Sourcing Specialist

5 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Balazs Full time

Air Liquide Australia is a market leader in Gases, Technologies and Services for Industry in Australia. Air Liquide Australia provides innovative, responsive and customer-focused services to our product range, which improves the performance of our customers while helping protect the environment.

As Sourcing Specialist, you will be pivotal in enhancing supply chain efficiency and cost management for our operations in Australia and New Zealand, focusing on transportation, logistics, and engineering services. This position is designed for an ambitious professional eager to grow in the area of business sourcing. You will collaborate closely with key stakeholders, lead negotiations & sourcing strategies that will contribute to Air Liquide's ambition of achieving innovative, responsive, and customer-focused service excellence in the gas sector.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?
  • Sourcing Strategy Development: Partner with internal stakeholders to assess business needs and develop sourcing plans and strategies focusing on transportation, logistic services, and engineering services.

  • Market Analysis and Strategic Supplier Relationship Development: Conduct market research, supplier evaluation and performance management, and analytical studies to identify and select optimal suppliers that will deliver to the business objectives.

  • End to End Sourcing Execution: Manage the full sourcing process including business partnering to the business and operations, sourcing process, supplier engagement, negotiations, and contracting to ensure alignment with business plans and category strategies.

  • Contract and Supplier Management: Lead contract negotiations including contract drafting, ensuring compliance and high performance of suppliers, managing supplier risk and relationships, building strategic supplier relationships, and issue resolutions with suppliers.

  • Stakeholder Collaboration and Management: Develop strong working relationships with stakeholders at various levels, influencing decisions and gaining commitment to collaboratively achieve sourcing and business objectives. This includes issue resolutions with cross functions to drive continuous improvement and performance culture in the organization.

Are you a MATCH?
  • Tertiary qualification in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering or a related field.

  • 3-5 years experience in procurement or sourcing.

  • Road transport and logistics experience preferred.

  • Technical Skills: Proficient in strategic sourcing, supplier management, and contract management is needed. Familiarity with matrix organizational structures is an advantage.

  • Analytical Abilities: Comfortable with data analytics and strong research skills to evaluate spend, market, suppliers, able to do business analysis and present business cases and/or recommendations.

  • Interpersonal Skills: Strong negotiations and influencing skills, relationship-building skills, ability to navigate ambiguity, and resilience in problem-solving.

  • Problem Solving Skills: Ability to manage competing priorities and make/drive decision-making or judgments in complex situations.

About Air Liquide

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's scientific territory and have been at the core of the company's activities since its creation in 1902.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively, and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success, and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

About Us

A world leader in gases, technologies, and services for Industry and Health.

Through the passion and diversity of its people, Air Liquide leverages energy and environment transition, changes in healthcare and digitization, and delivers greater value to all its stakeholders.

Join us for a stimulating experience: you'll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative, and respectful environment.

Discover what your professional journey at Air Liquide could be here

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