Global Category Manager for Digital

Global Category Manager for Digital

• Location: Barcelona, Spain

Sanofi is a leading global healthcare company operating in90 countries with91,000 employees and€43.6B in revenue (2025), driven by one purpose:chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

Sanofi's Procurement function is abusiness-led, data-driven, AI-powered organization managing approximately€15 billion in annual spend. Reporting to the CFO, our Chief Procurement Officer leads five domains — includingDigital — with a strong focus on procurement excellence, supplier diversity, and sustainability.

About the Role

AsGlobal Category Manager in Digital Procurement, you will own end-to-end category strategy forSoftware, IT Services, and Strategic Hardware across all Sanofi entities worldwide. You will lead complex negotiations, manage strategic supplier relationships, deliver best-in-class savings, and drive Sanofi's AI-powered procurement transformation.

What You'll Do

Strategy & Innovation

• Design and executecompetitive category strategies grounded in market intelligence, risk assessment, and long-range business planning

• Drive supplier market expertise and identify emerging technologies, new suppliers, and service models

• Contribute to Sanofi'sAI-powered procurement transformation ("agentification")

Operations & Delivery

• Build and maintain asub-category roadmap with a project and savings pipeline aligned to budget cycles

• Deliveryear-over-year world-class savings targets and optimize Business Operational Impact (BOI)

• Lead strategic negotiations — globalization programs, harmonization initiatives, and critical supplier escalations

• Establish risk mitigation plans underpinned by supplier assessments and scorecards

Stakeholder Management

• Engagesenior leaders across Global Business Units and Support Functions to ensure procurement strategies are business-aligned

• Partner with Country Procurement Heads to translate global strategies at the local level

• Share market trends, benchmarks, and budget assumptions with key stakeholders

Team Development

• Coach and developGlobal Lead Buyers and Domain team members

• Foster a culture of procurement excellence, ethics, and continuous improvement

About You

Experience: 15+ years in Procurement or a closely related field, with proven expertise inDigital/IT category management (Software, IT Services, Hardware) at global scale.

Key Skills:

• Mastery of procurement methodologies: TCO, SRM, Market Intelligence, Risk Management

• Strong negotiation skills in complex, global contracts

• Strategic thinker with a results-driven, analytical mindset

• Exceptional communicator — confident engaging C-suite stakeholders

• Strong influencing skills across diverse, multicultural teams

• Solid understanding of business, legal, and operational dimensions (SLAs, KPIs)

• Experienced navigating complex matrix organizations

• High ethical standards and commitment to business integrity

Education: Minimum Master's degree from an accredited college or university.

Languages: Fluent English required; additional languages are a plus

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.