Description

As a Junior Global Category Manager for Chemicals and Biological Consumables, you will play a key role in supporting the Group Category Management team by delivering high-quality data, reporting, and operational support to drive informed sourcing decisions.

This role contributes directly to the execution of global purchasing strategies for chemicals, laboratory glassware, biological reagents, and other consumables. It offers exposure to high-value procurement projects, cross-functional collaboration, and the opportunity to shape data-driven improvement initiatives within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Your responsibilities will be the following ones:

Sourcing support:

• Assist with sourcing activities for Chemicals and Biological Consumables, including supplier research, and basic contract preparation.
• Help standardise and maintain sourcing tools, templates, and documentation across sites.

Stakeholder management:

• Work with national purchasing teams and other departments to gather requirements and support purchasing decisions.
• Provide data and reports to support sourcing analysis and alignment with business needs.

Category and supplier management:

• Support category planning by tracking costs, supplier performance, and risks.
• Help monitor supplier performance and follow up on quality or delivery issues.
• Maintain supplier records and meeting notes to support relationship management.

Performance and improvement:

• Track purchasing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and assist in preparing performance reports.
• Contribute to improving sourcing processes and identifying cost-saving opportunities.

Sustainability and systems:

• Support the integration of sustainability principles in purchasing activities.
• Assist with testing or implementing new procurement tools and systems.
• Help collect and consolidate purchasing data for integration or new projects.

Location: Brussels, Belgium.

Starting date: as soon as possible.

Type of contract: permanent contract, full-time. 

Qualifications

Education: Master’s degree in business, engineering, economics, data science, or a related field.

Languages: Fluent in English, written and spoken.

Technical skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (especially Excel). Familiarity with Coupa or similar procurement systems is an advantage.

Interpersonal skills: Strong problem-solving and attention-to-detail skills, with a mindset for continuous process improvement. Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal.

Languages: Fluent in English, written and spoken.

Additional Info

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.