Summary
About the Role
Your Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
• Sourcing activities
- Sourcing validation and analysis from business users, country procurement organization or category managers:
- Direct users on accurate buying (content streams) channels if required.
- Engage category teams where defined thresholds are met.
- Activities scope and sourcing plan definition, opportunity analysis.
- Supplier selection, requested risk analysis performance verification and update.
- Supplier scoring criteria definition and documentation preparation for driven bidding event.
- Inputs collection and sharing to category managers on overall category strategy.
- eSourcing event management and monitoring, supplier communication, supplier training, bidding analysis, pitch presentation organization.
- Document and communicate final award decision:
- Negotiations after the eSourcing event closure to reach the most competitive prices.
- Bids examination and sourcing summary sheet (outcome) completion.
- Recommendation to award and advising suppliers on competitive bidding results.
- Finding opportunities to improve and automate recurrent processes, thus allowing greater focus on value adding activities.
• Contracting activities
- Perform consistency checks and corrective actions (e.g. preferred vendors and related contract coverage).
- Supports the development of executive management reporting and business performance reviews, collaboration with SMEs to ensure clarity and consistency on various performance metrics.
- Support users with documentation required to submit purchase requests.
What you’ll bring to the role:
• > 2 years of experience of working in a global environment in a similar position of advantage.
• Experience of working in Procurement operations or equivalent operations.
• Experience in reporting & sophisticated analytical and presentation tools.
• Experience in spend reporting, analysis and optimization.
• Experience with eSourcing tools.
• Good understanding of operations and business culture of multinational company.
• Ability to work in virtual teams and with remote stakeholders.
• Experience in supporting clients directly / leading stakeholders.
• High validated interpersonal, communication & negotiation and skills.
• Advanced Analytical & Conceptual Thinking, interpersonal skills, results oriented and proactive.
• Strong sense for independence and self-drive.
• Curious mind and high motivation to learn.
LANGUAGES
Proficient spoken and written English and Japanese
Why Novartis?
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!
Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
