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Job Description
Senior Procurement Category Manager is responsible for planning and leading all strategic aspects within the specific category and developing 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. You will ensure best in class delivery of external products in the category Chemicals & Excipients 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.
Key responsibilities:
Implement category strategic goals from overall Procurement strategy / Ecosystem management:
Planning, organizing, and managing projects considering 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.
Projecting the dynamics and impacts (e.g. mergers and acquisitions). Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to factbased insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies.
Maintaining and updating Procurement applications accordingly to the Procurement content (e.g. catalogs, user portal). Continuous improvement of procurement content and automation.
Provision of strategies, approaches, and methods to allow for execution of the Source to Contract process: Preparing and conducting fact based negotiations. Providing a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business interests.
Achieving results by proactively building long term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks.
What you will bring to the role:
University / Advanced degree is required. Master's degree / other advanced degree is preferred.
Minimum 8 years of working experience in Procurement or other related experience within the Pharmaceutical industry.
Proven experience in sourcing, supplier management, stakeholder management, contract management, procurement compliance, savings delivery, and project implementation.
Communicates clearly, confidently, and professionally with diverse stakeholder groups across all organizational levels.
Ability to identify, analyze, and understand the needs of internal and external customers and translate insights into effective solutions.
Excellent spoken and written English. Other foreign languages as required.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office
What we offer:
Job location: Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Contract type: permanent contract with 6 months probation period
Expected weekly working hours: 40
Pay range (annual gross salary): € 64.000 – 96.000*
Salary at Sandoz is based on job level, qualifications, specific skills, and work experience. Fully proficient candidates are usually placed around the market median, less experienced candidates lower in the range, and those with strong or niche expertise higher. When determining placement within the range, we also consider internal pay equity and external market data. *
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