Category Manager

3 days ago

Hatfield, United Kingdom Gi Group Full time

Category Manager
French Speaking
Permanent
Excellent Benefits
Main purpose of the job:
Main duties/responsibilities:
Procurement
- Lead Business Effectiveness/ Procurement (BE) for allocated affiliates or category, achieving agreed annual savings targets, e.g., via
tendering
or smaller negotiations whilst ensuring company SOPs and local practices e.g., committees are adhered to by working with Finance, Legal,
Regulatory teams etc.
- Analyse, understand and co-ordinate procurement markets and internal stakeholders to ensure that Value For Money is achieved.
- Control and monitor expenditure to ensure VFM is maximised utilising spend analyses from SAP/ Ariba
- Participate and where appropriate, lead the introduction of cross functional working across Procurement services that will deliver a more
focused, knowledge creating and cost-effective service.
- Rationalise the supplier base and tail spend to drive better commercial terms across EMEA.
- Select appropriate suppliers to be added to Preferred Supplier list, who can deliver the service that best meets the Procurement strategy
and addresses agreed business needs.
- Construct, negotiate and achieve optimal 'Commercial' terms and conditions that enable the Legal team to agree 'contractual' terms and
conditions optimal to supplier engagement.
- These should achieve cost, delivery, quality, and service targets as required by the business through liaising and agreeing content with
interested functions and stakeholders.
- Provide tendering/ negotiation support to EMEA/ Global teams, as and when required.
Business Effectiveness
- Maintain close & effective working relationships with Procurement colleagues and internal customers.
- Work with the business to determine current and future needs to determine procurement strategy, reviewing as necessary
- Provide commercial expertise to Procurement stakeholders.
- Carry out Strategic Analyses on Procurement markets and determine implementation criteria.
- Define, propose, and implement strategies specific to BE services that adhere to the overall company mission.
- Sell strategies to stakeholders to ensure commitment, buy in and adherence to the Procurement SOPs & policies.
- Define and implement a Supplier rationalisation programme where required for each Procurement subcategory that will improve
performance,
costs, and administration.
- Support and manage appropriate digital systems for purchasing and travel e.g., Ariba, Concur
Supplier Management
- Champion, manage and optimise services 'owned' by BE internally, e.g., translation and travel services
- Drive the end-to-end Vendor Management process, in onboarding and qualifying supplier base chasing and providing support to
vendors
as necessary and liaising with internal assessors as required
- Lead Supplier Relationship/ Resilience Management (SRM) projects across the business identifying actions to the business' benefit through
Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR)
- Implement effective supplier performance measures by monitoring supplier performance shortfalls and proposing countermeasures to
achieve
the required targets and enable continuous improvement.
Procurement
to continually improve the service being provided focussing on the minimisation of non-value adding activity.
- Gather feedback from stakeholders for the Business Effectiveness/ Procurement (BE) services from the business ensuring that views and
suggestions made by internal stakeholders are considered and incorporated into Procurement strategies and tactics where appropriate as
agreed with Director.
- Ensuring supplier selection follows Standard Operating Procedures
Qualifications, education, and language requirements:

- Qualified to degree level or equivalent.
- Procurement qualification or equivalent.
- Excellent written and spoken French
- Good written and spoken Spanish.
Experience Required:

- Experience and knowledge of Ariba
- Demonstrated experience in Procurement with some of this at Category Manager/Senior Buyer level.
- Knowledge and experience of current purchasing best practice.
- Experience in buying Professional Services in a Blue-Chip environment.
- Experience in Pharmaceutical procurement, ideally internationally
Gi Group Pharmaceuticals provides a tailored Account Managed Service and dedicated Pharmaceutical recruitment team and partners with many different Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology clients throughout the globe and the United Kingdom.

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