Regional Procurement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Category Management:
  • Contributes to development of global category strategy
  • Implements categories strategies and initiatives for his/her materials and services, ensuring alignment, compliance with Procurement guideline, as well as other internal/external process standards and delivery of required business performance in his/her region
  • Supports Due Diligence and new product development projects in line with F2W Divisional strategy
  • Provide market insight for other Pharma directs areas like API
• Stakeholder Management:
  • Understands business needs & engages with regional and local stakeholders to meet their priorities and requirements and therefore, builds effective, trustful, personal and virtual relationships with key regional/country stakeholders.
• Supplier Management:
  • Manages supply agreements & contracts. Monitors and controls contractual agreements and clauses over entire lifecycle and minimizes exposure to contractual risks in external relationships through usage of terms and conditions aligned with legal function.
  • Provides country-specific market intelligence to mitigate supply risk, gain competitive advantage and make better business decisions. Continuously conducts detailed supplier and supply market analysis at country level looking at facts and indicating market trends in supply base and technology.
  • Manages supplier relationships and implements supplier management principles in supply base, builds relationships and improves supplier performance. Incorporates company’s responsibility and commitment to sustainable business practices into category supplier relationships and ensures compliance through reports, audits and improvement plans.
    Sourcing:
  • Plans and executes sourcing events to create a competitive advantage, e. g. spend reduction, supply security and / or time-to-market. Prepares supplier negotiations, awards suppliers and conducts post negotiation debriefs.
  • Collaborates with external partners in Supplier Management and sourcing event execution
  • Translates results of sourcing strategies, initiatives and projects into handover documents to enable efficient processing.

Important for us:

• Master or equivalent degree in science, engineering or business management
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills combined with strong collaboration, influencing and communication competencies
• Solid background and expertise in Procurement, procurement processes and methodologies (e. g. strategic sourcing and supplier management)
• Russian market insights
• Change management and project management, financial acumen, analytical decision making, result orientation, strong negotiation skills, fully enforces procurement mandate to stakeholders
• Fluent English

Conditions:

• Monthly salary, meal allowance, corporate mobile coverage;
• Health insurance (+1 relative);
• Location – Moscow or Saint-Petersburg;
• Temporary non-staff vacancy