Senior Strategic Buyer

**Onderneming**:
Since its creation more than 50 years ago, the Sodexo group has been the world leader in quality of life services.

At Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services, we’ve made our mark on the world by helping clients give their employees personalized experiences, every day. Our benefit platforms and payment solutions are already used by 440,000 clients and 36 million of their employees in 32 countries.

At Sodexo Benefits & Rewards Services, we are proud of our commitments to environmental sustainability, our focus on employment equity and diversity, our new ways of working independently and flexibility for the well-being of our talents. Joining us means evolving in a collaborative, innovative environment, in which each employee is recognized and receives the support they need for their development. We firmly believe that the quality of life of our clients and service consumers begins with our own people. Consequently, your wellbeing at work is one of our priorities.

Working with us is an opportunity to impact the future of employee experience and, ultimately, the world around us. But it’s also your chance to make an impact every day, putting a part of yourself into exciting digital products and touching the lives of millions of consumers.

We’re a global, multicultural business where every contribution counts and every day is a chance to inspire others and take inspiration from your colleagues.

We’re accelerating our growth on a global scale, combining the reach and stability of Sodexo with our unique position as an incubator of innovation. As part of the team, you’ll help us continue that growth and our landmark digital transformation.

Now, we’re inventing entirely new ways to influence and enrich the lives of employees worldwide.

**Functie**:
In BRS Belgium, we are launching a new role of Senior Strategic Buyer, with a mission of ;
- Drive continuous improvement through supplier relationships.
- Protect the company (management of supply shortages, disputes, incidents, etc.).
- Revisit processes with an ambition to progress
- Help increase financial results,

The heart of the business consists first of all in satisfying the needs of internal customers, obtaining the best performance from suppliers (Quality / Cost / Deadlines / Services) and optimizing complete costs.

**Your main responsibilities**:
Overall responsibilities:

- Accountable to the Sodexo Pass Belgium for the delivery of strategic procurement - savings delivery, value generation, stakeholder satisfaction, strategic procurement guidance, demand management, etc.
- Engage with the business to understand their requirements and identify sourcing opportunities that deliver value,
- Build strong stakeholder engagement -ensuring early & full engagement in strategic projects,
- Build & maintain category plans for complex categories which provide a clear view of upcoming procurement projects
- Deliver complex procurement projects in collaboration with cross-functional teams, with support from stakeholders as required, and ensuring the quality & timeliness of procurement projects,
- Anticipates key risks. Proactively develops and executes mitigating strategies effectively as and when required,
- Provide clear leadership/guidance to stakeholders,
- Sets the standard and provides guidance to stakeholders across in-scope departments on negotiation, Contract Management and SRM
- Ongoing periodic benefits tracking for complex contracts/projects

Core Capabilities:

- Excellent senior stakeholder management skills - confident at influencing senior stakeholders
- Confident and effective communicator
- Confidently leads cross functional teams to deliver complex procurement projects, guiding and influencing at key stakeholder engagement/sign off points
- Ability to manage multiple projects to challenging timescales, agile
- Expert in key procurement processes: strategic sourcing, category management, contract management, SRM
- Good knowledge of S2P & P2P processes and tools
- Mastery of core sourcing skill-set - analysis, project management, sourcing strategy development, strong negotiator

**Profiel**:

- 5-6 years’ experience in procurement, preferably in a Management Consulting / Financial Services / Business Services environment
- Strong knowledge of IS&T and digital categories
- Bachelor’s degree. MBA is a plus

**Aanbod**:

- When you start your job, you will receive adequate onboarding and training which will allow you to have a good command of Sodexo products and related procedures.
- We offer you a training course with real opportunities for development both within the team and within the company.
- A full-time contract
- A competitive salary with numerous extra-legal benefits.
- A pleasant work environment in a dynamic and inspiring company.

Quality of life at work:

- A work-life balance with possibility for home office
- A concierge service that offers various services: dry cleaning, ironing, shoe repair, purchase of g