Platform Business Partner, GMS CapEx Procurement

Role Description

Zoetis Inc. is a global leader in the animal health industry, focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and commercialization of medicines, vaccines, diagnostic products and services, biodevices, genetic tests and precision animal health technology.

• The platform business partner GMS CapEx procurement is a new role responsible for the establishment of a new Global CAPEX Procurement function within Global Manufacturing and Supply.
• The position will report directly to the Global Head GMS CapEx procurement who sits on the Global Procurement & External Supply Leadership Team.
• You will work with the Global Head of GMS CapEx Procurement and other new members of the team to define roles and responsibilities as well as the organizational setup; you will also determine how to business partner with all of our 28 manufacturing sites around the globe.
• In this role you will be responsible for business partnering activities across the enterprise but with specific responsibility for one of the 2 manufacturing platforms (Biopharmaceuticals or Pharma) within our growing internal manufacturing network.
• As a visionary and experienced business partner with significant global procurement experience within the CapEx area, you will partner with your colleagues responsible for establishing the categories within this new team providing best in class business partnering support to the platform lead, site leads as well as both the site and engineering teams and the individual manufacturing site heads within the platform.
• You will play a pivotal role in establishing the new team, driving transformation and together becoming trusted business partners to the organization
• You will be part of the extended leadership team of the platform, be the ambassador to the team of the GMS CapEx procurement function, and provide guidance and support where and when needed.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as main point of contact to the Platform Lead
• Maintain long term CapEx project investment plan and proactively support the platform in executing the plan according to agreed funding and internal approval processes.
• Act as liaison between the Platform / Site personnel including Global Engineering to coordinate support from the category managers (especially for projects spanning multiple categories)
• Project tracking to ensure all sourcing/procurement tasks are progressing within the required timelines and ensure capital governance compliance
• Provide guidance to category managers to ensure projects are prioritized in coordination with other Platform Business Partners
• Support Category Managers with contract/price negotiations as needed 
• Managing the global project portfolio within your category of expertise
• Support development and deployment into the platform category strategy incl. a preferred supplier catalogue
• Lead or oversee the end-to-end strategic sourcing process – contract negotiation, supplier evaluation, selection process, business relationship management and performance assessments and metrics to realize externalized capabilities and cost efficiencies in close alignment with the category managers
• Provide best in class procurement and commercial support to the GMS capex portfolio securing best terms and conditions for Zoetis while at the same time securing project delivery within agreed budget and timeline
• Build strong business relationships to key internal stakeholders, including manufacturing platform leads, manufacturing site heads, project managers, the manufacturing strategy/capital planning team, global engineering, finance, legal and the global procurement community
• Define and implement category structure and strategies supporting the assets already installed and new projects/assets to come
• Define and lead total value of ownership initiatives across your category incl. standardization projects including sustainability aspects across your category incl. deal structuring, contracts and negotiations
• Proactively drive continued optimization opportunities to processes, systems and lowering the total value of ownership within existing assets and new projects/assets
• Strong ability to develop, implement and deliver on the savings pipeline based on all available data from the capex database as well as global benchmarks, feedstocks, market conditions and experience.

Role Competencies:

• The ideal candidate for the role will be a seasoned global capex procurement colleague who is a high performer setting ambitious yet realistic targets for own category.
• You have a proven track record of developing and implementing the category strategy, bringing in the right suppliers in alignment with the values and behaviors of Zoetis and continuously deliverin