Procurement Manager (INTERIM)

Job role

This is an exciting opportunity to partner with the R&D units to drive their research efforts forward to develop medicines for patients. You will have accountability for a global spend category (may be single or multiple SET areas). Partnering with stakeholders you will develop long term strategic plans for the entire spend area. Managing customer and supplier relationships to ensure that Category Strategies are highly aligned to current and future Business needs and that the supply base can support these strategies. Overseeing implementation of the category plan to ensure that the underpinning process improvement and procurement activities deliver the expected business value in accordance with the strategic plans.

Key responsibilities

• Oversees implementation of category plans to ensure that the underpinning process improvement and procurement activities deliver the encouraged business value in accordance with the strategic plans

• Supports Director/ Associate Director in the development of long-term strategic plans for agreed scope of spend area

• Supports the Director/ Associate Director in strategic relationship management (customer and supplier) – to ensure that Market & Category Strategies are highly aligned to current and future Business need and that the supply base can support these strategies.

• Works with relevant Director/ Associate Director(s) to ensure a fully integrated and customer-aligned category plan

• Coordinates the introduction of new and modified products and services with appropriate departments

• Advises on contracts and agreements for the supply of complex products and services with new and existing suppliers

• Develops, evaluates, or manages internal and external relationships with suppliers and other cross-functional teams

Essential experience & skills

• Degree level or equivalent qualifications

• Project management, change management and people management skills

• Ideally a working knowledge of the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry

• Strong track record of technical expertise in Procurement, creating value for the organisation through developing industry leading category strategies

• Good communication skills, an ability to influence others and someone who has awareness of how to work across cultures

• Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations

• Curious mindset and a desire to challenge yourself to want to continuously learn and develop

Do you have expertise in, and have a passion for Procurement? Would you like to be part of a high performing R&D procurement team passionate about delivering real value to the R&D units to ensure they optimally deliver their strong and ambitious R&D pipeline? Are you ready to be part of a company that has set bold sustainability targets, is data driven, follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, we can´t wait to hear from you.

For more information please contact Teresia Lönn or Leif Olsson, see contacts to the right.