ABOUT THE COMPANY

If a career at Dechra has piqued your interest, find out more at Dechra Careers.
Dechra is a growing, global specialist in veterinary pharmaceuticals. Our expertise is in the development, manufacture, marketing and sales of high quality products exclusively for veterinarians worldwide.
All applications received are reviewed by our internal talent acquisition team and we will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. Should you not hear back from us within 28 days please don’t be too disappointed - we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies which could be suitable, and we encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site. We value diversity within our global workforce and encourage an inclusive culture. Any questions or queries, please contact us at recruituk@dechra.co

ROLE RESPONSIBILITY

So, what will you be doing? This role has a broad and varied remit and the successful candidate will have responsibility for duties including:

• Developing and deploying a direct procurement strategy that will deliver significant financial impact across the business
• Taking full responsibility and accountability for sourcing processes, whilst utilising sourcing techniques and best practice that will deliver significant benefit to the business
• Providing leadership and development to the Procurement function and ensuring the category teams provide the appropriate level of commercial expertise
• Ensuring the ongoing development of category management
• Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders and key suppliers
• Evaluating market trends and implementing procurement strategies/initiatives that will enable the business to further develop their commercial proposition
• Lead changes associated with implementation of future state supply chain improvements and ensure the processes are sustainable by embedding a structured governance model
• Collaborate with Supply Chain, Dechra and DM&S senior leadership to assess strategic & operational procurement process maturity across Dechra and develop 3yr improvement road map to develop best in class.
• Program manage major direct procurement process improvement initiatives across Dechra, collaborating with the global supply chain team, operations, product development & engineering
• Partner with operational and finance teams to create a process to analyse & create product specific procurement cost reduction plans
• Develop direct procurement systems strategy, and develop an implementation plan, all to enhance current capabilities & program manage the deployment across all DM&S
• Develop and embed procurement performance governance process & host procurement operating reviews across all regions & material categories.
• Periodically benchmark performance externally to understand gaps & opportunities to best in class
• Develop & deploy procurement data analytics strategy to improve the capability and use of data analytics in supply chain to improve decision making
• Program manage global procurement compliance, in line with FTSE and other regulatory body compliance, working with external support partners and the procurement team
• Monitor global supply chain KPI performance, drive improvement, & corrective actions
• Evaluate and develop a supply base risk methodology and deploy across DPM&S.

Here at Dechra we pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We know that individuals’ unique background and experience can bring a wealth of variety and expertise to our global workforce. For this role, we’re particularly keen to hear from those who have/are:

• Proven leadership capabilities in a leadership role
• Fully IT literate: Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel
• Pro-active and solutions drive with the ability to work to strict deadlines
• Proven effective communicator across all levels with an ability to create a collaborative work environment
• Stakeholder management experience across various business levels, locations and functions
• Commitment to ensuring projects are completed correctly
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Experience of developing procurement strategies
• Demonstrable regulated business procurement experience, including dealing with contract manufacturing organisations.
• Degree level (or equivalent experience) with a CIPS qualification