Major accountabilities:

• Create and align country/cluster strategic goals to the overall Procurement strategy and implement global category strategy at local level OR implement sourcing business plan for area of responsibility; directly deploy global/regional/local category strategy at site level.
• Accountable productivity/cost efficiency targets in their area of responsibility by ensuring the implementation of sourcing plans for the sub-category & deliver sub-category savings targets following engagement in the target setting process.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders serving as key contact for stakeholders in their area of responsibility. Build effective relationships of mutual trust and understanding.
• Manage strategic sub-category supplier relationships and implement consistent key performance indicators for the sub-category, and report on suppliers’ performance.
• Manage and build effective relationships with key suppliers in their area of responsibility to drive value for Novartis through cost effectiveness and access to innovation. Implement consistent key performance indicators for the sub-category, ensuring that any supplier performance risks and issues are resolved on a timely basis to end-user satisfaction.
• Provide input into the overall Category segmentation and identification of key supplier relationships or may directly control purchases with respect to supplier choice, timing and commercial conditions on a local basis (may vary between divisions depending on way spend is controlled).
• Collect supplier information and feedback from Divisions, countries, sites, Category teams and Business Partners, and deliver Procurement Balanced Scorecard metrics for the relevant sub-category.
• Ensure effective communication between the different Procurement functions, such as Operations, Capability centers, global/regional category management, compliance.
• Create, apply, complete and review major contracts for the sub-category and ensure that negotiated contracts are clearly communicated for the sub-category area and that they are consistently applied.

Key performance indicators:

• Performance in accordance with defined KPIs -Value Delivery (Financial) & Customer Delivery (service provision)

Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:

• Collaborating across boundaries.
• Cross Cultural Experience.
• Implementing Major Change across boundaries.
• Organization Scope; Scale and Complexity.
• Operations Management and Execution.
• Representing the organization.
• Project Management.

Skills:

• Internal And External Customer Needs Analysis & Satisfaction Studies.
• Negotiating.
• Root Cause Analysis And Problem-Solving.
• Vendor Management.

Languages :

• English & Mandarin.