Job Description

Company presentation
A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide\xe2\x80\x99s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company\xe2\x80\x99s activities since its creation in 1902.
Entity and activity description
Air Liquide\xe2\x80\x99s ambition is to be a leader in its industry, deliver long term performance and contribute to sustainability - with a strong commitment to climate change and energy transition at the heart of its strategy. The company\xe2\x80\x99s customer-centric transformation strategy aims at profitable, regular and responsible growth over the long term. It relies on operational excellence, selective investments, open innovation and a network organization implemented by the Group worldwide. Through the commitment and inventiveness of its people, Air Liquide leverages energy and environment transition, changes in healthcare and digitization, and delivers greater value to all its stakeholders. Air Liquide\xe2\x80\x99s revenue amounted to more than 20 billion euros in 2020. Air Liquide is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (compartment A) and belongs to the CAC 40, EURO STOXX 50 and FTSE4 Good indexes
Missions and Responsibilities
We are currently looking for an IT Procurement Sourcing Specialist who will work closely with IT Teams (Infrastructure and applications), provide IT Procurement support to the local IT teams both in infrastructure and applications projects. You will be the point of entry between teams in Europe and the Americas and be aware of ongoing or upcoming IT Projects to share information within the IT Procurement team. You will have to make sure that all sourcing projects are in line with the relevant category strategy at the time of the project sourcing strategy (Gate 1) ,solution and vendor recommendation (Gate 2). Managed categories are :

• Software
• Telecom
• End User Services (Devices, Managed Printing Services and Service Desk)
• Outsourcing (Infrastructure + Application Maintenance & Development)

Your challenge at Air Liquide

• Provides Sourcing support in IT Projects
• Works collaboratively with Americas Procurement Direction, Key IT Stakeholders and Americas Clusters.
• Meets with key IT key stakeholders routinely and proactively identifies sourcing and contract value opportunities.
• Leverages market intelligence from IT Global Procurement and Hub Americas to evaluate, negotiate, and manage annual price fluctuations.
• Partner with Legal to ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures, both internal and external, to Air Liquide.
• Manages contract life-cycle for main Agreements within the area of responsibility.
• Develop relationships with IT key customers to understand their service and implement strategies in alignment with IT to maximize savings.
• Participates in identifying IT emerging opportunities with the IT Key Stakeholders.
• Initiates/Organises and leads the negotiations with suppliers according to the desired objectives
• Captures list of IT projects to come on a monthly basis and makes sure that the IT Procurement needs are covered.

Competencies and Profile
Who we are looking for

• Education: Bachelor degree in Business/Engineering, or equivalent. A Master degree will be a plus.
• Experience : 8 to 10 years with a minimum of 5 Years in IT Procurement in an international company preferably and a 3 to 5 years experience in project management
• Knowledge: Financial Knowledge (Supplier financial analysis\xe2\x80\xa6) and a great communication skills (written and oral) in French and in English

Technical Skills:

• Strong IT Procurement, IT and Legal knowledge => Candidates will have to deeply detail their previous experience in negotiating and contractualization of SaaS, PaaS, AMD, Telecom (data and voice), Devices and IT Services...
• Strong knowledge of IT Supplier base
• Maturity in Project Management Methodology (PMO, Procurement Toolbox = sourcing methodology). Here again candidates will be requested to detail RFP Sourcing process experience in Telecom, licenses, SaaS, Cloud (PaaS, IaaS..), AMD, IT services, Devices, printing...
• Negotiation techniques. Ability to build and select the best compromise

Additional information
*** Thank you for your interest in Air Liquide. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted. For more information about our company, visit us online at www.airliquide.ca In accordance with our Accessibility Policy, disability accommodations can be provided at all stages of the recruitment process, provided candidates have made their needs known in advance.
Job Reference: CA05126