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Edouard CandelierEC

Edouard Candelier

Indirect Buyer

€390/day
Paris, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Edouard

I am an indirect buyer with extensive experience in large groups (Crédit Agricole, COVEA, Emeria) across diverse areas such as marketing, IT, and intellectual services. Curious, organized, and comfortable with tools, I enjoy both negotiating and structuring processes.

Today, I am embarking on the freelance adventure, eager to discover new projects and collaborate with companies from various backgrounds. I look forward to putting my skills to work for new teams!
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Conversational

  • Spanish

    Basic

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Crédit Agricole IDF
    Indirect Buyer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2024 - April 2025 (1 year and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    Crédit Agricole IDF – Business Buyer (Jan 2024 – Apr 2025)

    Reporting to the Financial Department, I worked closely with management control and accounts payable.
    My main responsibilities included:

    Supporting internal clients: advising, training, and guiding them in their purchasing processes, teaching them how to use the purchasing tool, and raising awareness about compliance with the purchasing charter.

    Full management of tenders for various categories (facility management, consulting, IT, debt collection):

    Defining needs with subject matter experts (specifications)

    Selecting and soliciting suppliers (including carbon footprints, CSR assessments like EcoVadis, NDAs, etc.)

    Managing the process: launch, offer analysis, presentations, negotiation, and contracting.

    Work related to DORA regulation: identifying and analyzing ICT services, passing through the QECI to qualify the scope.

    Monitoring and reporting: creating/updating files for Purchasing and Management committees (supplier risks, economic dependency, financial health, CSR indicators, RFAR Label).

    Purchasing categories managed: intellectual services (with DFI), marketing/events, IT/Services.
    Teaching Purchasing strategy Ivalua Negotiation Legal
  • EMERIA
    Indirect Buyer
    REAL ESTATE
    November 2022 - May 2023 (6 months)
    Antony, France
    EMERIA (Foncia) – Indirect Buyer (Nov 2022 – May 2023)

    Within the Emeria group, I managed indirect purchases with a focus on IT and digital marketing.

    IT Purchases Management: Application and evolutionary maintenance contracts for Foncia Location Vacances, technical profiles (front-end, back-end, full-stack developers, project managers).

    Intellectual services and consulting: negotiation, contracting, supplier monitoring.

    Supplier Relations: establishing and monitoring contracts, securing services.
    Negotiation Purchasing strategy KPI KPI Monitoring Contracts
  • COVEA
    Indirect Buyer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    September 2021 - June 2022 (9 months)
    92300 Levallois-Perret, France
    Covéa – Indirect Buyer (Sep 2021 – Jun 2022)

    For Covéa's IT department, I managed intellectual services procurement (P2I).

    Tenders: launch and monitoring (IT project management/assistance, consulting), in collaboration with major firms (Sia Partners, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Mazars, Alten…).

    Supplier Panel: analysis and rationalization of partner IT service companies, establishment of framework agreements to streamline the tender process.

    Cross-functional activities: reporting, processing purchasing requests, supporting purchasing teams.
    Purchasing strategy Contracts Sourcing Specifications Ivalua

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Education

  • Master 2 - DESMA (Strategic Purchasing Management)
    IAE
    2022
    Grenoble IAE - Graduate School of Management
  • Master 1 - GPLA (Production Management, Logistics, and Purchasing)
    Grenoble IAE
    2021

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