Senior Group Purchasing Process Specialist - Temporary Contract

Eurofins; Katowice; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Eurofins is seeking a Senior Group Purchasing Process Specialist for a Temporary Contract in Katowice. The role focuses on driving global and local purchasing initiatives, owning complex projects, and delivering cost-effective, timely results within a multinational procurement setting.

You will conduct in-depth cost and savings analyses, lead category strategy implementation, and mentor junior team members to raise project management standards.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Experience in global, multinational procurement environments.
• Process-oriented with ability to handle complex global organizations.
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Develop purchasing strategies.
• Deploy and improve procurement processes and tools.
• Manage transformation projects and timelines.
• Coordinate suppliers and stakeholders.
• Monitor budgets and project progress.
• Identify process improvements.
• Conduct supplier and market research.
• Collaborate with internal teams.
• Maintain procurement records and KPIs.
• Resolve procurement issues and ensure compliance.

Skills

Communication

English fluency

Stakeholder mgmt

Analytical skills

Procurement experience

Global procurement

Project management

Job description

Senior Group Purchasing Process Specialist - Temporary Contract

Full-time

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.

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

• Developing purchasing strategies.
• Deploying and improving procurement processes and tools.
• Managing transformation projects and timelines.
• Coordinating suppliers and stakeholders.
• Monitoring budgets and project progress.
• Identifying process improvements.
• Conducting supplier and market research.
• Collaborating with internal teams.
• Maintaining procurement records and KPIs.
• Resolving procurement issues.Ensuring policy and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience in global, multinational procurement environments.
• Process-oriented with experience in complex global organizations.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Able to perform effectively under pressure, tight deadlines, and uncertainty.
• Skilled at managing multiple projects in fast-paced environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Customer-focused, proactive, and solution-oriented.
• Culturally aware with a proactive mindset.
• Strong analytical skills.

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.

Weembracediversity!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 59 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 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.

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