VIE - Strategic Purchasing Analyst (F/M/D)

Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions Germany GmbH is a preferred technology partner for the global planning, design and construction of state‑of‑the‑art process plants and related infrastructure. We enable our customers to optimize the use of our planet's natural resources to deliver clean and sustainable energy through our people and their ability to continuously innovate. Through the pioneering development of our proprietary technologies, we contribute to the transformation of the energy industry, helping to preserve and protect our planet's atmosphere.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The Procurement team is located in Charenton, France; Frankfurt, Germany and Krakow, Poland, with a total team size of ~100 employees. The scope covered includes Project Procurement Management, Project Procurement, Category Procurement, Expediting, Supplier Quality Control, Logistics, Spare Parts, Services as well as Indirect Procurement. It is a diverse team in terms of gender and nationality. Currently we have German, Polish, French, Dutch, Chinese and Indian team members. Team members travel frequently between the 3 locations, as we are operating as one business center.

Your main responsabilities will be :

Support in Category Management :

• Assist manager in the development of roadmap and support centers for deployment of Category Management strategies ;
• Conduct activities in close relationship (team approach) with technical counterparts, in order to ensure that the procurement strategies are aligned with the engineering discipline strategies and vice versa ;
• Develop and prepare various business reports on category spend volume, savings generated and supplier financial analysis to support category strategies ;
• Facilitate periodic business reviews with key suppliers and facilitate action items that result from the meetings.

Cost and competitiveness intelligence :

• Prepare Benchmark with associated tools to support the Global and local Category Management (GCM) to predict quickly a budget without the need to issue an Invitation to Bid (ITB) ;
• Support Global Procurement team to structure and define the procured equipment and service cost structure breakdown ;
• Leverage on the AI capabilities to accelerate the deployment of new databases within the different categories ;
• Maintain the News database.

Operational Purchasing :

• Formalizing NDA with Vendors ;
• Issue Project and Strategic RFQs ;
• Bid Comparison table to be established and analysis to be done ;
• Qualification of non-critical suppliers.

Master's degree in engineering or management.

Required Qualifications :

• Strong analytical skills ;
• Very good communication and presentation skills ;
• Good team worker.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Strong result orientation ;
• Strong ability to argue persuasively.

Languages :

• German, French or Polish is a plus.

Additional information

Please send your CV and motivation letter in English!

Position open only for candidates eligible to the VIE program. Therefore, only the applicants meeting the requirements of the French V.I.E program will be taken into consideration. Please visit this website for more information about these requirements:

The V.I.E., an international young graduate program, enables young professionals who are less than 28 and European Union nationals to work for a French company in any country of the world. Becoming part of this program means going abroad to carry out a professional assignment for up to 24 months whilst benefiting from social care coverage and an interesting salary, which depends on the host country.

Business France, the French agency for international business development, is in charge of all the administrative procedures of your assignment. For further information, please visit the following link: