Global Category Manager - Digital

Global Category Manager for Digital

• Location: Barcelona, Spain

Sanofi is a leading global healthcare company operating in 90 countries with 91,000 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 a business-led, data-driven, AI-powered organization managing approximately €15 billion in annual spend. Reporting to the CFO, our Chief Procurement Officer leads five domains - including Digital - with a strong focus on procurement excellence, supplier diversity, and sustainability.

About the Role

As Global Category Manager in Digital Procurement, you will own end-to-end category strategy for Software, 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 execute competitive 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's AI-powered procurement transformation ("agentification")

Operations & Delivery

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

• Deliver year-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

• Engage senior 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 develop Global 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 in Digital/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