IT Buyer (M/F)

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE company, is a "human progress accelerator." It offers companies and individuals collaborative virtual environments that allow them to imagine more sustainable innovations. By developing a virtual twin of the real world, thanks to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its applications, Dassault Systèmes empowers its customers to push the boundaries of innovation, learning, and production. Dassault Systèmes' 20,000 employees work to create value for our 270,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit our site www.3ds.com/frAu. Within the Purchasing department, Dassault Systèmes is recruiting a Global Buyer for a 6-month internship for the IT segment, specifically Hardware. This category represents approximately 500 M euros at the group level and covers the sub-categories Hardware, Software, Hosting, Network, Services, Telecommunication, and Audiovisual. Purchases made in the year 2025 amount to approximately 1100 M euros; and include IT expenditures, Professional Services - Human Resources - Subcontracting, Overheads, Real Estate, Marketing, and Business Travel. You will report to the Global Sourcing Category Manager, also based in Vélizy.

Your tasks

Our motto: Protect and serve the interests of Dassault Systèmes - support every request to serve the operational excellence of Dassault Systèmes with an optimum balance between economic performance, quality of deliverables, and environmental commitment.

Define each year the strategy for your scope, the associated action plans, and the KPIs to guide and drive your action on the following aspects:

• Performance: expenditure control, TCO
• Governance: anticipation, global coordination
• SRM: management of key suppliers
• Monitoring: risk identification, market evolution
• "Sustainability": SBTi, Green Coding, optimization of needs

Respond to the purchasing needs of stakeholders in compliance with the purchasing strategy and policy:

• Analyze expenditures, existing processes, customer needs, and market best practices; in collaboration with internal stakeholders (IT Team) and the Global IT Sourcing Category Manager.
• Work in close collaboration with the purchasing team, IT/IS teams, and finance and legal points of contact: establish cooperative relationships, be proactive and challenging, and propose alternative/disruptive solutions.
• Optimize the purchasing budget through cost analysis and supplier competition via calls for tender.
• Negotiate commercial terms, manage risks, and validate the level of mutual commitment within the framework of contracts, and manage the monitoring of compliance with contractual commitments until their term, in collaboration with your internal stakeholders and the legal department.
• Manage the supplier panel of your portfolio with the stakeholders.
• Develop innovative purchasing solutions for DS and ensure monitoring of markets and suppliers, in France and abroad.
• Manage supplier performance evaluation in connection with stakeholders and propose a supplier panel management dynamic.
• Orient suppliers towards a Responsible Development strategy.
• Deploy methods and tools associated with purchasing performance.
• Be the guarantor of the application of internal procedures and the use of preferred suppliers and, in this context, carry out various communication actions with the projects and internal departments involved in this process (IT, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, etc.).
• Ensure the quality of reporting on these purchasing families (expenditure, savings, project monitoring, etc.).
• Contribute to implementing and deploying purchasing best practices within the group.

Your qualifications

A student in a Master's level (BAC+5) program in a business school, engineering school, or university training with a specialty in Purchasing, Supply Chain, Management, or Information Systems, you are looking for a 6-month internship.

• Initial exposure to purchasing (internship, work-study, or academic project) is appreciated.
• Professional English (written and oral) - TOEIC 900 or equivalent.
• Good command of the Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel, Powerpoint.
• Notions of using collaborative digital platforms.
• Strong interest in new technologies, IT, and the digital world.
• Curiosity, analytical capacity, and ability to synthesize.
• Rigor, organizational skills, and progressive autonomy.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in