Air Liquide in Spain was founded in 1909 and today is made up of a dynamic team working in industry and healthcare throughout the country.
We offer gas, equipment and services for a variety of industries: from oil and gas, automotive, metal fabrication to chemical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, food and beverage and healthcare. Our local projects confirm the Group's commitment to developing innovative solutions that promote the energy transition, including hydrogen energy.
As a market leader, we aim to create value by offering cutting-edge solutions. We are committed to ensuring that our customers receive the best and most cost-effective performance from our products and services and that our patients receive the best quality of care. In today's competitive and ever-changing markets, it is the added value we offer our customers that makes the vital difference.
ES10061-ESPANA AL AIR LIQUIDE ESPAÑA, S.A.
Air Liquide works in partnership with a portfolio of major transport companies across Europe ensuring safe and reliable delivery of Products to our End Customers.
With a team of Category managers in all key geographies across Europe, the Europe Procurement Transport Team supports Air Liquide supply chain operations by identifying and managing contractual relationships with best in class partners in tems of salefty, sustainability and competitiveness.
How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?
Please send your CV and motivation letter in English!
Position based in Villaverde Madrid, Spain for an initial period of 12 months, (extendable once).
Position open only for candidates eligible to the VIE program. Therefore, only the applicants meeting the requirements of the French V.I.E program will be taken into consideration. Please visit this website for more information about these requirements:
https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/en/what-is-the-vie-french-international-internship-program
The V.I.E., an international young graduate program, enables young professionals who are less than 28 and European Union nationals to work for a French company in any country of the world. Becoming part of this program means going abroad to carry out a professional assignment for up to 24 months whilst benefiting from social care coverage and an interesting salary, which depends on the host country.
Business France, the French agency for international business development, is in charge of all the administrative procedures of your assignment. For further information, please visit the following link:
https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/en
In support of the Category Manager Transport Iberia the key missions and responsibilities are:
Implementation of the transport (road, rail, sea) strategy in Iberia for PG/bulk in alignment with focus on: Safety, Clean Fleet Deployment, Efficiencies within Value Co-Creation agreements, portfolio consolidation, contract optimizations
Analyze market analysis of existing and novel players and TCO drivers
Support of Purchasing activities, including e.g.:
Analyzing needs with operational stakeholders and discussing them with the requesters
Identify possible partners and consolidate synthetic proposals for management review
Conduct requests for information and RFQs, analyze offers based on TCO, finalize shortlist; Prepare, conduct and conclude negotiations
What We Offer ?
Play a key role in optimizing our transport costs and improving our global supply chain.
Make a concrete contribution to the Group's purchasing strategy, by identifying and implementing innovative and sustainable transport solutions.
Benefit from personalized coaching from experts in the field, enabling you to rapidly develop your negotiation, project management and market analysis skills.
Are you a MATCH?
Soft and Hard Skills
Who You Are:
Eligible for the VIE program.
Completed bachelor's degree with a business / procurement focus
Very good knowledge of English / good knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese
Analytical, influential, interpersonal and communication skills
Result-oriented and very organized way of working
Innovative and flexible
Team player and network promoting
High reactivity and proactive at the same time
Good adaptability
Languages:
English fluency is Must have
French is Nice to have
Spanish is Must have
Internal communication aimed at employees already hired by the Company, in compliance with the AL AIR LIQUIDE ESPAÑA, S.A., and AIR LIQUIDE IBERICA DE GASES, S.L.U. Collective Agreement (Art. 12)
Our Differences make our Performance
At Air Liquide, we are committed to build 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.
