The business problem is to develop and execute category strategies for raw material categories, ensuring contract value realization and supplier performance through effective supplier management, in partnership with functional stakeholders at The Planet Group of Companies.
Requirements
- Demonstrated understanding of fundamental procurement process knowledge, including contracting, relationship management, market analysis, strategic planning, category value chain, etc.
- Specific expertise with Ariba and SAP preferred.
- Basic understanding of GMP manufacturing processes and regulations
- Experience with PowerBI, SharePoint Lists, Veeva, GEP Smart, Coupa/Ariba, Oracle/SAP
- Knowledge of category management, sourcing, and contract negotiations and supplier management.
- Experience participating on cross-functional and global teams.
- Able to develop solutions to complex problems and ensures solutions are consistent with organizational objectives.
Responsibilities
- Works in collaboration with key business functions, to drive category execution of a multi-year value creation project pipeline.
- Utilize spend analytic and market intelligence tools to identify innovation and efficiency opportunities which optimize total cost of ownership, drive cost savings, and mitigate risk.
- Maintain in-depth understanding of supplier capabilities, capacity, and overall financial stability, to effectively differentiate suppliers, in both current and future states, and support preferred supplier selection.
- Negotiate and manage supplier contracts, in partnership with Legal, which meet stakeholder / business needs.
- Manages data integrity within PowerBI, SharePoint Lists, Veeva, GEP Smart, Coupa/Ariba, Oracle/SAP (pricing, vendor master, taxonomy, ASL, supply allocation).
- Support new item creation process, ASL, SCNs, supplier investigations/deviations, and ensures CRs and Deviations are closed on time.
- Effectively execute sourcing process (RFx events) for goods and services, including supplier evaluation, selection and contracting.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, life sciences, finance, or supply chain.
- 3-5+ years procurement experience
- 1-3+ years in biotech / life sciences industry.
- Solid interpersonal, analytical and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability for contract negotiation.
