Global Proc. Category Manager, REFS

Job Description

The Global Procurement Category Manager REFS plans and leads all strategic aspects within the category of Global Utilities, across divisions, on a global level and develops proposals for strategic business decisions. The role provides high value procurement solutions to the business and category strategies; support third party vendor selection, vendor development, technology management and performance measurement activities. The Global Procurement Category Manager REFS ensures best-in-class delivery of external services and products in the Global Utilities category to support projects and to realize year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process improvements in close collaboration with the stakeholders in the business.Your responsibilities: - 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. - Mapping the value chain, analyzing it and deriving potential scenarios. Includes the understanding and application of total cost of ownership, and should cost modelling. - Participating in and / or leading financial discussions. Applying financial knowledge to participate actively, and structuring sophisticated deals with ecosystem partners. - Compliance risk management: supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance and deriving corrective actions to improve compliance. Applying risk management processes including identifying and evaluating risks, and defining and executing a risk mitigation plan. - Projecting the dynamics and impacts. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage. - Maintaining and updating Procurement applications accordingly to the Procurement content. Continuous improvement of procurement content and automation. - Support definition and implementation of Procurement tools and processes. - Managing data analysis and reporting. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage. - 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. - 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. - Proactive assessment of new ways of working, involving innovative scientific technical solutions by identifying and onboarding the right suppliers. - Analyzing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification confidently. Conveying messages clearly and convincing stakeholders. - Achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks. Minimum requirementsWhat you ll bring to the role: University/Advanced degree is required. Master s Degree/other advanced degree in the Category Management is preferred. Excellent spoken and written English. Other foreign languages as required. 2-5 years of relevant business experience (industry specific experience). Preferably > 5-10 years of experience in Procurement or other related experience within the Pharmaceutical industry, preferably in category management, supplier management, or related area, with a focus in the REFS domain. Strong project management or other leadership experience. ,

Keyskills :
pricing retail sourcing marketing nvironmentalimpactassessment costsavings dataanalysis riskmanagement riskmitigation totalcostofownership vendorselection customervalue