Facilities/Purchasing/Property
These functions are mainly in our Group Resources Division, whose mission is to develop the operational efficiency and productivity of the Group through the industrialisation of processes and the pooling of resources.
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Buyer
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Christophe B.
In the teams of the Purchasing Division, you assess as accurately as possible the needs of your internal clients so as to recommend to them the solution offering the best value for money. Throughout the process, your mission - while ensuring cohesion and coordination with the internal client - is to be proactive and innovative and to find the best trade-off for everyone's interests, both internally and in relation to the supplier.
Your interventions consist of:
- Defining the purchasing strategy
- Optimising forward planning of purchasing needs in conjunction with the operational entities
- Managing the purchasing process, defining the specification with your internal clients (invitation to tender, negotiation, contractualisation)
- Managing relations with internal clients, by proposing alternative solutions to them if necessary
- Setting up contracts.
Alexandre
Buyer and International Relationship Manager
"A graduate of the HEC business school (in 1996), I began my career as an Information Systems Consultant, before moving on to management auditing in the industrial sector. In 2001, I took part in the creation of the Support Purchasing Division of the Galeries Lafayette group, where my posts included buyer of software and IT services.
In April 2005, I joined Société Générale to handle the same kind of purchasing but in an international context, in which IT purchases are made in large volumes and are of strategic importance. For the subsidiaries of the Société Générale Group in Germany, I am also in charge of buyer coordination and promoting best practices. My duties also include the management of the Group's relations with one of its strategic suppliers. These different roles illustrate the diversity of responsibilities which can be entrusted to a Buyer at Société Générale."
Property Project Leader
Your position comprises many missions. In charge of project management or delegated project management for the property projects of the various departments of Société Générale and its subsidiaries, you are your internal client?s key contact for the management of his project.
You ensure, on behalf of your client, that the project is correctly completed, and that it complies with the agreed cost and deadlines.
Your responsibilities include:
- Participating in feasibility studies, understanding of client needs, analysing the property market and establishing offers
- Assisting the Customer Relations entity in preparing the service contract
- Filling in the project form (means, organisation, budget)
- Setting up, leading and coordinating the Project team
- Financial, administrative and technical management of the project, and the coordination of its legal and insurance aspects
- Final acceptance of the works and the delivery of the project, and the preparation for the operational opening of the facilities
- Monitoring the lifting of reserves
- Closing the project and reporting to your client and to your hierarchical structure.
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