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Strategic Buyer for Global Procurement

2 months ago


Deeside, United Kingdom ConvaTec Full time

About ConvaTec:

ConvaTec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Group revenues in 2022 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

About the Role:

This is a key role within the Global Procurement function, driving a high-performance culture and setting the standard for excellence. We are looking for an ambitious procurement specialist, to join the Packaging & Sterilisation Category Management Team within Global Procurement with focus on external sterilisation across the ConvaTec product portfolio. This would include key interfaces with external suppliers to ensure capacity availability, Manufacturing & Supply Chain to ensure timely forecasting, the Advanced Operations team on New Product Development (NPD) and implementing collaborative cross-functional initiative workshops across all methods, modalities and cycles resulting in a cohesive, long-term Category Strategy.

This role is 100% focused on supporting surety of supply and optimisation across Ostomy Care, Advanced Wound Care, Continence Care and Infusion Care.

Your Responsibilities:

  1. Become the procurement SME in the assigned category: global sterilisation services
  2. Analyse complex information/data to drive to decisions and or actions
  3. Prepare and execute large RFI/RFQ to support benchmarking exercises and category strategy development
  4. Manage service agreements monitoring their correct implementation and execution; support the Senior Category Manager with the preparation for new contract negotiation
  5. Manage supply availability for assigned capacity to meet existing production and NPD project timeline and deliverables
  6. Ensure effective communication channels between operational contacts and key suppliers to improve throughput, capacity optimisation and cross-validation activities
  7. Utilise internal resources and supplier data to develop Excel planning tools, lead measures and supplier performance metrics
  8. Drive cross-functional initiative workshops to establish a pipeline of optimisation to mitigate category constraints and supplier under-capacity
  9. Attend project review meetings and report status where relevant to the Category, identify risks and potential impacts on project timeline with associated mitigation options
  10. Work closely with the Category Manager/Procurement Director responsible for the supplier/category commercial relationship
  11. Drive supplier initiatives and business review meetings with assigned suppliers as part of Global Procurement Supplier Relationship management (SRM) programs
  12. Anticipate risks and supply issues and proactively taking actions to prevent occurrence
  13. Escalate risks and supply issues and resolve with the appropriate sense of urgency
  14. Build strong relationships across multiple functions (R&D/T&I, PMO, Advanced Operations, Supply Chain, Global Procurement) and with assigned suppliers, clear written and verbal communications
  15. Develop in-depth understanding of the internal and external capacities and constraints within the assigned Category including Financial aspects of the sterilisation services

About You:

  • Ambitious procurement specialist with 5 years + working within a similar buyer role (preferably in a similar regulated industry)
  • Demonstrate the values and behaviours required to be successful in the role and support the ConvaTec 'Forever Caring' Promise
  • Experience in contract implementation and management
  • Excellent inter-personal and communication skills
  • Results and solution-oriented, with a focus on meeting required targets and deadlines
  • Able to operate independently on own deliverables while working in large cross-functional teams under time pressure
  • An understanding of initiatives development or requirements to deliver complex projects
  • Possess ability for analytical problem-solving and analysis/interpretation of complex problems, incorporating data gathered from a variety of sources/software tools
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate to a diverse audience, at multiple levels within the company using a variety of formats, presentations, emails, leading meetings, face-to-face, etc.
  • Able to promote and foster new ideas among internal and external stakeholders, challenging the status quo with sustainable solutions