Global Category Manager for 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

Location & Working Arrangement

Barcelona, Spain. Hybrid

Salary

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.

Benefits

• Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.

Additional Information

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 or via our movie We are Sanofi Start a career that makes a difference. 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.

#LI-Hybrid #BarcelonaHub #SanofiHubs Pursue progress, discover extraordinary 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.

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