Job ID
360036BR
Feb 22, 2023
India

28,000 associates of more than 100 nationalities deliver high quality and affordable medicine on time, every time, safely and efficiently.

Job Purpose
The Category Manager Excipients & Chemicals plans and leads all strategic aspects within the category of Excipients & Chemicals, across divisions, on a Global level and develops proposals for strategic business decisions. The role provides high value procurement solutions to the business and category strategies; support third party vendor selection, vendor development, technology management and performance measurement activities. The Global Procurement Category Manager Excipients & Chemicals ensures best-in-class delivery of external services and products in the Excipients & Chemicals 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

Your key responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Implement category strategic goals from overall Procurement strategy / Ecosystem management
• 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.
• Mapping the value chain, analyzing it and deriving potential scenarios. Includes the understanding and application of total cost of ownership, and should cost modelling.
• 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.
• 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. Applying risk management processes including identifying and evaluating risks, and defining and executing a risk mitigation plan.
• 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.
• Maintaining and updating Procurement applications accordingly to the Procurement content (e.g. e-catalogs, user portal). Continuous improvement of procurement content and automation.
• Support definition and implementation of Procurement tools and processes.
• 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 Novartis 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.
• Proactive assessment of new ways of working, involving innovative scientific & technical solutions by identifying and onboarding the right suppliers.
• Manage relationships with 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.
• Successful project execution by providing all external solutions in time / at the required quality / within budget as verified by the business.
• Value Delivery - right-sized spending and projected savings in compliance with a meaningful guideline.Successful and measurable execution on efficiency programs (e.g. approval of new suppliers).
• Measurable and continuous process improvement & compliance assurance. Understanding the Procurement KPIs related to market insights, price and demand development as well as procurement's performance.

Diversity & Inclusion / EEO

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Minimum Requirements

What youll bring to the role:
EDUCATION:

• Masters Degree/other advanced degree in the Nature or Life Sciences, or Economics is preferred.
• 5-10 years of relevant business experience in large corporate organizations (industry specific experience is a plus).
• Ideally 3-7 years of experience in Procurement or other related experience (Technical operations, Supply chain,...) within the Pharmaceutical industry, preferably in category management, supplier management, or related area, with a focus in the Direct materials domain.
• Strong project management or other leadership experience.

Why Novartis?
766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while were proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend peoples lives.

We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the worlds toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!

Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!

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Division
Novartis Technical Operations
Business Unit
SMALL MOLECULES
Location
India
Site
Hyderabad, AP
Company / Legal Entity
Nov Hltcr Shared Services Ind
Alternative Location 1
Poland
Alternative Location 2
Slovenia
Functional Area
Procurement
Job Type
Full Time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No