Senior Procurement Manager

Our team (Procurement Buying Goods & Services) has single accountability for the global Strategy, Design, Governance and Improvement roadmap of the end to end BG&S processes and operations. The process impacts 400+ Procurement employees, 15,000 shoppers and 38,000 suppliers across Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management, Master Data, Requisition, Purchase Order, Invoice and Payment processes.

The Buying Goods & Services Transformation programme has pointed out that for a good employee experience, it is critical to define the adequate strategy and manage the buying channel content as per specificities of the region. Once buying content and employee shopping experience is fluid, it will increase the compliance for the requesters, suppliers, procurement & operations.

• Implement the buying channel vision to enable 'shoppable content' in the Ariba Guided Buying module by partnering with Procurement category managers and business stakeholders
• Be responsible for optimization and activation of buying channels per category
• Optimize internal or third party solutions available to procurement and requisitioners (e.g. catalogues, marketplaces, tail spend management solutions).
• Establish and monitor KPIs and regular governance to ensure buying channels are optimized, to identify opportunities to increase procurement value and/or simplify the requisitioning experience for stakeholders.
• Solicit the Voice of the Customer (utilising Communities of Practice where available) and operate a continuous improvement cycle for the buying channel management (i.e., monitor, improve, monitor, adjust)
• Drive change and adoption within the shopper and regional/Global Procurement teams.
• Support strategic initiatives for Procurement programs on the content of the BG&S process & systems, such as Mergers or Acquisitions.
• Partner closely with the Buying Goods & Services GPOs and head of Buying Goods and Services.

Qualifications & Skills:

• University degree
• 5+ years of experience inprocurement
• 2+ years of experience in and broad knowledge across the end-to-end Source to Procure processes and system functionality
• Experience working with multi-functional teams – including managing senior stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – fluent English.

• Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
• Contract of employment
• Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit)
• Life insurance and pension plan
• Company car or car allowance
• Longtimeincentives
• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible counterparts
• Sports cards (Multisport)
• Possibilities of development within the role and company's structure
• Personalized learning approach (mentoring, online training' platforms: Pluralsight, Business Skills, Harvard Manage Mentor, Skillsoft and external training)
• Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions, short Fridays option, health & well-being activities)
• Supportivecommunity and integrationevents
• Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruits everyday
• Free car and bike parking, locker rooms and showers.

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