Director, Strategic Sourcing: Technology

Reporting into the Global Head of Professional Service and Plasma sourcing; the Director Strategic Sourcing: Technology will be is responsible for the

development and execution of sourcing strategies for I&T with an annual value of $450-$500M includes combinations of spending from both Behring Seqirus and Vifor business.

Business impact is measured in terms of savings (P&L impact) as a percentage of spend this role will be responsible for delivering savings for the combined business. Responsible for stakeholder engagement the position holder will lead a team of 5-6 Procurement professionals to ensure continued Service Reliability Quality Improvements Supplier Innovation and Product Safety across CSLs I&T organization whilst mitigating risk and delivering year on year savings. Responsible for ensuring Procurement is involved at the earliest stages within the procurement lifecycle and involved in new IT investment decisions. Responsible for ensuring that Procurement is involved at the earliest stages within the procurement lifecycle and in new IT investments. This role is expected to interact with senior leaders from I&T organizations and must have the strategic thinking and gravitas to be able to influence. This role will be crucial at providing a robust and comprehensive market assessment for how these external partners can drive innovation speed agility and cost improvements to enable CSL to efficiently scale to our 2030 aspirations.

Responsibilities include: -

• Develop and implement Annual and longer plans for relevant categories based on the Procurement Strategy and other relevant business strategies within CSL to ensure clear goals and action plans for Global Category Management Lead roles resulting in the reduction of the total cost of ownership and risk while increasing innovation customer service compliance and quality.
• Develop strategies and ensure operational excellence across all categories of IT including managed services hardware software telecom and mobile services.
• Ability to influence and drive year-over-year cost savings while developing innovative strategies to drive CSL to a best-in-class financially managed IT organization.
• Independently develop complex strategies for supplier consolidation segmentation and best-in-class supplies management processes for key IT suppliers.
• Influence key stakeholders to drive continuous improvement reduce waste and eliminate redundancies across the hardware and software portfolios.
• Be a strategic partner to the IT Organization
• Drive value from a complex array of categories by ensuring that all Global Category Lead have effective category management strategies in place; establish and manage Councils for business-critical commodities aligned with the evolving business requirements to deliver lower cost of ownership lower risk higher quality and better supply performance.
• Lead complex and business-critical negotiations with key suppliers and provide coaching support for sourcing organizations to do the same.
• Establish and oversee SRM processes with critical global suppliers including risk management strategies following global policies and supplier segmentation to enhance relationships and innovations with a focus on the assurance of supply quality service continuous improvement and innovation while minimizing costs for CSL and develop processes to measure value above and beyond savings in line with Longer-Term Plans and objectives.
• Implement Global procedures to ensure execution of sourcing activities in compliance with CSL Sourcing Policy Code of Responsible Business Practices and all other compliance standards.
• Oversees and ensures achievement of Supply Performance KPIs and ensures Category Leads and Managers conduct regular Operational Reviews as per Procurements Governance processes with supporting analysis and reporting from the Centre of Excellence.
• Lead motivate and develop employees within the Procurement organization including effective long-term talent development succession planning and performance managing with a focus on supporting employees to meet or exceed performance expectations while demonstrating CSL Values.
• Build and maintain effective professional relationships with global senior executive internal stakeholders and the most senior executive of major suppliers to deliver on Procurements goals through ongoing discussions and participation in formal teams and groups with senior leaders in CSL and external vendors to manage supplier performance issues procurement improvement initiatives and other broader business issues.
• Lead and contribute to complex global transformation projects and continuous improvement initiatives as needed to ensure the delivery of targeted benefits.

Qualifications Skills and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management preferred or related field
• Experience with IT Software licenses is highly preferred
• Postgraduate business degree MBA highly regarded
• Minimum 15 years experience in strategic sourcing or relevant experience
• Minimum 5 years senior leadership experience leading a global team
• Deep understanding of the IT categories of Software Hardware and Telecom
• Ability to financially model large-scale IT acquisitions and develop appropriate sourcing strategies
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry or related industry preferred but not essential
• Incorporates external factors into business strategy
• Empowers One-CSL teams
• Creates an environment of decision making and appropriate risk-taking
• Creates a nimble environment
• Drives the strategy throughout the organization
• Takes proactive steps to secure future talent
• Additionally this role requires other knowledge skills and competencies including:
• Strategic orientation inquisitive comfortable with ambiguity and self-motivated to identify trends and improvement opportunities aligned with business objectives and strategic plans

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