MSc MAI INTERNATIONAL PURCHASING & INNOVATION MANAGEMENT Innovation capture is key

Purchasing used to be about finding the cheapest prices. This is no longer the case. Today purchasing is about working with strategic suppliers to capture 1st1st innovation and implement it as quickly as possible.

The focus is now on innovation capture and speed- worldwide purchasing programme to-market and the role of purchasing has become extremely strategic. Key suppliers have now become a real force of proposition. This change requires a totally different breed of purchasing professionals.

The MAI offers several training courses in purchasing. The MAI is recognized by multinationals as being at the leading age of purchasing and innovation capture for new product development.

Degree Campus Language Format Intake

MASTER OF BORDEAUX ENGLISH FULL TIME SEPTEMBER SCIENCE CAREERSCAREERS

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES MAI

The multinationals recruiting MAI students today are in almost every sectors: agro-alimentary, cosmetics, household goods, pharmaceutical, automobile, aeronautic and most service industries.

JOB TYPES: Lead Buyer / International Purchasing Director / Marketing Director / Consultant / Managing Director / Purchasing & Logistic Manager / Product Purchasing Manager / HR Purchasing Group Manager / Strategic Purchasing Director / New Product Director / Director of Innovation / International Sourcing Director € €42 500€42 500 98%98% 100%100% 11001100

average annual of graduates find work in an jobs offered to junior buyer a job within six international 400 students months after position graduation

POSITIONS AFTER 5 YEARS SECTORS

22% Purchasing Category Manager 38% Cosmetics & Household

20% Lead Buyer 18% Agro-Food

12% Innovation Sourcing Manager 14% Pharmaceutical

11% Purchasing Director 12% Automobile

10% New Product Development Manager 10% Aeronautic

10% Category Manager Marketing 8% Others

8% Product / Brand Manager

7% Consultant

PARTNER COMPANIES

Air France, Aventis, BMS, Bosch, Bouygues, Cadbury, Chupa Chups, Danone, Delphi, Diageo Guinness, EADS, EDF, Eiffage, Henkel, Heineken, Hermès, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, La Poste, Legrand, L’Oréal, LVMH, Michelin, Microsoft, Nestlé, Nokia, Novartis, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Renault, Safran, Sanofi, Schweppes, Schlumberger, SNPE, Saipem, Thales, Toyota… CURRICULUM

Pathway course

ACCESS DURATION CAMPUS FORMAT

Bachelor's degree - 3 2 academic Bordeaux Full time years semesters

SEMESTER 1

Manager skills Introduction to business management (Fast Track for Non-Managers) Fundamental of management Project management Performance management Soft Skills & personal development Toolbox (crossknowledge) Online options of your choice - Human resources - Finance management - Complexity management Languages : English / French as a foreign language

Expert skills International Purchasing & Innovation Management: Marketing Purchasing management Purchasing spectrum

SEMESTER 2

Innovative entrepreneur skills Design thinking Entrepreneurship Innovative business model Innovation financing Management of innovative organisations

Corporate Project A 5 month consultancy assignment on a real and current business issue of a company. Corporate Projects enable participants to gain valuable hands-on experience of business conduct and strategy and deal with the practical complexities of decision making processes. Students are guided by their KEDGE tutor throughout the project. The assignment is done in groups of 4 to 5 students. A combination of collective and individual work. Final presentation in front of the corporate and KEDGE tutors.

INTERNSHIP IN FRANCE OR ABROAD Specialisation course

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International 3 academic semesters Bordeaux Full time Bachelor's degree - 4 years

COURSESCOURSES NATHALIE GUENEC SEMESTER 1 & 2 Senior Manager Strategic Procurement, AIRBUS, Class 1993 PURCHASING MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP This module studies the ways and means to bring changes in The role of purchasing has organizations. It focuses particularly on case studies in completely changed… purchasing and procurement. purchasing managers today must have a vision PURCHASING VALUE CREATION AND VISION of the whole business. The importance is on design- This module targets the geopolitical impact on world business to-cost, optimising costs whilst capturing innovation that these changes offer to worldwide companies today. and ideas… finding suppliers who are a force of proposition. The MAI is at the forefront of training PURCHASING PROCESSES AND TOOLS high-level people for this strategic change. This module covers the best in class tools and techniques which are being used in purchasing and procurement nowadays. DAMIEN PARENTEAU INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENT VP Strategic This module focuses on the increasing role of strategic suppliers in enabling innovation capture and improving speed partnerships Asia, to market. It also covers all aspects of CSR in purchasing and CHANEL, Class 2003 procurement today. In the top-of-the-range luxury goods sector the SEMESTER 3 emphasis is put not only on quality but very much on innovation and speed. KEDGE ABILITY CERTIFICATE The role of purchasing Depending on your project you could be eligible to one of today is to be the active interface between the artistic these certificates: and marketing directors who are at the leading edge of creativity, and our strategic suppliers. The MAI Open innovation challenge focusses very much on the human qualities required Leadership & Management to operate in this very demanding and fast-moving SAP context. Doing Business in Emerged and Emerging Markets

INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIP

THESISTHESIS Programme highlights

A GLOBAL VISION OF THE DANIEL WEBER COMPANYCOMPANY Purchasing Vice President at FAURECIA Transversal courses allow MAI graduates to evolve on other types of functions: Marketing, Strategy, At a time when Product Development, etc. most companies are concentrating on their core THE STRENGTH OF A NETWORK business, and where value creation and innovation are the keys to success, the strategic role of This professional network of over 4,000 graduates - purchasing has become enormous. To my mind most of them working for major corporations - is the the MAI represents excellence in this field and only alumni community to have so many it is not surprising that there is a huge purchasing managers in Europe. It is also part of the demand for their students. KEDGE alumni network, which brings together more than 60,000 graduates from all over the world. MAURANEMAURANE CAPELLICAPELLI A PROGRAMME ACCLAIMED BY Global COMPANIES Procurement Packaging, RECKITT Recruiters are in constant touch with the MAI to BENCKISER, Class offer both internships and permanent posts to 2015 students and graduates. As an undergraduate I wasn’t sure what I wanted, but one thing was sure…I didn’t want REAL-LIFE WORKING CONDITIONS to be stuck in an office all day long ! The MAI helped me realize my dream. I am currently working in packaging purchasing in Students are exposed to real-world Amsterdam in a fastmoving and multicultural working conditions with a prime focus on environment. What I love is that I never have personal accountability and empowerment. two days the same…and every day brings a Lectures rely on everyday-life business cases, group new challenge! work, presentations, real application exercises, role plays, summary reports, etc. SOFT SKILLS

INTERNAL COMPETENCIES

• Be involved in new product development from the design stage onwards (new materials, substitutions, etc.) • Take on board all requirements and specificities related to the product • Know the client market and the trends at play in distributing and consuming the finished good • Be familiar with the inner workings of the company in order to understand its requirements • Identify assets and meet the requirements of the marketing department • Understand all performance drivers related to quality, price, service, delivery and innovation • Encourage the use of innovative purchasing approaches and techniques

EXTERNAL COMPETENCIES

• Detect suppliers with potential innovation • Involve key suppliers in the product development process • Explore new geographical purchasing sources • Meet potential suppliers for new products • Initiate and improve relations with suppliers • Select, manage and monitor the portfolio of suppliers • Become fluent in new technologies • Be proficient in the best in class strategies, techniques and tools applied to Purchasing • Monitor purchasing competition • Become an ambassador for own company’s requirements in terms of quality, price, deadlines and innovation Admission and funding

ONLINE APPLICATION SKYPE INTERVIEW Please apply online on join.kedge.edu This interview will be accessible to eligible We will get back to you within 15 working candidates only, and is composed of two days parts: the first part consists of a short written work, which can take different MANDATORY DOCUMENTS forms: an open question, an text analysis, • Academic records & CV a case study ... and the second part, a 30 • Scanned copy of your passport minute Skype interview with a • Highest degree certification representative of the program. As a job • Certificate of achievement or transcript interview, it aims to understand the of your current studies candidate's motivations, their knowledge • Level of English required for admission of the program and to judge the adequacy to specialisation course: TOEIC 780 / IELTS between their professional project and the 6 / IBT 85 (Applicants with at least one program topics. year of study or professional experience in an English-speaking country are exempt). IMPORTANT: we recommend that you Providing a score of English is not apply as soon as possible to ensure that mandatory to apply for the MSc pathway you are able to apply for your visa on time. course. • €120 of application fee to pay online

ACCESS DEGREE

International Bachelor's Specialisation course Master of degree - 4 Science years €19 000 - 3 academic semesters

Bachelor's Specialisation degree - 3 Pathway course Master of course years Science €8 500 - 2 academic €19 000 - 3 academic semesters semesters

SCHOLARSHIPS

At KEDGE, we strongly believe that students shouldn’t abandon their education projects because of funding problems. This is why we have launched a financial support plan aimed specifically at helping international students: - Students applying before the 28 February 2019 will automatically be granted an Early Bird discount of 10%. - We also offer a range of cumulative scholarships based on the candidate's academic level in order to support the high-profile candidates: Achievement scholarship (15%) and Academic Excellence (20%). MAI INTERNATIONAL PURCHASING & INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

KEDGE KEY FIGURES

• 12,500 students (of whom 23% are international) • 60,000 alumni • 7 campuses: Bordeaux, Marseille, Paris, Toulon, Suzhou, Shanghai and Dakar • 291 international partners (60 % with at least AACSB, EQUIS or AMBA accreditation) • 183 permanent teaching staff, of whom 44 % are international • 1st French Management Research School (L’Etudiant 2017)

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CONTACTS

ASIA (except China): Laurence MARIET SANCHEZ

[email protected] +33 (0)491.827.746

CHINA: Junyao LIU

[email protected] +86 (0)21 8023 8533

EUROPE, RUSSIA, MAGHREB: Martin BONNEFOND [email protected]

+33 (0)491.827.321

AMERICA, AFRICA: Catherine MAISONNEUVE [email protected] +33 (0)556.84.63.69

FRANCE: Claire LAMOUREUX (Non-contractual document) (Non-contractual [email protected] 05.56.84.63.48

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