Purchasing Specialist

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.

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:

• 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 relationship with suppliers.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written are required.

 IT Proficiency:

SAP - SCM systems, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Ariba

Coupa – Procurement moule

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