Procurement Specialist, French speaker (fixed term)

PerkinElmer; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Dental care

Life and disability insurance

MyBenefit Cafeteria system

Multisport Card

Social Fund Subsidies

Home Office allowance

Tuition reimbursement

Referral awards

Internal career development

Birthday/extra vacation days

Job summary

PerkinElmer in Krakow is seeking a Procurement Specialist with French to join the OneSource Team. The role is hybrid, based at Quattro Business Park, Krakow, on a fixed-term contract of about 15–18 months.

You will source, negotiate and manage service contracts, while improving profitability and customer satisfaction across the OneSource Enterprise portfolio. You’ll build strong supplier relationships, deploy RFPs, and leverage data to inform decisions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of procurement experience.
• Excellent French verbally and in writing.
• Proven negotiation skills with positive financial results.
• Experience deploying and awarding service contracts (RFP).
• Strong vendor/supplier communications and best practices.
• Cost effective services arrangements mindset.
• Independent worker with team collaboration.
• Strong communication, presentation and influencing skills.
• Confident and assertive demeanor.
• Analytical thinking and problem solving ability.
• Strong execution and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing of suppliers and supplier qualification.
• Procurement of service contracts supporting OneSource contracts and asset management.
• Developing, deploying and awarding supplier contracts and RFPs.
• Engage in supplier management to improve profitability and customer satisfaction.
• Identify service coverage for customers/equipment and expand our platform strategy.
• Manage supplier relationships and act as escalation path for issues.
• Work with suppliers and Quality to resolve quality issues.
• Conduct routine supplier meetings and maintain relationships.
• Use data to drive decisions and provide market feedback and supplier metrics.

Skills

French language

Negotiation skills

RFP knowledge

Vendor communications

Cost optimization

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Influencing skills

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Execution

Job description

We are looking for Procurement Specialist with French to join the OneSource Team in Krakow.

Hybrid working model, Krakow, Quattro Business Park (3days office)

It's a fixed term contract (~ 15-18 months)

Key Responsibilities

• Sourcing of suppliers and supplier qualification.
• Sourcing, negotiating, and procurement of service contracts in support of our OneSource Enterprise contracts and asset management portfolio.
• Developing, deploying and awarding supplier contracts and agreements (RFP).
• Engage in all aspects of supplier management with a focus on improving profitability and delivering customer satisfaction.
• Identifying appropriate service coverage for different customers or types of equipment and opportunities to expand our service platform strategy.
• Strategic Supplier Management - insuring good relationships with our supply base while acting as an escalation path for supplier issues across the OneSource Enterprise portfolio.
• Interacts closely with suppliers and Quality to resolve quality issues.
• Conduct routine supplier meetings to develop and maintain supplier relationship.
• Use data to drive decisions and provide market/competitive feedback while supporting the field organization and providing visibility and accessibility to supplier metrics, tools and processes.

Requirements

• Equivalent 3+ years of procurement experience.
• Excellent French language skills verbal and written.
• Must have a proven record of strong negotiation skills and buying strategies culminating in positive financial results.
• Thorough knowledge of developing, deploying and awarding service contracts (RFP).
• Deep understanding of vendor/supplier communications and best practices.
• Proven ability to ensure cost effective services arrangements.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work independently as well as within a team.
• Excellent motivational, communication (oral/written), presentation and influencing skills.
• Must possess confidence and assertiveness
• Excellent critical thinking/ analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong execution and follow through.

Key Competencies

Bias for Action

• Action-orientated - enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.
• Deliver results - can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very performance orientated; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

Customer focus

• Builds voice of the customer feedback into all strategies and plans. Considers impact of all actions on current and future customers, including regulatory bodies). Inculcates a culture of quality and customer excellence throughout the organization.

Composure

• Patience – tolerant with people and processes; listens and checks before acting; tries to understand the people and the data before making judgments and acting; waits for others to catch up for acting; sensitive to due process and proper pacing.

Interpersonal Savvy

• Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

Vision and Purpose

• Looking ahead – ability to look at the big picture and plan ahead.
• Vision – communicates a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose; takes things beyond today; talks about possibilities; is optimistic; creates mileposts and symbols to rally support behind the vision; makes the vision shareable by everyone; can inspire and motivate others

What we offer

• Private healthcare including dental care,
• Life and long-term disability insurance,
• MyBenefit Cafeteria system,
• Multisport Card,
• Social Fund Subsidies,
• Home Office allowance,
• Tuition reimbursement,
• Referral awards,
• Internal career development opportunities in multiple business areas,
• Day off to celebrate your birthday, and up to 3 additional days of vacation by length of service in the company.

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