Summary
About the Role
Position Title : Global Category Manager Professional Services
Location – Hyd #LI Hybrid
About the role :
Translates global divisional category strategy into global, divisional, sub category strategy OR translates regional procurement strategy into country strategy and local implementation.
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Experience in Professional Services subcategories like Management Consulting, Corporate Insurance, Translation, Audit, Document Management Services, Corporate Tax etc.
- Lead the implementation of sourcing plans for the sub category and deliver sub-category savings targets following engagement in the target setting process.
- Provide input into the overall Category or sub-category strategy about segmentation and identification of key supplier relationships, and lead business planning activities and ensure these projects are staffed and executed on a timely basis in line with the targeted goals.
- Manage strategic sub-category supplier relationships, and implement consistent key performance indicators for the sub-category, ensuring that any supplier performance risks and issues are resolved on a timely basis to end user satisfaction.
- May directly control at a country level purchases with respect to supplier choice, timing and commercial conditions (may vary between divisions depending on way spend is controlled).
- Collect supplier information and feedback from Divisions, countries, sites, Category teams and Business Partners, and deliver Procurement Balanced Scorecard metrics for the relevant sub category.
- Create, apply, complete and reviews major contracts for the sub category, and ensure that negotiated contracts are clearly communicated for the sub-category area and that they are consistently applied [Cross-Divisional $100 -$200m in Spend.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Manage the budget/resource allocation for the area of responsibility.
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)
- Procurement productivity savings -Value Delivery (Financial) & Customer Delivery (service Provision)
- Minimum Requirements, and hands on to Functional Breadth. Critical Negotiations, Industry/ Business Exposure, Cross Cultural Experience, Project Management, Operations Management and Execution.
Desirable Requirements:
- University/Advanced degree in Business Administration/Economics/Engineering is required and master’s degree/other advanced degree or equivalent experience in the supply chain management, business administration or similar is preferred.
- Min 8 years of Procurement experience including usage of SAP and spend analysis tool and contracting experience. Proven experience in navigating in global, matrix organizations and across geographies and cultures.
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.
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