Stage - Siege Social - Chef de projet Digital Procurement H/F

Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health. Present in 72 countries with approximately 67 800 employees, the Group serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are small molecules essential to life, matter and energy. They embody the scientific territory of Air Liquide and have been at the heart of the Group's business since its creation in 1902.
Air Liquide aims to be a leader in its industry, to perform well over the long term and to contribute to a more sustainable world.
Air Liquide places diversity at the heart of its activities and is committed in particular to promoting professional equality and the employment of workers with disabilities.

 

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

 

In the frame of the GYM Program, Group Procurement has defined its 2025 Blueprint, mobilizing more than 100 people from Procurement, Operations, HR and Finance across all Air Liquide businesses and geographies, in a co-construction approach. It laid out a clear end-state for the Procurement function in 2025 and the associated transformation roadmap, building on learnings from past Procurement transformations.

The 2025 Blueprint is structured around 7 strategic priorities , systematically strengthening the link between Procurement and Business .

The Transformation Management Office (TMO) team works hand-in-hand with Group / Hubs / WBUs Procurement teams, Operations, HR and Finance in a co-construction effort. In addition to the support of the Blueprint deployment, the TMO is looking at other opportunities of optimization, in particular in the Procure to Pay processes, leveraging digital and organization changes. The P2P Junior analyst will support the Group P2P manager in the streamlining of the processes, the alignment of the tools and the implementation of automation initiatives on the procure to pay process. He/She will also establish a dashboard listing the issues met by the teams and the actions plans put in place to improve the procurement.

With the support of our teams and your manager, you will carry out the following missions during your internship: 

1-Procurement Digitization:

• Support the definition of the Procure-to-Pay tools roadmap:

• Understand the needs of the procurement organization and the current situation and functions of each Hubs/ World Business Units.

• Compare functionalities and costs of several solutions.

• Establish a Matrix of internal customers needs VS satisfaction

• Support the P2P Manager in the establishment of the best to-be model in terms of P2P platform for the organization

2-Set up and follow up of KPIs

Procure-to-Pay activities must be monitored to ensure efficiency and compliance of the process.

In order to achieve this, the main activities will be: 

• Understand the needs of the organization and design the P2P KPI accordingly.

• Design of the P2P dashboard which will be a monitoring tool for the management and for the procurement teams in charge of P2P activities.

• Subsequently Work with local procurement team to make sure all master data are well prepared

• Work closely with the P2P managers and the stakeholders to set up and track success KPIs (key performance indicators) to follow the implementation and progress of the countries

3 Standardization of Procurement Processes

Through workshops with the stakeholders , the intern will help to establish the best in class process governing the P2P across the group.

• Collect information about best practices in the procurement organization.

• Support the P2P manager in the formalization of procurement processes for the Air Liquide Procurement function.

• Understand countries users pain points and use continuous improvement methodology and mindset to improve processes

 

Are you a MATCH?

 

Profile and Competences

For this position, we are looking for the following qualities: 

• Master's student in a business or engineering school, preferably with a purchasing specialization

• Analytical Mindset with interest in process analysis and continuous improvement

• Prior experience appreciated

• Candidate is able to work in a team but also independently

• Great communication skills as the candidate will have to communicate with users in all geographies

• Experts in Google / Microsoft suite notably with confidence and presentation skills.

• Proficiency in English - Other languages ​​appreciated

Further information

Air Liquide is labeled “Happy Trainees”.

The internship