*summary*:
the role is accountable for partnering with a global procurement tower to manage a project portfolio, developing procurement vision and strategy, mapping the value chain, understanding cost models, and leveraging expertise in market trends and internal processes to derive innovative strategies.
*about the role*:
- responsible for building the networking framework, promoting shared rules of engagement, centralizing and maintaining knowledge base for assigned categories, standardizing regulatory documentation, and ensuring effective management of supplier relationships.
- managing data analysis such as analyzing spend, demand, supply markets, and competitors. Extracting and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage, e.g., in category strategies.
- achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable, and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape, *business, targets, organization and footprint within novartis,* and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks, providing supplier management training and expertise leading to improvement and transformation activities.
*minimum requirements*:
- university/advanced degree is required. Master’s degree/other advanced degree (desirable)
- 5-10 years of relevant business experience (industry-specific experience).
- excellent spoken and written english
- strong project management experience.
- effective communication. Finance management
- data driven. Be able to deliver solutions using data analytics
- experience in managing diverse teams.
*key performance indicators*:
- performance in accordance with defined kpis -value delivery (financial) & customer delivery (service provision)
*work experience*:
- collaborating across boundaries.
- cross cultural experience.
- major change.
- organization scope; scale and complexity.
- operations management and execution.
- representing the organization.
- project management.
*skills*:
- internal and external customer needs analysis & satisfaction studies.
- negotiating.
- root cause analysis and problem-solving.
- vendor management.
*languages*:
- english.
Division
operations
business unit
cts
location
mexico
site
insurgentes
company / legal entity
mx06 (fcrs = mx006) novartis farmacéutica s.a. de c.v.
Functional area
procurement
job type
full time
employment type
regular
shift work
no
*accessibility and accommodation*:
novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.