The Global Program Head Indirect Procurement Tech Ops , leads all strategic aspects within the tower of Tech Ops Indirect of, across sites and platforms, on a regional level and develops proposals for strategic business decisions.

The role provides high value procurement solutions to the business and category strategies; supports third party vendor selection, vendor development, technology management and performance measurement activities, ensures best-in-class delivery of external services and products in the categories under Tech Ops Site Indirect Procurement tower to support projects and to realize year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process improvements in close collaboration with the stakeholders in the business.

Major Accountabilities:

• Drive/Implement strategic goals from overall Procurement strategy / Ecosystem management within Tech Ops Site Indirect Procurement tower
• Deriving game-changing strategies by defining clear category objectives at site and platform level, working with analytical data, business stakeholders and market expertise. Aligning strategies to measurable target and clearly conveying them to the organization.
• Projecting the dynamics and impacts (e.g. mergers and acquisitions). Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies.
• Participating in and / or leading financial discussions. Applying financial knowledge to participate actively, e.g. in budgeting process, including tax aspects in sourcing strategies and structuring sophisticated deals with ecosystem partners.
• Mapping the value chain, analyzing it and deriving potential scenarios. Includes the understanding and application of total cost of ownership, and should cost modelling.
• Compliance & risk management: supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance (budget, payment, vendor PO, contract invoice, buying channel, etc.) and deriving corrective actions to improve compliance.
• Planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status.
• Support definition and implementation of Procurement tools and processes.
• Managing data analysis and reporting, e.g. analyzing spend, demand, supply markets and competitors. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies.

Minimum Requirements:

• University/Advanced degree is required.
• 12+ years of experience in large multinational organization.
• 5-10 years of relevant business experience (industry specific experience).
• Preferably > 10 years of experience in Procurement or other related experience within the Pharmaceutical industry, preferably in category management, supplier management, or related area.
• Strong project management or other leadership experience
• Master’s Degree/other advanced degree in the Business, Finance, Economics or similar is preferred.

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Operations

Innovative Medicines

Czech Republic

Prague

CZ02 (FCRS = CZ002) Novartis s.r.o

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Procurement

Full time

Regular

No