Summary
About the Role
Major Accountabilities
- Translate global divisional Category strategy into effective sub-category strategies, sourcing plans and implementation activities.
- Lead sourcing initiatives within QC CAPEX (Robotics) and deliver agreed procurement savings and value targets.
- Contribute to the overall Category strategy, including supplier segmentation, strategic supplier identification and business planning.
- Lead strategic supplier relationships, establish consistent performance indicators and address supplier performance risks and issues promptly.
- Lead major contracting activities within the sub-category, ensuring negotiated agreements are clearly communicated and consistently applied.
- Gather supplier information and feedback from divisions, countries, sites, Category teams and Business Partners.
- Support the delivery of relevant Procurement Balanced Scorecard metrics and other measures of financial and customer value.
- Manage budgets and resource allocation within the area of responsibility, ensuring priority projects are appropriately resourced and delivered.
- Manage the performance and development of direct reports and contribute to the development of indirect team members, where applicable.
Minimum Requirements:
- 9+years of total experience and significant experience in Laboratory equipment and Automation, robotics, procurement, strategic sourcing or Category Management, with responsibility for complex sourcing initiatives.
- Experience developing and implementing category or sub-category strategies and sourcing plans. Technology-focused sourcing: Familiarity with sourcing technology-intensive solutions and considering lifecycle cost, scalability, interoperability and supplier or technology dependency would be an advantage.
- Strong experience managing strategic supplier relationships and supplier performance.
- Demonstrated commercial capability, including supplier negotiations and the management of significant contracts.
- Experience delivering procurement savings, value and relevant performance measures.
- Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions, countries, sites and business areas.
- Experience managing complex projects, priorities, budgets and resources within a procurement environment.
- Leadership capability, including experience managing and developing teams and talent.
Why Novartis?
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