Head of Procurement

Vor 3 Tagen

Basel, Schweiz Sandoz International GmbH Vollzeit
Head of Procurement - Corporate Services (d/f/m) #S24

The Head of Procurement - Corporate Services plans and leads all strategic aspects of the Corporate Services domain (P&O, Finance, Consulting, Legal, External Workforce, Fleet, Insurance, etc.) and related outsourcing services globally. The role develops strategic business proposals and provides high-value, multi-year procurement solutions to the business and category strategies, and supports third-party vendor selection, development, technology management, and performance measurement.

This position ensures best-in-class delivery of external services and products, driving year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process enhancements in collaboration with business stakeholders. Reporting to the Chief Procurement Officer, the role holder is a member of the Sandoz Procurement Leadership Team (SPLT) and partners with the Chief Talent Officer and Chief Legal Officer and their teams.

Your main responsibilities:

  1. Drive and implement category strategic goals from the overall Procurement strategy.
  2. Derive game-changing strategies by defining clear category objectives, working with analytical data, business stakeholders, and market expertise. Align strategies to measurable targets and clearly convey them to the organization.
  3. Establish and manage a fit-for-purpose supplier ecosystem.
  4. Participate in and/or lead financial discussions. Apply financial knowledge to actively participate, e.g., in the budgeting process, including tax aspects in sourcing strategies and structuring sophisticated deals with ecosystem partners.
  5. Map the value chain, analyze it, and derive potential scenarios. This includes understanding and applying total cost of ownership and should-cost modeling.
  6. Compliance and risk management: support reports to determine appropriate compliance levels. Monitor end-to-end compliance (budget, payment, vendor PO, contract invoice, buying channel, etc.) and derive corrective actions to improve compliance.
  7. Support the definition and implementation of the Procurement process simplification, digitization, and automation program related to the category and beyond.
  8. Embed the Procurement ESG strategy in category management and sourcing.

Demand management

  1. Responsible for ensuring the right balance between business needs and Sandoz strategy.
  2. Accountable for working with stakeholders to identify the most cost-effective ways to deliver business objectives.

Sourcing and supplier relationships management

  1. Lead strategic supply partner relationships under the ‘Pioneering Together’ program to deliver exceptional and holistic benefits to Sandoz and ultimately to our patients.
  2. Execute the Source-to-Contract process, including respective strategies, approaches, and methods: preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations, and adapting tactics from a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business and Procurement objectives.

Business Partnering & Engagement

  1. Actively enlist senior leaders and their teams’ support within P&O, Legal and Finance functions.
  2. Achieve results by proactively building long-term, sustainable, and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape, and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks.

Change Management

  1. Act as impactful change leader within the PLT, for your team and with your stakeholders.
  2. Build rapport and secure buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders for major Procurement initiatives.
  3. Deliver change management and training to promote new processes and new tools and methodologies.
  4. Work within the current organizational complexity, with limited process commonality and uniformity of data.

What you’ll bring to the role:

  1. A university degree is required; a master’s degree or other advanced-level degree in Economics, Finance, or a related field is preferred.
  2. Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
  3. Over 15 years of relevant business experience in the Pharmaceutical, Generics, FMCG, or other low-margin industries.
  4. Candidates MUST bring more than 10 years of procurement expertise, including category management, strategic sourcing, and supplier management, with a particular focus on indirect services procurement and in-depth experience in employee services, external workforce management, finance, tax, and consulting domains.
  5. A proven track record of designing and delivering transformational initiatives that result in accelerated value creation within corporate procurement categories is essential.
  6. Experience with spend optimization programs such as Zero-Based Budgeting, including demand management and stakeholder mobilization.
  7. Demonstrated success in negotiating complex, multi-year outsourcing deals.
  8. Strong leadership skills, with extensive direct line management experience in an international environment.
  9. Proficient in managing geographically dispersed teams and experienced in working within virtual team structures.
  10. Skilled in senior stakeholder management.
  11. Additional languages.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged

The future is ours to shape

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

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

Accessibility and accommodation

Sandoz is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send an e-mail to claire.gratton@sandoz.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

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