Achraf Bannai is a Procurement professional with a passion for building supplier partnerships and co-innovation. He began his career at Air Liquide Healthcare prior joining Sanofi in the US, as a Global Clinical buyer, in 2017. Returning to France in 2019, he built the SRM Program for the R&D Procurement domain, forging Enterprise supplier agreements with a range of suppliers. In 2021, Achraf was promoted to his current role as Global Head of Research procurement. Achraf teaches Procurement at various business schools for Master’s students and was part of the first NEXT100 edition, a community of 100 leaders under 30 nominated by different CPOs and organized by DPW, the world's largest procurement community.