Overview

As Global Category Manager in Digital Procurement at Sanofi, you will own end-to-end strategy for Software, IT Services, and Strategic Hardware across the enterprise. You will drive complex negotiations, nurture strategic supplier relationships, and deliver meaningful savings as part of our AI-powered procurement transformation. You’ll work with senior stakeholders to align global plans with local execution, shaping the digital sourcing agenda at scale. This role offers a meaningful impact on procurement excellence, sustainability, and supplier diversity within a matrix, global environment.

Responsabilidades

- Design and execute competitive category strategies using market intelligence and long-range planning
- Lead strategic negotiations, globalization and harmonization programs, and critical supplier escalations
- Build sub-category roadmaps with project and savings pipelines aligned to budgets
- Establish risk mitigation plans with supplier assessments and scorecards
- Engage senior leaders to align procurement strategies with business goals




- Partner with Country Procurement Heads to translate global strategies locally
- Coach and develop Global Lead Buyers and domain teams
- Foster procurement excellence, ethics, and continuous improvement

Requisitos principales

- 15+ years in Procurement or related field with proven expertise in Digital/IT category management at general scale
- Master's degree (minimum)
- Fluent English; other languages a plus
- Strong negotiation skills in complex, global contracts
- Strategic, analytical thinker with results-driven mindset
- Excellent communicator capable of engaging C-suite stakeholders
- Ability to influence across multicultural, matrix organizations
- Solid understanding of SLAs and KPIs and business/legal/operational dimensions
- Commitment to high ethical standards and business integrity

- communication excellence
- strategic thinking
- influence and stakeholder management
- TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
- SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
- Market intelligence

📌 Global Category Manager for Digital - Sanofi (Barcelona)
🏢 Sanofi
📍 Barcelona