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

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The salary range for this position is :€69.200,00 - €103.800,00

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.

About Us

We are an R&D driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and creating compelling growth. Our team is guided by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

We want to build a healthier, more resilient world, and turn the impossible into the possible by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines and vaccines for millions of people around the world.

Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi

Why Sanofi

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Reinvention is in our DNA. It’s what drove our evolution from a small French enterprise to one of the world’s leading biopharma companies. Whether it’s using AI to shorten drug-discovery times or building trust in healthcare, you could be helping our teams make life better for patients, partners, and communities.

This is where you grow your career. We open the door for you to explore new opportunities, push your limits, and connect with people who are driven by a shared purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Global Category Manager for Digital