Senior Procurement Specialist

5 months ago


Bathgate, United Kingdom Catalent Full time

Catalent is a global, high growth, public company and leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of the new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion is essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

We are looking for a **Senior Procurement Specialist - Process & Systems **to be the primary owner of the Catalent spend and market intelligence tools, ensuring the business has the relevant and accurate data to guide decision making to support the Global Procurement Organisation (GPO). This role will also own the Category Leadership, and will be own, develop, and deploy allocated sub-category strategies

This **Senior Procurement Specialist - Process & Systems** role is a remote role and can either be in travelling distance to Swindon or Bathgate. If Swindon based, then travel to Bathgate would be required occasionally.

**The Role**
- To be the primary owner of the Catalent spend management tool, working with the vendor and the GPO to further enhance and maintain the tool on behalf of the GPO.
- To have responsibility for the Global Procurement Saving Tracker (excel sheet) and working with Global Director to prepare global monthly savings data and KPI’s. Translating this data into meaningful information to share and facilitate monthly Segment/Division leadership operating mechanisms using said data.
- Responsibility for category leadership for the purchasing card program (Bank of America). Working with Corporate Finance, Finance Transformation to roll out the purchasing/virtual card program across Europe and, in partnership with site procurement, increase adoption throughout North America.
- Work with Central Procurement Operations Manager (Bathgate, UK) to develop and track capacity/demand plans, improve e-Sourcing tools and processes and on various GPO initiatives such as Paid on Time.
- To collaborate with corporate functions such as Finance Transformation, Finance Shared Service, Corporate Finance on various initiatives such as purchase card program, paid on time metrics.
- Demonstrate expertise in the development and utilization of the latest tools such as Power BI, Power Automate, to drive continuous process improvement in spend, RFx’s, contracting and scorecards/reports/communications, etc.
- To use utilize the E-Procurement system and stay familiar with current technology.
- Proven experience of procurement strategic sourcing experience, project management and strong analytical skills is a requirement.
- Travel and finance category management preferred.
- Global Operations, finance and matrix management experience preferred but not essential.
- Proven experience of development and implementation of category strategies
- A critical skill requirement is advanced analytical skills and being able to interpret data to share with stakeholders.
- Advanced excel, PowerPoint, skills are critical, and Power BI is desirable
- Excellent communications skills and a proven track record of engaging and working with stakeholders

**Why you should join Catalent**:

- Competitive Salary
- Pension
- Bonus
- Holiday
- Health Care
- Opportunities to join Employee Resource groups and be involved in charity events
- Remote role with accessibility to either Swindon or Bathgate.
- Some travel required from time to time

**Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career** Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

Visit Catalent Careers to explore career opportunities.

Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on any characteristic protected by local law.



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