Want to join a fast-moving company, among hard-working and convivial teams and participate to our Group's procurement roadmap ? We are looking for a Global Procurement Category Analyst - Activation ! You will be based at The Island, our office in central Paris.

Your role

• Enable Pernod Ricard to contribute to our growth ambition, through contributing to the Smart Spend Program related to Activation
• Supports Global Category Managers to drive and contribute to development of the category strategy and roadmap
• Contributes to building tailored action plans and recommendations at the global level to maximize procurement impact
• Proposes & maintains efficient internal processes, provides analytical support and manages reporting across the category

Your key missions

• Contributes to the definition of roadmap to deliver objectives along 4 sources of value: Security of Supply, Margin Improvement, Sustainability and Accelerated Innovation for POS stream
• Identifies new trends (working with CoE, suppliers and affiliates) and links them towards strategic objectives
• Provide fit-for-purpose advanced analysis
• Supports negotiations with suppliers via data collection/consolidation, analysis and updating/challenging negotiation strategy when appropriate
• Is accountable for identification of risks and success factors for savings initiatives, provides information for business case creation

• Performs price comparisons and supplier benchmarking to allow good sourcing decisions
• Is part of interface towards suppliers – organizes regular business reviews with selected partners

• Organizes regular category reviews with selected affiliates and provides escalation support to find solutions for ongoing requests
• Manages global budgeting & performance/pipeline tracking process for category responsible

• Is responsible for implementation of digital tools and performance dashboards aligned with PR Procurement reporting tools

• Performs regular spend database analysis and provides regular updates on KPIs relevant for the category
• Provides costing analysis at the SKUs and/or sub-category and affiliate level and/or benchmarking studies for existing portfolio
• Follows category market inflation and updates PAF models as needed

If you recognize yourself in the description below, don’t wait to apply!

Professional

• Experienced professional with successful 3-5 years record in a procurement organization
• Experience in working within FMCG multi-cultural organizations

Technical

• Strong analytic and technical skills & data driven. Ability to create detailed costing models
• Good understanding of financial and commercial context of activation category
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills. Strong communication skills: verbal and presenting, proficient in English
• Strong IT competence: Practical experience and capabilities in digital & e-sourcing tools

Behavioral

• Open-minded and keen to develop and learn new things
• Self-motivated and ready to take responsibility
• Excellent stakeholder management & alignment capability
• Very strong time and activity planning and management
• Attentive to details, with a “can do” mentality
• Able to prioritize and work under pressure
• Resilient and self confident, able to positively influence others
• Can work across multiple initiatives at the same time

Wait, there’s more… 

We offer you an outstanding and collaborative workplace that embodies our sharing & conviviality culture, the possibility to work from home (2 days a week), a very complete mutual insurance, an attractive compensation including profit-sharing, the possibility to train daily and grow in global Group holding various brands distributed across more than 160 markets.

Pernod Ricard values diversity and solidarity within its organization and in its relations with its stakeholders. Our recruitment methods focus on skills and we welcome all types of talent.

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