Summary
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Sourcing validation and analysis from business users, country procurement organization or category managers, like direct users on correct buying (content streams) channels if required.
- Supplier selection, requested risk analysis performance verification and update.
- Supplier scoring criteria definition and documentation preparation for competitive bidding event.
- eSourcing event management and monitoring, supplier communication, supplier training, bidding analysis, pitch presentation organization.
- Negotiations after the eSourcing event closure to reach the most competitive prices. Bids examination and sourcing summary sheet (outcome) completion. Recommendation to award and informing suppliers on competitive bidding results.
- Finding opportunities to improve and automate recurrent processes, thus allowing greater focus on value adding activities.
- Contract preparation. Contract drafting based on agreed templates. Full terms and conditions or contractual terms negotiation. Contract review and contract content approvals coordination, signature process initiation and monitoring (ink, electronic). Contract archiving in the global standard contract management system.
- Perform consistency checks and corrective actions (e.g. preferred vendors and related contract coverage).
Essential Requirements:
- University/Advanced degree in Business Administration/Economics/Finance/Statistics or similar.
- Minimum 2 years of experience of working in a global environment, within Procurement and understanding of P2P Processes.
- Experience in Spend reporting, analysis and optimization. Experience with eSourcing tools.
- Experience in supporting clients directly / managing Stakeholders.
- High proven interpersonal, communication & negotiation and skills.
- Advanced Analytical & Conceptual Thinking, organizational skills, results oriented and proactive.
- Good understanding of operations and business culture of multinational company.
- Ability to work in virtual teams and with remote stakeholders. Strong sense for independence and self-drive. Curious mind and high motivation to learn.
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Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to di.cz@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
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