and growth objectives.
- Build and manage strategic category plans, including risk management, to ensure achievement of financial goals (P&L and cash flow).
- Lead global supplier sourcing activities, including RFI and RFP processes.
- Identify and implement cost leverage opportunities, best practices, and innovations within a continuous improvement and total cost of ownership (TCO) approach.
- Manage supplier issues and lead corrective actions to resolve quality or service level agreement (SLA) deviations.
- Track and report on all KPIs, communicate performance, and initiate appropriate actions if targets are not met.
- Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationship management (SRM) and foster key supplier partnerships.
- Support ESG initiatives in alignment with Eurofins Group ESG targets.
- Oversee and track the integration of acquired laboratories, maximizing synergies across procurement functions.
- Evaluate the benefits of new tools and define new processes to enhance efficiency and performance.

**Qualifications**
- Educational background in Business, Finance, or Engineering; MBA-level education preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in procurement, including:

- Leading global sourcing projects within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Managing and developing teams of at least five skilled professionals.
- Fluent in English, with excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and projects, set priorities effectively, and operate in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and work with complex data sets.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.
- Experience with Procure-to-Pay (PtP) tools such as Coupa or Ariba.

**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

**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