Category Manager Procurement

vor 5 Monaten

Zug, Schweiz Abbott Laboratories Vollzeit

**About Abbott**

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Abbott Established Pharmaceuticals (EPD) is looking for a

**Category Manager Procurement**

**Primary Job Function**:

- Responsible for developing and implementing global supplier relationship strategies supporting all financial, operational, qualitative, and regulatory aspects.
- Develop supply market insight capability within the GPROC (Global Procurement) organization to increase knowledge of supply market dynamics, composition, trends and gain a comprehensive understanding of the market landscape and business models from a macro and micro economic perspective covering and Procurement. And utilize this to build and maintain Procurement strategies.
- Monitor supply market dynamics across peer organizations also for benchmarking purposes.
- Focus on achieving LRP Supplier Relationship Office related savings
- Drive annual performance improvements via strategy work and applicable metrics.
- Build up and maintain supplier relationship experience roadmap and ensure that processes meet and reflect EPD overall expectations
- Facilitate and communicate the global supplier landscape design, implementation, optimization and integration of the flow of materials and the related financials
- Assist in analyzing of all Supplier Cost within EPD SRO
- Ensure that impacts to operations driven by regulatory requirements are minimized and/or leveraged for competitive advantage
- Support the Snr Global Supplier Relationship Director to deliver specific strategic projects and initiatives

**Core Job Responsibilities**:

- Direct, plan and execute strategic GPROC programs, including re-engineering of supplier base on a global or regional basis. Focusing on Cost and Supply Chain continuity.
- Support optimization of the EPD GPROC supplier structure to expand our global supplier network, improve supplier compliance and efficiency
- Actively pursue a cross-functional culture of excellence to effectively implement global supplier programs
- Align programs with Operations and other EPD Functional areas on goals and objectives for the global supplier process
- Build and maintain close working relationships with and provide expertise to management to identify and realize improvements
- Effective cross functional and divisional stakeholder communication, collaboration and coordination
- Lead and/or support large scale and sustainable change management initiatives
- Be a key leader in influencing the evolving EPD GPROC supplier strategy
- Support global supplier integration and acquisitions
- Stay abreast of supplier related regulatory requirements, providing expertise to project teams to ensure cost-effective compliance

**Minimum Education**:

- Bachelor's degree and/or comparable educational background required. Graduate degree or professional certification is preferred (MBA, CPA, etc.)

**Minimum Experience/Training Required**:

- 5- 10 years of global supply chain and procurement experience
- Management experience (team and project management) preferably in the pharmaceutical industry
- Experience in managing large distribution and transportation budgets
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel, with high-level working knowledge of SAP R/3.
- Proficiency in English, other languages are advantageous

**Required Skills**:

- Excellent communication and concept selling skills
- Able to organize colleagues and actively promote the development of a cross-functional culture of excellence and shape the future direction of the business
- Proactive internal and external stakeholder communication, coordination and collaboration
- Implement agenda under rapidly changing circumstances in complex matrix environments
- Ability to quickly assess project developments and challenges by anticipating potential impacts for the business and resolving issues at initial stages
- Ability to work efficiently in complex and deadline-driven operations, not losing focus on accuracy and quality
- Proven track record to set priorities and adapt them accordingly at short notice
- Effectively work on multiple, unrelated projects simultaneously
- Ability to modify strategies according to market dynamics and internal requirements
- Global vision of the interactions in a demanding environment
- Provide expert guidance to SRO Managers and project teams, and allocates appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work
- Working understanding of the supplier industries
- Tenacity and drive needed to develop, sell and implement strategic supplier programs
- Work collaboratively with colleagues at all levels to achieve organizational goals

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