Global Category Lead (M/F)

Eurofins is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 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 its companies around the world.

​​​​​​Shape the Future of Global Procurement at Eurofins!

Are you ready to make a real impact on a global scale? Eurofins is searching for a strategic, results‑driven Global Category Lead to take charge of the purchasing subcategory and develop a worldwide purchasing strategy.

This is your chance to drive innovation, deliver financial results, and influence sustainability initiatives across an international network.

In this role, you’ll shape a best‑in‑class procurement function. You’ll lead high‑impact global sourcing initiatives, deliver efficiencies that drive long‑term value and build strategic supplier relationships.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading assigned subcategory projects and supplier relationship management activities
• Provide global category management for a given range of Purchasing Categories.
• Develop strategic plans to deliver financial goals, incorporating current product/ services portfolio optimization in selected categories.
• Ensure effective supplier selection, vendors’ management, global tendering process with multiple vendors, negotiation and drafting of contracts in line with business objectives.
• Establish solid relationships with regional Purchasing Managers, key stakeholders and Business Units to select the most appropriate purchasing strategy.
• Negotiate & implement global master services agreements/contracts.
• Perform active market research for new products/ suppliers for selected categories.
• Identify and asses the opportunities for cost optimization through proposed actions and effective spend data analysis.
• Conduct suppliers’ benchmarking/ KPI assessment.
• Build up the scenarios for the most effective category management.

• University degree in Supply Management, Finance, Economics or equivalent directly related experience.
• Business Fluency in English with great presentation and communication skills.
• 5+ years of experience in purchasing/ procurement/ strategic sourcing/ Supply Chain area with an emphasis on international Category Management or on a similar position.
• 1 year with hands on people management of purchasing team.
• Excellent knowledge of direct categories or direct products
• Understanding and experience of working with a defined procurement process.
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks/projects and prioritize appropriately in a dynamic work environment.
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to work with complex data and information.
• Desktop/ PC proficiency including Microsoft Office, specifically: Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

We support your development! Do you feel like you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 6.95 billion revenues in FY 2024, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.