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David Grandon

Experienced Buyer

€1,700/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 2 hours

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About David

Professional with 15 years of experience in purchasing management, specializing in strategic negotiation and achieving rapid results. Recognized for optimizing costs while maintaining strong supplier relationships, I have led teams to operational excellence by adapting innovative purchasing strategies. My expertise covers spend analysis, negotiation, contract management, and the implementation of efficient purchasing processes, thereby ensuring significant and sustainable gains for the company.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Alliance Healthcare Repartition
    Director of Generic Drugs Business Unit
    May 2025 - Today (1 year and 3 months)
    Gennevilliers, France
    • Define and manage the French generic strategy across Distribution and Retail channels for a portfolio of €850 million.
    • Negotiate national framework agreements with partner laboratories (Viatris, Teva, Sandoz, Biogaran, Zentiva, Arrow, etc.).
    • Supervise the economic performance of the portfolio: revenue, margins, exclusions, actual remuneration rates (RROs), and weighted profitability.
    • Design and deploy trade action plans to strengthen the commercial dynamic of groups and visibility in pharmacies.
    • Manage a multidisciplinary team (purchasing, trade marketing) dedicated to generic performance.
    • Build a new TCO management model integrating actual costs and value levers for distribution and Retail.
    • Ensure strategic consistency between distribution and Retail networks, in conjunction with Finance, Network, and Marketing departments.
    • Monitor contractual performance and market trends, in regular interaction with Cencora Europe.
    Commercial Negotiation Contract Negotiation Negotiation Team Management Finance
  • PHOENIX Pharmahandel GmbH & Co KG
    Head of Purchasing
    PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
    July 2019 - February 2024 (4 years and 7 months)
    Créteil, France
    Portfolios of 120 laboratories and suppliers, budget of €1.5 billion. Ebidat x 10 on an entity in 2022 thanks to negotiations. Performance analysis, management, contracting, legal and regulatory watch.
  • Union des pharmaciens européens indépendants
    General Manager
    MEDICAL
    January 2018 - July 2019 (1 year and 6 months)
    Paris, France
    Management of a group of 45 pharmacies. Implementation of a purchasing department, improvement of the cooperative's revenue in the first year (>20%). Member of the executive committee and the board of directors. Launch of a private label range (sourcing, contracting...)

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Education

  • CESA PURCHASING
    HEC Paris
    2013
  • Organizational Leadership Certificate
    HEC Montréal (CA)
    Compréhension des facettes du pouvoir en entreprise et de ses aspects psychologiques dans un contexte de changement.

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