Category Manager, Direct Purchasing – GIFT

Overview

• Lead tender processes for the category: understand requirements, identify value-analysis levers, define the supplier panel, evaluate offers, negotiate, make recommendations and select awards.
• Support service performance to accompany the business (quality, supply chain, etc.).
• Define and drive the supplier panel strategy: identify competent market players as an expert of the upstream value chain; set and uphold the appropriate level of requirements with suppliers; ensure continuous improvement of the panel’s overall performance.
• Contribute to the financial management of the category: budgets and estimates, including monitoring risks and opportunities.
• Pursue ongoing cost optimization and identify savings and productivity levers.
• Contribute to the overall performance of the procurement function (CSR/sustainability, robustness/resilience, procurement best practices, etc.).

Requirements

• You hold a Master’s degree (Bac+5) from a business school / IAE or an engineering school with a specialization in Purchasing, with initial experience, or you have significant experience in a similar role.
• You are proficient in English, project management, operational excellence (service and quality), and negotiation techniques.
• You have an analytical mindset combined with financial skills and problem‑solving / methodological abilities.
• You have basic contractual and legal knowledge.
• You are recognized for excellent verbal communication, the ability to challenge to optimize performance, being proactive and responsive, having a strategic vision and the capacity to deploy it, and teamwork spirit.

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Hard Skills

• negotiation techniques
• financial management
• cost optimization
• budgeting
• value-analysis
• supplier panel strategy
• service performance
• analytical skills
• problem-solving
• contractual knowledge

Soft Skills

• verbal communication
• proactive
• responsive
• strategic vision
• teamwork
• methodological abilities
• ability to challenge
• operational excellence

Certifications & Qualifications

• Master’s degree