Junior Purchaser Apprentice
Owkin
About us
Owkin is an AI biotechnology company that uses AI to find the right treatment for every patient. We combine the best of human and artificial intelligence to answer the research questions shared by biopharma and academic researchers. By closing the translational gap between complex biology and new treatments, we bring new diagnostics and drugs to patients sooner.
Owkin has raised over $300 million and became a unicorn through investments from leading biopharma companies (Sanofi and BMS) and venture funds (Fidelity, GV and BPI, among others).
Owkin is seeking the best and brightest to join our fast-growing and dynamic team.
About the role:
As Junior Purchaser, you will be part of a dynamic environment while joining Owkin’s finance team.
You will have the opportunity to develop purchasing within Owkin and occupy a key position within the company by bringing your creativity and rigour to the implementation and monitoring of the purchasing process.
You will work closely with Owkin's operational teams and will report directly to the Purchase Director.
In particular, you will:
- Participate in the development and implementation of purchasing strategies to ensure short and long term optimization
- Maintain purchasing procedures and ensure compliance with their application
- Participate in the identification and sourcing of suppliers and contribute to the negotiations of the applicable commercial conditions in compliance with the Purchasing policy
- Launch and manage tenders when required
- Develop and manage the relationship with internal stakeholders: identify, analyse expenses and challenge their needs.
- Manage the purchase requests and purchase orders follow up in our Purchase to Pay tool and improve continuously the tool
- Implement the monitoring of agreements (contracts, NDA…) with the support of the legal department
Position is based in our Paris offices.
About you
Required qualifications / experience:
- Coming from a Bac +4/5 training in a business school/university
- First experience in a Purchase department
- Knowledge of call for tenders, purchasing standards and procedures, purchasing techniques as well as negotiation techniques, contractual obligations (conditions for setting up contracts);
- Strong sense of analysis and organisation, autonomy, strength of proposal and negotiation, rigour, ability to work on several projects simultaneously, interpersonal skills and good communication
- Interest for technical and scientific topics
- A minimum intermediate level (B2) in written and spoken English;
- Flexibility and ease in working in a constantly changing environment;
Please submit your CV in English
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What we offer
- Flexible work organization
- Friendly and informal working environment
- Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds
Recruitment Process & Security
- Please complete the form and submit your CV.
- Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
- Owkin is a great place to work. Unfortunately, being a coveted workplace means we are vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:
- Legitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn.
- Communication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @owkin.com domain), over the phone or though our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).
- The Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser, however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact, please ask for them to send an email from @Owkin.com.
- The Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including, but not limited to, date of birth, social security numbers, or bank account information;
- Legitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone, in person, or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). They will not occur via Signal, Telegram or Messenger
- Owkin offers of employment are based on merit and only extended once a candidate has interviewed with members of the talent and hiring team. Offers will be extended both verbally and in written format.
If you think that you have been a victim of fraud,
- Check the identity of the talent team on LinkedIn.
- Check the existence of the position on our website https://owkin.com/hiring
- Notify Owkin's recruitment unit at this address hiring@owkin.com
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