Global Category Manager (Director Level): Pharmaceutical Sciences Contract Manufacture Outsourcing

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Job Description

OBJECTIVE: 

• The Global Category Manager (GCM) plans and leads category initiatives for a clearly defined sub-category or a group of elementary sub-categories with a total spend value of less than USD200m including contract manufacturing, raw materials and process development and develops and implements sub-category strategies for these markets facing spend categories as part of the wider Category Strategy. The GCM is accountable for a proportion of the overall category savings target and leads proactive category projects, spanning sourcing projects, demand management and process re-engineering, as well as managing sub-category specific supplier performance and innovation activities to support the delivery of the global procurement targets.
• The position is responsible for providing financial and business analysis (e.g. Data mining of Procurement and Financial Systems, output analysis and interpretation), supporting global market intelligence in the category area and acting as the focal point for category subject matter expertise to the global business and procurement community.
• The position will support Global Procurement Leadership in the development of formalized Category Management organization structures and category management methods and collaborates with procurement and business stakeholders on a global basis to ensure these are implemented effectively. In addition, the GCM will ensure appropriate Supplier Relationship Management efforts are implemented; the objective of which is to ensure performance delivery, continuous improvement and access to innovation from supplier arrangements to achieve value contribution targets on a global basis.
• Through the application of rigorous Category Management tools, systems and techniques, the GCM will deliver business value (operational and financial) in line with the agreed functional and business goals. In addition, they will take personal ownership of large and/or complex arrangements and provide subject matter expertise for other supply and commercial arrangements as required.
• Reporting into the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Cell Therapy  Global Procurement Category Lead, this position is expected to be aligned with multiple internal areas in Takeda and with our Pharmaceutical Sciences suppliers for Governance and Supplier Performance Management as well as working closely and in full alignment with the Takeda Pharmaceutical Sciences community for the effectiveness and deliverables of strategic projects

ACCOUNTABILITIES: 

Category Management Accountabilities:

This role is also responsible for global category management and sourcing leadership of Pharmaceutical Sciences subcategories, that is part of the overall R&D Procurement through collaboration with multiple business partners as well as regional and/or local sourcing professionals in a matrix organization.

The person will work with the Global Procurement Category Lead to support development and implementation of a sourcing strategy and leading the implementation with Pharmaceutical Sciences stakeholder team.  In addition, the person will be responsible to establish and lead cross-functional teams through the sourcing process and to provide strategy oversight. 

Day-to-day responsibilities of this role include establishing the category strategy, performing sourcing events, managing key metrics and analytics/BI and insights, including savings, supplier diversity, environmental sustainability and working capital to establishe