Procurement Manager
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Job Description
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About the job
Company and Values:
Our Client is at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases. He aspire to be on of the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company.
Driven by a desire to improve life, his values represent the core of his soul:
- Innovation and Scientific Excellence
- Ethics and Integrity
- Respect and Mutual Respect
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Job Title & Context:
PROCUREMENT MANAGER
The position drives and implements the strategy, planning, and category management of spending. Through the continuous updating of extensive market knowledge, he/she is responsible for the sourcing, negotiation and overall management of suppliers, ensuring compliance with internal processes and procedures and according to the Group procurement strategy.
Organisation Chart/Direct Reports:
- Will report to the Head of Global Procurement.
- Global Procurement Team, Corporate Finance Team, Administration, Production & Logistic.
- Suppliers.
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Accountabilities:
- Maintain a positive and professional relationship with all key stakeholders to ensure that they understand the value procurement brings and sees you as a trusted advisor.
- Perform spending analysis for the spending areas to identify optimization opportunities.
- Develop category management strategy for the key spending category.
- Lead the creation and execution of sourcing strategies for multiple service categories including the development of prioritization, timelines, and value delivery (sourcing pipeline).
- Responsible for sourcing, benchmarking and negotiating activities ensuring compliance with internal processes, continuous improvement in quality, service and total cost of ownership in line with business requirements.
- Drive and support strategic procurement projects.
- Identify suppliers and strategic partners by segmentation of spending based on risk, criticality, and volume of spending.
- Maintain cooperative working relationships with vendors to stay current with trends and technologies, products and services.
- Work closely with legal and business leaders to drive contracts towards completion.
- Work together with Global Procurement Team to find spend synergies and optimization.
- Report spend analysis and highlights to the Head of Global Procurement.
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Hard Skills:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Finance, Science, Supply Chain or a related field.
- Experience in similar role preferably in the Biotech/Pharmaceutical/Life-science sector.
- Ability to manage and lead the creation and execution of sourcing strategies for multiple service categories including the development of prioritization, timelines, and value delivery.
- Knowledge of the main productivity and collaboration tools (Google Workspace, M SOffice).
- Familiarity with Procurement tools (e.g. SAP, ServiceNow, Jaggaer and Concur).
- Understanding of the biotech sales and marketing, logistics and corporate spend suppliers, products, and competitors.
- Comprehensions of the Procurement processes and capabilities, management process and Supply Chain Processes.
- Languages: Both English and Italian are mandatory.
Employment Type
Full Time
