Summary
About the Role
• Implement strategic goals from overall stakeholder strategy / Ecosystem/Category management: Planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status.
• Demand management: Responsible to ensure the right balance between business needs and Novartis’ strategy. Accountable to work with stakeholders to identify the most cost-effective ways to deliver business objectives.
• Sourcing and supplier relationships management: Executing the Source-to-Contract process including respective strategies, approaches and methods: Preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations. Adapting tactics from a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business and Procurement objectives.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders: Analyzing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification confidently. Conveying messages clearly and convincing stakeholders.
• Provide input into the overall Category or sub-category strategy about segmentation and identification of key supplier relationships, and lead business planning activities and ensure these projects are staffed and executed on a timely basis in line with the targeted goals. Projecting the dynamics and impacts (e.g. mergers and acquisitions). Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies.
• Support definition and implementation of Procurement tools and processes.
Minimum Requirements:
• University/Advanced degree is required. Master’s Degree/other advanced degree is preferred.
• Preferably > 5-10 years of relevant subject experience (Marketing related experience in Procurement).
• Preferably > 5-10 years of experience in Procurement or other related experience preferably in sourcing management , category management, supplier management, or related area, with a focus in the IT Services domain.
• Strong project management and other leadership experience.
• Stakeholder Management to CxO level.
• Strong influencer in decision-making process within and outside of procurement.
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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