Global Procurement Category Manager MS

Job Description

The Global Procurement Category Manager MS plans and leads all strategic aspects within the category of Market Research, 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 MS ensures best-in- class delivery of external services and products in the Market Research 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, e.g. in budgeting process, including tax aspects in sourcing strategies and structuring sophisticated deals with ecosystem partners. - Compliance & risk management: supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance (budget, payment, vendor PO, contract invoice, buying channel, etc.) 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 (e.g. mergers and acquisitions). Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies. - Maintaining and updating Procurement applications accordingly to the Procurement content (e.g. e-catalogs, user portal). Continuous improvement of procurement content and automation. - Support definition and implementation of Procurement tools and processes. - Managing data analysis and reporting, e.g. analyzing spend, demand, supply markets and competitors. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies. - 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. Minimum requirements What you ll bring to the role: University/Advanced degree is required. Master s degree in fields such as business administration, finance, law or a scientific or technical field is preferred. Strong preference for CIPS or sim English 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 Market Research domain. Strong project management or other leadership experience. Why consider Novartis750 million. That s how many lives our products touch. And while we re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people s livesWe believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world s toughest medical challenges. We are Novartis. Join us and help us reimagine medicine. Novartis is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons. Division NBS Business Unit PROCUREMENT NBS ,

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sales marketing retail sourcing pricing arketresearch environmentalimpactassessment riskmitigation costsavings customervalue dataanalysis sharedservices riskmanagement totalcostofownership