Senior Procurement Manager Agencies

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement strategic goals from overall stakeholder strategy / Ecosystem/Category management: Planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account 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.

• Demand management: Responsible to ensure the right balance between business needs and Novartis’ strategy. Accountable to work with stakeholders to identify the most cost-effective ways to deliver business objectives.

• Sourcing and supplier relationships management: Executing the Source-to-Contract process including respective strategies, approaches and methods: Preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations. Adapting tactics from a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business and Procurement objectives.

• Manage relationships with stakeholders: Analyzing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification confidently. Conveying messages clearly and convincing stakeholders.

• 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. Projecting the dynamics and impacts (e.g. mergers and acquisitions). Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies.

• Support definition and implementation of Procurement tools and processes.

Role Requirements:

• University/Advanced degree is required. Master’s Degree/other advanced degree is preferred.

• Preferably > 5-10 years of relevant subject experience (experience in Procurement, Supplier Management, Finance, Architecture).

• Preferably > 5-10 years of experience in Procurement or other related experience preferably in sourcing management , category management, supplier management, or related area, with a focus in agencies.

• Strong project management and other leadership experience.

• Stakeholder Management to CxO level.

• Strong influencer in decision-making process within and outside of procurement.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: :

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.