• Manage activities from strategic sourcing to contracting, ensuring effective and detailed execution, including alignment with defined category strategic vision.
• Maintain compliance with procurement policy and fulfill business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, executing tactical processes to create value.
• Drive supplier management and ensure alignment to SRM strategy as determined by Procurement Lead and Category Managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions.
• Implement risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization’s interest and maintain operational resilience.
• Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, owning the implementation of strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution.
• Enable savings and assurance of supply, manage savings leakage across downstream procurement processes.
• Administer continuous improvement projects initiated by the PSC team, embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations.
• Lead and nurture a team of Specialists, setting ambitious performance targets, providing tailored coaching,and evaluating team performance.

Qualifications

This is how you make a difference:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or related business or operations function, Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Previous experience managing teams and comprehensive understanding of procurement operations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
• Fluent language skills in Englisch as well as German in written and spoken.

What we offer you: