Senior Group Purchasing Process Specialist - Temporary Contract

Eurofins · Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-09-14
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job description

Job Description
Eurofins is seeking a proactive and analytical specialist to drive both global and local initiatives within our purchasing organization. In this role, you’ll take ownership of complex projects, ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations while delivering results that are cost-effective and timely.
You’ll perform in-depth cost and savings analyses to empower strategic decisions, lead category strategy implementation, and mentor junior team members to elevate project management standards. With significant autonomy, you’ll provide actionable insights to senior management, champion process improvements, and demonstrate a strong commitment to learning and growth. This is your chance to make a tangible impact and shape the future of procurement.
Key Objectives:

• Leads the development and implementation of purchasing strategies for various projects

• Deployment of new processes and associated tools, defining and running change management and communication plans, training end users, etc.;

• Monitoring and continuous improvement of newly deployed processes and associated tools.

• Establishing process transformation projects, defining objectives, deliverables, and agreeing associated timelines with stakeholders;

• Coordinate with suppliers, internal stakeholders and team timely delivery of project outcomes.

• Monitor and track project budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness and adherence to financial guidelines.

• Provide regular status updates to Manager and stakeholders within the group.

• Diagnose of current processes, strengths and weaknesses, identifying pain points and key areas of improvements;

• Conduct market research to identify potential suppliers and evaluate their capabilities.

• Collaborate with internal departments to understand project requirements and timelines.

• Maintain accurate records of procurement activities and support Purchasing Team KPIs delivery

• Assist in resolving any issues or discrepancies related to procurement.

• Support the Purchasing Manager in deployment of new processes and associated tools, defining and running change management and communication plans, training end users, etc.;

• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and company policies.

Qualifications
• Advanced personal skills.

• A proven record working in a global, multinational, strategic procurement environment.

• Process oriented in global company with independent entities.

• Excellent written and spoken English.

• The ability to operate effectively in an environment with tight deadlines and finite resource and uncertainty.

• The ability to achieve the ends in quickly changing business environment.

• The ability to handle multiply projects at the same time with some uncertain requirements.

• Good stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage with, and influence, internal and external stakeholders.

• Out of the box thinking.

• Strong customer service orientation and problem-solving skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Cultural awareness and pro-active behavior.

• Strong analytical skills, Visionary, Self-esteem.

Additional Information
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

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