Summary
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver End-to-End sourcing not limited to tendering and contracting activities, including post signature contract management (contract drafting based on agreed templates; full terms and conditions or contractual terms negotiation; contract review and contract content approvals coordination, signature process initiation and monitoring; contract archiving in the global standard contract management system).
- You will collect supplier, market, category and internal business data; perform complex matter and vendor level spend analysis; coordinate and collaborate with category to ensure transparency and consistency on spend and savings data; manage preferred supplier roster, incl. creating and monitoring SLAs, conducting regular performance reviews etc.
- You will be implementing projects across your categories & functions, support stakeholder alignment and customer satisfaction.
- Accountable for productivity/cost efficiency targets for your area.
- You will be a key contact person for stakeholders (internal, suppliers etc). You will build effective relationships of mutual trust and understanding with key suppliers or other stakeholders.
- Provide cross-divisional category expertise for the manufacturing sites in Austria and across procurement clusters
- You will lead sourcing plan development and implementation for your area of responsibility through change planning, negotiation, contract development, etc.
- Support management by providing analytics and tracking matter specific metrics, prepare ad-hoc reports for customers and the category team.
Essential Requirements:
- University/Advanced degree in Business Administration/Economics/Finance/Statistics is required.
- Minimum 5 years of experience of working in a global environment in a similar position of advantage, preferably more. Minimum 3 years of experience working in Indirect Procurement, preferably in OPEX or CAPEX
- Excellent spoken and written German or English are a must.
- Good understanding of Procurement business processes such as Tactical Buying, Catalogue Management, Contract Management, Supplier Setup and Procurement Operations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Advanced analytical & conceptual thinking, organizational skills, results oriented and proactive.
- Accountability, hands-on mentality and ability to quickly learn and understand data from multiple sources.
Benefits and rewards: Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement) ; 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus in the amount of 12,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Public Transportation allowance; MultiSport Card. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: https://www.novartis.cz/
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