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Senior Category Manager Procurement/external manufacturing (Hybrid)
A leading European specialist pharmaceutical company that has been formulating and producing transformative medicines to patients for over a century.
The Senior Category Manager will be responsible for creating and reviewing purchasing strategies for assigned spend categories, ensuring effective cross-site implementation with cross-functional teams. This role will oversee the entire procurement process, including sourcing, tendering, negotiation, and contracting, while setting and measuring value-driven targets to ensure optimal performance.
A key focus will be managing relationships with stakeholders and suppliers, assessing performance, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, the Senior Category Manager will review and recommend process improvements, champion innovation, and lead change initiatives, while providing training and coaching to the purchasing team and stakeholders to foster ongoing learning and development.
Initiate, encourage and implement new and innovative approaches to problem solving, project delivery and continuous improvement
• Facilitate the creation and delivery of the company culture and participate in purchasing process development and team leadership activity
• Benchmark current cost levels and KPIs, define purchasing strategies and lead purchasing projects/initiatives to the most effective and successful outcome
• Deliver against and improve upon key objectives of cost, service, quality and other targets
• Initiate, encourage and implement new and innovative approaches to problem solving, project delivery and continuous improvement
• Facilitate the creation and delivery of the company culture and participate in purchasing process development and team leadership activity
A proven track record in delivery of effective category management in a multi-site, tactically driven environment is essential.
• There is some European travel (approximately one trip per month).
• A second European language is sought after but not a pre-requisite.
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