Purchasing Intern: Hybrid

Job Description
Purchasing is a world of analysis, strategy, relationship management, supply chains, and negotiations. This is the team responsible for sourcing and securing materials and services needed by different functions and teams, at the best price, quality and speed. These range from consumables used in the tests, equipment for our labs, building new sites to IT solutions used throughout the company.
To succeed, you’ll need good communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills, along with strong business acumen and strategic thinking abilities. With these talents, our support and development programs, and your own ambition, you’ll become a successful sourcing expert. Eurofins encourages job rotation in different categories or business areas to keep your challenged and to continue to grow
Students and entry level applicants will be taught everything they need to know to succeed through a mix of on the job training, access to best on class industry leading e-learning platform and coaching by the manager and peers. What we look for are people who demonstrate the ability or potential to collaborate, communicate effectively, influence, negotiate, analyze, and strategize.
Eurofins Purchasing professionals leverage their skills in strategy, operations, supplier relationship management, data analytics, supply chain management and experience with best-in-class tools. We focus on having a healthy balance of sourcing and operations mastery, and a breadth of experience across materials, services, and business units.A career here will develop your ability to be a solid sourcing professional with opportunities to grow vertically and horizontally within Purchasing or across functions throughout the company.
Eurofins Purchasing professionals have a diverse range of responsibilities:
Sourcingmaterialsand services
Tendering process
Identifying and working with suppliers and vendors
Developing sourcing strategies from market analysis or customer needs data
Developing and optimizing supply chains
Supply capacity and risk management
Cross-functional, internal, and external relationship management
Negotiations
Vendor performance assessments and evaluations
Contract management
Setting the standard in purchasing for our entire industry