Global Head of Procurement Marketing / Data & Insights

Job Description Summary

The Global Procurement Head Category Marketing leads all strategic aspects within the category of Marketing (Agencies, Media, Print & Promo) for Sandoz, on a global level and develops proposals for strategic business decisions.
The role provides high value procurement solutions to the business and category strategies; supports third party vendor selection, vendor development, technology management and performance measurement activities. The Global Procurement Head Category Marketing ensures best-in-class delivery of external services and products in the Marketing category to support projects and to realize year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process improvements in close collaboration with the stakeholders in the business.

 

Job Description

Sandoz is going through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines.

Now as an independently listed company, Sandoz aims to increase its strategic focus, operate with greater agility, set clearer business objectives, enhance shareholder returns, and strengthen its culture for us, the Sandoz associates. This is an exciting time in our history, and by creating a new and ambitious path, it will provide a unique opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally. Join us as a Founder of our ‘new’ Sandoz!

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Drive/Implement category strategic goals from overall Procurement strategy / Ecosystem management

• Deriving game-changing strategies by defining clear category objectives, working with analytical data, business stakeholders and market expertise. Aligning strategies to measurable target and clearly conveying them to the organization.
• Projecting the dynamics and impacts (e.g., mergers and acquisitions). Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g., in category strategies.
• Participating in and / or leading financial discussions. Applying financial knowledge to participate actively, e.g. in budgeting process, including tax aspects in sourcing strategies and structuring sophisticated deals with ecosystem partners.
• Mapping the value chain, analyzing it and deriving potential scenarios. Includes the understanding and application of total cost of ownership and should cost modelling.
• Compliance & risk management: supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance (budget, payment, vendor PO, contract invoice, buying channel, etc.) and deriving corrective actions to improve compliance.
• Planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status.
• Managing data analysis and reporting, e.g. analyzing spend, demand, supply markets and competitors. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies.

Demand management 

• Responsible to ensure the right balance between business needs and Sandoz strategy.
• Accountable to work with stakeholders to identify the most cost-effective ways to deliver business objectives. 

Sourcing and supplier relationships management

• Executing the Source-to-Contract process including respective strategies, approaches and methods: preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations. Adapting tactics from a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business and Procurement objectives.

Manage relationships with (senior) stakeholders

• Analyzing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification confidently. Conveying messages clearly and convincing stakeholders.
• Achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• University/Advanced degree is required. Ideally in the area of Business & Administration and/ Supply Chain
• Master’s Degree/other advanced degree in the area of Procurement / Supply Chain is preferred ​
• 7-10 years’ of relevant business experience (industry specific experience)
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