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Air Liquide

Industrial and medical gas provider

Direct Category Buyer

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeDüsseldorf, GermanyNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A successfully completed university or technical university degree in economics/business, engineering, or a comparable field.
  • Three to five years of professional experience in a comparable or cross-functional role.
  • Very good to advanced German and English language skills (Level 1–2) for confident communication in daily work.
  • Solid user knowledge of Google tools, SAP/WISE, and Power BI, plus basic knowledge of AI tools such as Gemini and NotebookLM.
  • A self-starting, independent, and solution-oriented working style to identify and implement improvement opportunities.
  • Willingness to critically question existing supplier-spend structures and take responsibility for initiatives with measurable impact on the company's profit and loss.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement new procurement and category strategies, including defining preferred suppliers.
  • Apply existing sourcing strategies and independently develop strategies for unsupported categories.
  • Identify potential suppliers, conduct request-for-information, request-for-proposal, and request-for-quotation processes, and facilitate supplier selection.
  • Critically review and optimize requirement specifications in close coordination with internal departments.
  • Analyze offers using a total-cost-of-ownership approach, conduct contract negotiations, and prepare business cases.
  • Enable internal stakeholders to implement contracts correctly in systems and monitor contract compliance.
  • Manage contracts operationally throughout their lifecycle, including price adjustments, bonus and discount agreements, and term extensions.
  • Quickly handle and resolve performance disruptions and incidents.
  • Conduct regular business reviews with key suppliers based on service-level agreements and key performance indicators.
  • Manage supplier qualification, audits, and risk analyses in collaboration with HSEQ, technical, and inspection teams.
  • Develop supplier relationships and promote innovation and continuous performance improvement.
  • Build and develop effective relationships with internal departments and business lines.
  • Communicate strategy decisions persuasively and ensure their sustained adoption across the company.
  • Consolidate user feedback and jointly develop total-cost-of-ownership reduction opportunities in feedback and optimization workshops.
  • Identify and implement process improvements, such as expanding catalogs and open purchase-order processes.
  • Report regularly on sourcing activities, action-plan progress, and savings achieved.
  • Conduct customer satisfaction surveys and initiate targeted corrective actions when targets are missed.

About the Company

Air Liquide

Industrial and medical gas provider

Air Liquide produces and supplies industrial and medical gases, such as oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, argon, and specialty gases, to manufacturers, healthcare providers, electronics, and energy companies. It operates through production plants, pipelines, cylinder networks, and on-site supply units, and it also designs and builds gas production and separation systems, including cryogenic air separation plants and large electrolyzers, via its engineering arm. Its Gas & Services business serves industry and healthcare and it is a major producer of hydrogen, investing in low-carbon hydrogen projects and electrolysis as part of industrial decarbonization. It serves the semiconductor industry and space programs as well. Its goal is to enable industrial decarbonization and the energy transition by providing reliable gases and engineering capabilities for large-scale gas production, hydrogen supply, and on-site services.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1902

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