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, general 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 global scale * Masters 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 (S

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