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About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- providing end-to-end program management through the alignment of business requirements, operational excellence, strategic sourcing and negotiation expertise, supplier market intelligence
- delivering day-to-day Procurement services and demand management
- monitoring and supporting sourcing execution and negotiation performed by the buyer (also acts as an escalation point).
- maintaining strong information flows back to global Category team for opportunities to aggregate demand and generate additional leverage.
- ensuring operational Procurement requests are executed in line with category strategies, and in compliance with relevant policies and operating procedures, including preferred supplier agreements.
- chipping in to overall savings opportunity identification and delivery
Essential Requirements:
- Master’s degree or equivalent experience in fields such as business administration, finance, law or a scientific or technical field.
- Experience in Procurement and contracting.
- Experience in navigating in global, matrix organizations and across geographies and cultures.
- Extensive experience in sourcing processes (e.g. RFI/RFQ), negotiation strategies, project management.
- Good communication and collaboration skills as well as market analysis capabilities to drive operational excellence.
- Expertise in SAP or other management system.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
Desirable Requirements:
- CIPS or similar professional qualification
- German language Negotiating.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve
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