Summary
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Provide cross-divisional category expertise for Country / Cluster.
- Leads sourcing plan implementation in area of responsibility through: change planning, negotiation, contract development, etc.
- Actively contribute to the identification of business critical opportunities resulting in process improvement, savings generation.
- Leads sourcing plan implementation in area of responsibility through: change planning, negotiation, contract development, etc.
- Actively contribute to the identification of business critical opportunities resulting in process improvement, savings generation.
- Collect supplier, market, category and internal business data. Perform complex matter and vendor level spend analysis.
- Coordinates and collaborates with Category to ensure transparency and consistency on spend and savings data. Manage preferred supplier roster, incl. creating and monitoring SLAs, conducting regular performance reviews.
Minimum Requirements:
- > 5 years of relevant experience in a global environment in a similar position.
- Proven experience in spend reporting, analysis and optimization. Experience with eSourcing tools.
- Good understanding of Procurement business processes such as Tactical Buying, Catalogue Management, Contract Management, Supplier Setup and Procurement Operations.
- Excellent communication, people management, stakeholder management and leadership skills.
- Ability to ensure service focus across a complex people intensive and functionally dispersed organization. Advanced Analytical & Conceptual thinking, organizational skills, results oriented and proactive.
- Sound Business acumen and knowledge of Procurement function. Vendor Management.
- Fluent spoken and written english.
Why Novartis:
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here:
https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people and culture
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Accessibility and accommodation
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