Associate Procurement Manager IT/Energy&Utilities

at  AstraZeneca

Global Procurement Services Procurement Associate Manager
Will be responsible for specific relationships, the number will be dependent on the services that are being managed and complexity. They will be heavily influential in the re-negotiation of contracts, ensuring Service Level Agreement compliance, issue management and service change negotiations. Will be the point of contact for the business and supplier ensuring any issues are managed appropriately.

TYPICAL ACCOUNTABILITIES, EXPERIENCE & BEHAVIOURS

Responsible for Source to Contract activities:

• Proactively develop recommendations for effective strategies implementation to deliver category targets and savings targets and demonstrates contribution to procurement scorecard objectives
• Knows and applies Procurement Processes and Tools and actively drive Source to Contract process simplification, improvement, and optimisation (process steps, internal ways of working, legal support model, documents, and templates etc).
• Has deep category knowledge to independently drive the S2C process, understands the IT categories and/or Infrastructure categories (incl. FM, Energy&Utilities), business needs and priorities and applies them to the work.
• Knows and advises Stakeholders about Sourcing events and Contracts types
• Drive E2E (End 2 End) S2C process independently, including identifying and mitigating the related risks. Shares expertise with procurement and business and influence decision making process.
• Runs independently complex contracting projects, including driving in suppliers negotiations process, ensuring contract renewals and leading new contracts creation – negotiations/renegotiations of the T&C’s and contract clauses, that may include contracts administration – gathering signatures and contract storage in the system
• Enhance relations with Global Category Leaders and business stakeholders, ensuring high standards and ability to connect and build strong relationship with stakeholders across the globe (matrix organization)
• Ensure compliance to company procurement policies and improve the usage of the procurement tools

JOB ROLE

Currently, we are expanding our team and looking for professionals with various experience within the area of Global IT Procurement & Global Infrastructure Procurement that will bring value to the organization leveraging IT knowledge in many areas of our business.

Responsible for Source to Contract activities:

• Proactively develop recommendations for effective strategies implementation to deliver category targets and savings targets and demonstrates contribution to procurement scorecard objectives
• Knows and applies Procurement Processes and Tools and actively drive Source to Contract process simplification, improvement, and optimisation (process steps, internal ways of working, legal support model, documents, and templates etc).
• Has deep category knowledge to independently drive the S2C process, understands the IT categories and/or Infrastructure categories (incl. FM, Energy&Utilities), business needs and priorities and applies them to the work.
• Knows and advises Stakeholders about Sourcing events and Contracts types
• Drive E2E (End 2 End) S2C process independently, including identifying and mitigating the related risks. Shares expertise with procurement and business and influence decision making process.
• Runs independently complex contracting projects, including driving in suppliers negotiations process, ensuring contract renewals and leading new contracts creation – negotiations/renegotiations of the T&C’s and contract clauses, that may include contracts administration – gathering signatures and contract storage in the system
• Enhance relations with Global Category Leaders and business stakeholders, ensuring high standards and ability to connect and build strong relationship with stakeholders across the globe (matrix organization)
• Ensure compliance to company procurement policies and improve the usage of the procurement tool