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Description

🔹 Senior Indirect Purchasing Consultant – 25 years of experience

I support companies in optimizing, structuring, or outsourcing their indirect purchasing with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach, perfectly aligned with business needs.

🔧 My expertise covers the entire purchasing cycle :

- Sourcing, managing tenders, contracting, etc...

- Supplier negotiation, panel rationalization

- Outsourcing of the purchasing function

- Reporting

- Budgetary analysis and savings reporting

- Cross-functional coordination & change management support

- Construction and implementation of the "Purchasing" function

- Development of purchasing strategy and writing of procedures

- Participation in audits and certifications

- Improving the efficiency and credibility of a purchasing organization by working on several axes such as CSR, professionalization, communication,

All within multi-site environments (France and Europe) and in contexts of significant change: development, restructuring on behalf of leading French companies in their business sectors.

📌 Cross-functional and strategic posture : I work at the intersection of Finance, IT, HR, Business Units, and General Management departments, ensuring coherent and profitable purchasing decisions, in line with company strategy.

📊 Solid financial skills : Thanks to my mastery of accounting and management control: Challenging total costs (TCO), Building structured savings plans, Speaking the same language as financial departments.

📦 Mastered purchasing categories : IT, telecommunications, consulting services, facilities, security, fleet, cleaning, waste management, travel, maintenance...

🏭 Sectors of intervention : Industry, energy, Telecoms, aeronautics, call centers, waste management, real estate...

📍 Intervention : Full Remote/On-site/Hybrid/etc...

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Bordeaux (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Lille (up to 50km), Tours (up to 50km), Toulouse (up to 50km)

SCC – Raising Places'Values
Senior Indirect Purchasing Consultant
REAL ESTATE
January 2025 - Today (1 year and 7 months)
Le Plessis-Robinson, France
As part of a purchasing support mission, I assisted the company SCC in launching and managing a multi-site tender (security of goods and people) covering approximately 34 sites in France.
The main objective was to optimize costs and service quality while harmonizing contractual practices nationwide.

My mission covered the entire tender cycle, from supplier referencing to negotiations, with a key role in analysis and reporting setup.

Mission Description:

Methodological advice on the exploitation and structuring of data in Excel, to improve the templates used for compiling and analyzing purchasing data.

Analysis of supplier responses after sending questionnaires.

Receipt and analysis of first-round bids, establishment of comparative summaries.

Organization of the second round: clarification of bids, drafting of question lists.

Challenging suppliers on technical, organizational, and pricing quality.

Receipt and analysis of second-round bids, drafting of a final summary.

Final negotiations, particularly on pricing conditions based on the number of sites concerned.

Effective and transparent competition across all sites.

Improvement in the quality of analyses through enhanced data structuring.

Budget optimization through multi-site negotiation and harmonization of contractual conditions.

Preparation of an informed choice for final selection, based on objective comparisons and rigorous monitoring.
Microsoft Excel Indirect Purchasing KPI Data Analysis Budget
ArianeGroup
Senior Indirect Purchasing Consultant
AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
October 2023 - December 2023 (2 months)
Bordeaux, France
As part of a strategic project to strengthen control over IT and telecommunications consulting services, ArianeGroup entrusted me with a purchasing performance and contractual security mission for a sensitive scope including: IT consulting services, software, hardware, and outsourcing contracts.
The main objective: to ensure supplier commitments are reliable, reduce contractual risks, and integrate new cybersecurity requirements, while optimizing costs.

My actions were focused on several areas:
Renegotiation and updating of consulting service contracts (P2I): integration of new regulatory and technological constraints.

Integration of cybersecurity clauses across all TelCo and IT contracts: ensuring supplier compliance with increasing cyber risks.

Negotiation of the financial impact related to new requirements: seeking a balance between group protection and budget control, with optimization of pricing conditions.

Drafting and securing outsourcing and P2I contracts.

Operational management of software projects: tenders, negotiations, contracting, particularly for critical tools (e.g., server failure tracking solutions).

Support for Purchasing and IT Departments
Indirect Purchasing Negotiation Contracts Cybersecurity KPI
Groupe Séché Environnement
Senior Indirect Purchasing Consultant
ENVIRONMENTAL
July 2023 - December 2023 (5 months)
Changé, France
Context
In a context of strong growth, Groupe Séché Environnement wished to strengthen its indirect purchasing management to secure its strategic supplies and optimize its costs. The mission focused on taking over and managing several sensitive portfolios.

Scope
Engineering and Control Offices / Consulting Services
Regulatory Purchasing
Marketing & Communication
General Expenses

Objectives
Ensure continuity of supply
Optimize budgets through consolidation and renegotiation
Strengthen supplier performance and contractual monitoring
Ensure regulatory compliance for sensitive purchases

Achievements
Purchasing coordination between the purchasing department, business teams, and financial department
Facilitation of steering committees and priority arbitration
Implementation of supplier performance indicators and SLA monitoring
Renegotiation of framework agreements and handling of amendments
Consolidation of volumes to generate economies of scale
Control of regulatory compliance and harmonization of procedures

Results
Savings generated through purchasing consolidation and targeted renegotiations
Improvement in service quality and supplier delivery times
Reduction of regulatory risks on sensitive portfolios
Implementation of more transversal and results-oriented purchasing management
Indirect Purchasing Purchasing Strategy Cost Reduction Tender Response Specifications