Director, Direct Procurement, Filters

Switzerland, Basel
Switzerland, Visp

Director, Direct Procurement, Filters

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Drive category expertise through an understanding of required technologies, geographical spread, supply markets & trends, cost drivers and the impact to Lonza’s business model
- Work closely with key stakeholders to support unique selling positions ahead of the competition, provide effective sourcing strategies that enable new business opportunities and innovation, step change improvements in quality, service at competitive cost.
- Develop supplier relationships that leverage supplier capabilities, improve supply continuity and reduce total cost of ownership.
- Effectively prioritize work incorporating Supply Chain, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Finance and Business Unit requirements.
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Category Management & Strategic Procurement**: Maintain market knowledge, build a strong and reliable supply base as differentiator to competition, drive tendering, negotiation, contracting and sourcing for raw materials. Identify and coordinate approval of promising sources of supply to support innovative solutions ahead of competition, lead key suppliers relationship management and development activities, review with sites key suppliers performances and impact to the Lonza network, and support sites to resolve complaints and quality issues.
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Supply Assurance**: drive awareness of active supply issues clarifying business impact, lead resolution plans, deeply assess supply base and identify risks of supply disruption or competitiveness gaps, develop mitigation plans, coordinate with appropriate key stakeholders in case of major issues (crisis management), ensure business continuity
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Business Stakeholder Management**: Own the interface to business leaders concerning raw materials. Provide expertise in the relevant raw materials markets and advise on new business opportunities. Engage as needed with other internal stakeholders (corporate functions or sites)
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Procurement Processes, tools and Systems**: support global procurement initiatives and policies, implementation of procurement tools, processes and guidelines, roll out and implement key supplier scorecard
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Leading a team**: leading a small team of strategic buyers located across our sites

Key requirements:

- University Degree B.Sc. Economics / SCM / Procurement or similar
- Extensive experience within category management / Procurement within the pharma or life sciences industry or similiar
- Fluency in English is required, other European Languages (German) is a plus
- Acts and behaves as role model to leverage entire organization

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.

**Reference: R43716**:
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