Novartis
Hyderabad, Telangana, India Posted 4d ago
At Novartis, you will lead strategic procurement initiatives across the Automation and Robotics category, building effective supplier partnerships and delivering sustainable value within a complex global environment.
Key Responsibilities
Translate global divisional Category strategy into effective sub-category strategies, sourcing plans and implementation activities.
Lead sourcing initiatives within Automation and Robotics and deliver agreed procurement savings and value targets.
Contribute to the overall Category strategy, including supplier segmentation, strategic supplier identification and business planning.
Lead strategic supplier relationships, establish consistent performance indicators and address supplier performance risks and issues promptly.
Lead major contracting activities within the sub-category, ensuring negotiated agreements are clearly communicated and consistently applied.
Gather supplier information and feedback from divisions, countries, sites, Category teams and Business Partners.
Support the delivery of relevant Procurement Balanced Scorecard metrics and other measures of financial and customer value.
Manage budgets and resource allocation within the area of responsibility, ensuring priority projects are appropriately resourced and delivered.
Requirements
Significant professional experience in procurement, strategic sourcing or Category Management, with responsibility for complex sourcing initiatives.
Experience developing and implementing category or sub-category strategies and sourcing plans.
Strong experience managing strategic supplier relationships and supplier performance.
Demonstrated commercial capability, including supplier negotiations and the management of significant contracts.
Experience delivering procurement savings, value and relevant performance measures.
Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions, countries, sites and business areas.
Experience managing complex projects, priorities, budgets and resources within a procurement environment.
Leadership capability, including experience managing and developing teams and talent.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience or demonstrated exposure to industrial or laboratory automation, robotics, control systems, system integration or related technology and engineering categories.
Familiarity with sourcing technology-intensive solutions and considering lifecycle cost, scalability, interoperability and supplier or technology dependency.
