Main Accountabilities
- Lead procurement transformation initiatives by developing and implementing strategies to enhance procurement effectiveness and efficiency.
- Develop project plans, including scope, timelines, resource allocation, and deliverables.
- Lead cross-functional project teams, establish project governance, and manage project execution to meet objectives and timelines.
Interactions with Internal stakeholders and external counterparts
- Work closely with project team to understand the project in a deeper and wider range, do not limit the knowledge to the procurement scope.
- Act as single point of contact between the Procurement activity and the Project Execution team; Support project team by aligning Procurement activities with project timelines
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders, such as senior management, procurement teams, and cross-functional departments, to align project goals and ensure stakeholder engagement and support, including HRBPs to align and support on change management.
Risk management
- Run and analyze material status reports and communicate risks and problem areas to Project Manager regularly.
- Monitor global market conditions and business drivers to maximize leverage and minimize risk.
- Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure project and procurement performance.
- Ensure the implementation of the procurement strategy to be used for the project portfolio, in collaboration with the category management leads and internal stakeholders
- Establish key performance indicators (qualitative and quantitative metrics to capture), report and evaluate the benefit and performance of procurement activities
- Accountable for the procurement performance related to the portfolio managed under the project.
- Is in charge of securing the availability, reliability and quality of goods and services purchased within project
Ethics
- Promote compliance with Air Liquide code of conduct, ensuring by personal example
- Coach Air Liquide staff to promote the adoption of an ethical business behaviour
1. Bacherlor's in Business / Engineering Degree or equivaent
2. Minimum 7 years of experience in Procurement / Project Management / Operations
3. Excellent negotiation and interpersonal skills
4. Knowledge and Know-how specific to the job
- Project Management (Transversal) (Must have)
- Performance & Process Management (Data, KPI & Digital Tools) (Must have)
- Financial Analysis (Transversal) (Should have)
- Capital project planning, implementation and management
- Functional & Value Analysis, (re)-design to cost techniques
- Cost management
- Category & Sourcing Strategy (Should have)
- Category & Market Expertise (Good to have)
- Negotiations & Contract Knowledge (Must have)
- Planification & Expediting (Should have)
5. Complementary Capabilities
- Thinking & Partnering strategically
- Influencing for Change
- Managing conflict
- Analysing and solving problems
Our Differences make our Performance
At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's in Business / Engineering Degree or equivalent
- Minimum 7 years of experience in Procurement / Project Management / Operations
- Excellent negotiation and interpersonal skills
- Project Management (Transversal)
- Performance & Process Management (Data, KPI & Digital Tools)
- Negotiations & Contract Knowledge
Air Liquide Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Air Liquide and has not been reviewed or approved by Air Liquide.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance and life coverage are broadly provided under a global common care baseline that includes inpatient and outpatient healthcare. Dental and vision coverage are present in many locations, and short-term disability provisions have been enhanced.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies provide at least 14 weeks of fully paid maternity leave globally and paid parental leave for non-birthing parents in the U.S. Childcare benefits are available in some countries as part of the package.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Annual incentive bonuses, performance bonuses for exceeding goals, and profit-sharing are integrated into the total rewards structure. Feedback suggests additional earning avenues like overtime can further augment pay in eligible roles.
Air Liquide Insights
What We Do
A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 75 countries with approximately 66,400 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902.
