Senior Procurement Specialist – Professional Services

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Senior Procurement Specialist - Professional Services (Global Role) Incirect Procurement.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with internal partners and use these relationships to support the implementation of category strategies, pipeline items and short/medium/long-term goals to support the ongoing delivery of value pipeline.
• Perform in depth spend analysis and market analysis on targeted areas of spend.
• Support your Manager or Sr Manager in the development and execution of annual savings plans.
• Develop RFI/RFPs and lead negotiations for key spend areas to achieve short-term and long-term savings targets.
• Support and if required lead cross functional teams to successfully drive complex sourcing projects.
• Register the projects pipeline in the appropriate sourcing tools and provide regular reporting as to their status and expected benefits.
• Lead and support the supplier selection, risk assessment and contract negotiation process for key projects as assigned by the Manager or Sr Manager.
• Communicate in a professional and effective way with internal and external stakeholders (senior management and cross functional teams) to ensure the necessary buy-in for the sourcing projects.
• Apply appropriate competitive cost and process benchmarks, financial analysis, and risk management techniques to solve complex issues.
• Support in the implementation of the defined sourcing strategy and preferred suppliers.
• Generate regular reports for the category lead concerning the categories of spend under your responsibility.
• Drive effective Supplier Relationship Management with key suppliers and monitor performance.
• Stimulate and support innovation by using the supplier base, regularly reviewing market developments, and mobilizing the appropriate internal network.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Economics, Engineering or related areas required.
• Intermediate or advanced English Minimum 3 years of category experience.
• With multinational organizations a plus.
• Proven experience in people, stakeholder, and project management.
• Ability to coordinate multiple parallel sourcing initiatives across different business groups.
• Strong analytic and negotiation skills.
• Business sense and ability to develop critical thinking.
• Experience in contracting includes but not be limited to Master Service Agreements, Statements of Work, Amendments and NDAs.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural and matrix environment.
• Understanding of Procurement standard processes, supply markets, suppliers and products.
• Understanding of pricing models and contracts terms.

What we offer:

• Permanent contract after 3-months'.
• Competitive salary.
• Annual bonus.
• Medical Care.
• Life Insurance.
• Christmas bonus.
• Co-financing for corrective glasses and lenses.
• Newborn baby bonus ( one-off benefit ).
• Employee Stock Purchase Program ESP.
• PPE program with very attractive conditions available for each employee after 3 months.
• Holiday allowance.
• Theater tickets at a reduced price.
• Educational support: fully covered language courses (English or other languages according to business needs), financial certifications (ACCA, CIMA).
• 2 additional days off (conditional).
• Employee referral program.
• Multisport card.
• Cafeteria-style plan ( 300 PLN net monthly).
• Employee referral program.
• Annual Award related to Baxter’s Global Cultural Values.
• Lifelong learning opportunity: Possibilities for development on a personal and professional level.
• Friendly atmosphere.
• Attractive office location, next to the PKP Powiśle station.
• PPE program with very attractive conditions available for each employee after 3 months.
• Working for a global pharma/med tech leader.
• Hybrid working model ( 3 days on Site).

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider