Description
For our client, an international pharma company, we are looking for a
Sourcing Manager - Corporate Functions (m/f)
Reference: -en
Start: asap
Duration: 3 MM+
Place: in Basel-City
Branch: Pharmazeutische Industrie
Your tasks:
- Advise and support defined key business stakeholders within the Procurement category Professional Services
- Own a spend category for all the company's divisions and functions
- Define the respective category strategy and manage relevant suppliers within Professional services covering a regional spend of 35 million EUR per year
- Create and implement a sourcing strategy that adds significant value of the business (e.g. savings, payment terms, increased compliance/sustainability, reduced risk)
- Keep up to date on category market intelligence and supply market trends to gain competitive market advantage and to make better business decisions
- Analyze and understand total cost of ownership structures for areas of responsibility to develop better and/or innovative pricing models
- Apply state-of-the-art Supplier Management to whole supply base within responsibility
- Steer and align supplier stakeholder landscape with internal business stakeholders and external key supplier contacts to build uniform understanding of supplier’s role and performance
- Develop a supplier strategy that is in-line with existing sourcing strategies and for achievement of strategic objectives, e.g. analyzing supplier cost structures and drivers and discuss continuous improvement and process optimization with suppliers
- Establish effective, trustful relationships with local key Business Stakeholders to set joint targets and align sourcing projects (also across-categories) and act as the contact for sourcing a variety of services for the business stakeholder community
- Know business strategies objectives, understand and challenge resulting business requirements
- Jointly define and agree what value procurement can add for the relevant stakeholder community
Your qualifications
- Advanced degree is highly preferred (Master, MBA e.g.).
- Solid experience, working knowledge of sourcing process and tactical purchasing principles and practices
- Ability to multi-task and adjust sourcing priorities as dictated by the dynamics of projects, to include the ability to change resources to solve a diversity of problems
- Solid category expertise
- Strong negotiation, communication, influencing and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated analytical decision making skills and creative thought process ability
- Experience in Change Management and Project Management
- Financial Acumen and strategic mindset and passion for the job
- Able to work in teams
- Fluent in German and English
Skills:
- Purchaser
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