Procurement Manager Strategic

• Reporting to the Procurement Lead.
• Based in Maidenhead with 3/2 flexible working offered.
• Comprehensive salary bonus and benefits package.

Role overview:

The Procurement Manager is responsible for managing the entire strategic procurement process from strategic sourcing to contracting ensuring detailed aligned with global and regional category strategic vision. This role focuses on overseeing supplier selection and management maintaining compliance with procurement policies and executing tactical processes for supplier diversity and sustainability.

This position provides significant longterm development opportunities. Were looking for someone skilled in strategic category management and implementation who is keen to grow into a distinguished procurement professional.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for sourcing bidding negotiating contracting and purchasing goods and services in alignment with agreed category and business strategies.  Execute the competitive bidding process in accordance with the Organizations Purchasing Policy
• of category strategy within assigned remit as defined by Category Managers and local business needs. Develop and maintain a supply base that ensures the best value for quality delivery pricing service etc.  Includes oversight of all new vendor requests in alignment with preferred supplier networks and relevant category strategy
• Support and implement preferred supplier network for certain spend categories and help drive spend to these suppliers
• Maintain compliance with procurement policy and fulfils business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability executing tactical processes to create value.
• Proactive management of local preferred suppliers including anticipation resolution and communication. 
• Drive supplier management and ensures alignment to SRM strategy as determined by Procurement Lead and Category Managers fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions.
• Maintain excellence in all contract activities including source to contract and requisition to pay owning the implementation of strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and .
• Enable savings and assurance of supply manage savings leakage across downstream procurement processes
• Administer continuous improvement projects initiated by the PSC team embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations.
• Lead and nurture a team of Specialists setting ambitious performance targets providing tailored coaching and evaluating team performance.
• Partner with business partners to define skillsets workforce requirements capability needs and longterm organizational staffing goals.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in business administration Supply Chain Management or related field.
• Significant and proven experience in procurement supply chain or related business or operations function.
• Previous experience leading and influencing without authority
• Comprehensive understanding of procurement operations.
• Strong analytical problemsolving and leadership skills.
• Knowledge and experience within the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Specific and tactical expertise in implementing procurement processes including sourcetocontract planning and cost assessment ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.
• Strong experience in the respective category area with familiarity tailoring processes to meet category needs.
• Ability to manage the bidding and negotiation processes with adept ability to implement complex longterm projects with a focus on creating effective supplier relationships.
• Strong capacity and experience managing collaborative supplier relationships aligning procurement activities with business needs.
• Innovative problemsolving skills combined with a solutionoriented mindset enabling creative approaches and influential communication at all organizational levels.
• High crossfunctional collaboration abilities and teamwork skills effectively navigating and coordinating diverse team dynamics.
• Strong soft skills and emotional intelligence facilitating empathetic interactions effective communication and robust relationshipbuilding.
• Impactful executive functioning abilities and autonomous work ethic maintaining efficient performance in challenging situations and building consensus in decisionmaking.

Additional Information :

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity driving innovation transforming lives serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVies policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color religion national origin age sex (including pregnancy) physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information gender identity or expression sexual orientation marital status status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected group status.

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