Senior Strategic Buyer

I-care Group; Henegouwen; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Smart-target bonus

Company car with fuel card

Cafeteria Plan

Group & hospitalization insurance

Meal vouchers

Net allowances (mobile, internet)

Résumé du poste

I-care Group is seeking a Senior Strategic Buyer to professionalize and centralize our procurement activities across the group. You will translate business objectives into a data-driven strategy, manage a broad international portfolio, and take full savings ownership for annual targets including cost avoidance and TCO reduction.

You will partner with the CFO to deliver value while maintaining quality and delivery reliability, driving group-wide centralization and synergies across borders in a

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years in a strategic procurement role.
• Experience in multi-entity international corporate structures is a strong asset.
• Fluent in French and English (C1) required.

Responsabilités

• Consolidate procurement across borders and deploy a unified group strategy.
• Lead spend governance, standardization, and supplier policy across entities.
• Negotiate pricing, framework agreements, and working capital terms.
• Centralize vendor databases and optimize supplier performance internationally.

Connaissances

Commercial drive

Analytical thinking

Strategic mindset

Change management

Negotiation

Description du poste

I-care is the global leader in predictive and prescriptive maintenance. Our AI-powered and data driven condition monitoring solutions predict industrial failures before anyone else. With our innovative methods, products and services, we take care of over 500.000 of assets and processes of clients around the world, helping them reduce risks for safer, more efficient, and more sustainable manufacturing. Founded in 2004 and based in Belgium, I-care employs over 1000 people and has offices in more than 20 countries (Europe, USA, and Asia). It was named Business of the Year 2020.

About the Role

As a Senior Strategic Buyer, you will play a key role in professionalizing and centralizing our procurement activities. As our organization grows internationally across multiple entities, your challenge will be to capture synergies by consolidating purchasing requirements and deploying a unified procurement strategy. You will coordinate procurement across borders, actively challenging local purchasing practices whenever group-level leverage can create greater value.

Working closely with the CFO, you will translate business objectives into a data-driven procurement strategy. You will manage a broad, diverse portfolio with a clear goal: achieving continuous annual cost reductions. You will take full savings ownership, defining and tracking annual targets that encompass cost avoidance, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction, and realized P&L savings without compromising quality or delivery reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Procurement Governance & Spend Analytics

• Spend Analytics: Establish and maintain group-wide spend visibility by supplier, category, and entity to uncover new consolidation and synergy opportunities.
• Governance & Standardization: Implement common purchasing policies, standardized approval processes, preferred-supplier lists, and uniform sourcing standards across all international entities.

Strategic Procurement & Category Management

• Indirect Spend: Take full ownership of the procurement strategy for a broad portfolio of facilities, operational, and technical goods and services (including IT, fleet, HSE, maintenance, and workplace equipment). Analyze the market, select suitable partners, and establish robust fallback scenarios.
• Direct Spend: For production procurement, focus on relationship management and commercial optimization within the existing supplier pool to maximize value creation and supply chain efficiency.

Contract Management, Negotiation & Working Capital

• Lead complex negotiations regarding pricing, framework agreements, and conditions. Crucially, you will make working capital, payment terms, and overall cash impact an explicit negotiation objective alongside price.
• Ensure strict follow-up on agreements and guarantee that contractual terms and negotiated discounts are accurately reflected in invoicing (contract compliance).

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) & International Optimization

• Centralize group vendor databases, nurture strategic partnerships, and execute vendor rationalization to mitigate supplier risk.
• Monitor performance metrics and optimize import/customs processes to support ongoing international expansion.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• You will drive continuous improvement and measure success through the following core metrics:
• Savings realization (P&L impact & cost avoidance)
• Optimization of payment terms & working capital

Profile & Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of proven experience in a strategic procurement role. Experience operating within a complex, multi-entity international corporate structure is a strong asset.
• Commercial Drive: Strong negotiator with deep commercial insight focused on delivering measurable financial results and TCO reduction.
• Analytical & Strategic Mindset: Ability to analyze large datasets quickly, separate main priorities from minor issues, and act based on strategic impact.
• Change Management & Hands-on Attitude: Capable of challenging the status quo across local entities while remaining comfortable moving between executive strategic discussions and operational execution.
• Language Skills: Mandatory proficiency in French and advanced proficiency in English (C1 level). Knowledge of any additional languages is considered a strong plus.

What we offer

• Impact & Strategic Ownership: Full autonomy to pioneer, shape, and direct the entire procurement function from the ground up - co-defining strategy, setting priorities, and driving group-wide centralization.
• Innovative Environment: Exposure to cutting-edge Industry 4.0 and remote asset monitoring technologies in an international setting, backed by tailored coaching from senior engineers.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Competitive base salary paired with an attractive SMART-target bonus, company car with fuel card, Cafeteria Plan, group & hospitalization insurance, meal vouchers, net allowances (mobile, internet, daily expense), and extra vacation days (ADV & seniority leave).