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About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Support the development of the Category Strategy and the Annual Category Plan, as required by the Procurement Leadership Team.
- Implement sourcing business plan for area of responsibility -Deploy actions within categories, support the development of Category targets, and deliver savings targets where appropriate -Support the aggregation of all Category level data across Divisions to inform the top-down target setting process.
- Support the collection of supplier, market, Category and internal business information at both the Category and sub-category levels.
- Assist the coordination of materials for supplier segmentation processes, as defined by the Novartis Supplier Performance and Innovation Framework and directed by the Global Category Lead.
- Supports the tracking and documentation of risk and issue management for the category.
- Facilitate contract management and execution
- Understand applied practice, concepts and process in one or more procurement disciplines (e.g. category management, negotiation, contracts, systems and processes, project or information management).
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)
Minimum Requirements:
- > 2 years of experience of working in a global environment in a similar position of advantage.
- Experience of working in Procurement operations or equivalent operations.
- Experience in reporting & advanced analytical and presentation tools.
- Experience in Spend reporting, analysis and optimization.
- Experience with eSourcing tools.
- Good understanding of operations and business culture of multinational company.
- Ability to work in virtual teams and with remote stakeholders.
- Experience in supporting clients directly / managing Stakeholders.
- High proven interpersonal, communication & negotiation and skills.
- Advanced Analytical & Conceptual Thinking, organizational skills, results oriented and proactive.
- Strong sense for independence and self-drive.
- Curious mind and high motivation to learn.
Skills:
- Internal And External Customer Needs Analysis & Satisfaction Studies.
- Negotiation.
- Root Cause Analysis and Problem-Solving.
- Vendor Management.
Languages :
- English.
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