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World leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with approximately 66,000 employees and serves more than 3,6 million customers and patients.
Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902.
Air Liquide’s ambition is to lead its industry, deliver long-term performance and contribute to sustainability.
Entity and activity description
The Performance and Data Intelligence team comprises four employees including the manager, based across Germany and France, and coming from diverse backgrounds. The team works on 2 main functional areas:
- Performance Analytics (specialized by geography & processes) and
- Data Intelligence Specialists (focusing on procurement BI platform governance/development and data related projects like Wave and DPS representing the procurement domain
We are a dynamic, highly customer/-service oriented group, and we have a passion for data in general driving customer experience within Europe procurement.
We speak several languages - French, German, English, others are pretty welcome! :) On off days, we enjoy traveling, basketball and having a good time off work as well
Missions and Responsibilities
Providing solid planning & controlling processes as well as reliable and meaningful reporting and recommendations:
- Drive target, RFx & year closing processes
- Provide on-time and quality procurement dashboards on savings, budget consumption an operational KPIs and derive meaningful recommendations
- Provide logics of performance related reporting such as spend analysis
- Ensure savings calculation are understood and applied correctly by Procurement Teams (e.g. by performing plausibility checks)
- Train new Procurement members on the tool / methodology used for savings reporting
- Facilitate alignment process of savings by procurement with entities' ops controlling / stakeholders in business
- Continuously seek for improvement measures regarding performance analytics position
Accountabilities & related Activities:
- Support Savings Actual, RFx, Target & yearly closing process for Europe Procurement function (i.e. data extractions & data preparation of alignment meetings with operations control, saving projects content & plausibility checks, quarterly smART reporting to group procurement etc.)
- Administration of SRS (Savings Reporting Sheet) google sheet application ( incl. consolidation files maintenance, new user/entities addition, troubleshooting, access management)
- Administration of Microsoft Power Bi Europe savings application (i.e. data visualization, enhancements of dashboards etc.)
- Perform SRS and Power Bi savings applications end user trainings
- Process ad-hoc reporting
- Support/backup Volume Rebates Management Process (i.e. automation, monitoring, calculations , communication)
Competencies and Profile
- Master’s Degree of Business Administration / Controlling & Finance or from engineering school but with affinity to Business Admin, especially Controlling & Finance
Soft Skills:
- Motivated, flexible, self-driven and result-oriented
- Good communicator, good team player
- Strong analytical skills & structured work style
- Problem solving attitude and strong hands-on mentality
- Ability to work with given deadlines
Hard Skills:
- Cost and Controlling Management
- Google tools, knowledge of google scripting
- Strong analytic skills
- Familiar with ERP Systems
- Sourcing & Procurement processes (will be a PLUS)
- Data visualization with MS Power BI ( other BI systems experience like R, Python, SAP BW etc. would be a great PLUS!)
Language: Fluent English is mandatory, good level of French and German are a great plus!
Additional information
Please send your motivation letter and CV in English!
Position based in Düsseldorf, Germany for the duration of 24 months
Position open only for candidates eligible to the VIE program. Therefore, only the applicants meeting the requirements of the French V.I.E program will be taken into consideration. Please visit this website for more information about these requirements:
https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/en/what-is-the-vie-french-international-internship-program
The V.I.E., an international young graduate program, enables young professionals who are less than 28 and European Union nationals to work for a French company in any country of the world. Becoming part of this program means going abroad to carry out a professional assignment for up to 24 months whilst benefiting from social care coverage and an interesting salary, which depends on the host country.
Business France, the French agency for international business development, is in charge of all the administrative procedures of your assignment. For further information, please visit the following link: https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/en
Job Reference: FR16048
