Beschreibung
Harvey Nash is looking for a Divisional Category Manager for a 6 month project in Switzerland.
The role is a is a category-specific resource responsible for the procurement activities associated with Third Party Operations. The DCM plans and leads category initiatives within their host Division and is also be involved in cross-divisional category projects in agreement with the Global Category Lead. The DCM contributes to the global cross divisional Category Strategy and leads proactive sub-category procurement projects as well as managing sub-category supplier performance and compliance as defined in the supplier segmentation. The activities of the DCM may be both divisionally focused as well as cross-divisionally and/or country focused.
You are responsible for providing divisional sub categories or country input to inform the top-down target setting process the delivery of divisional savings targets for the relevant sub categories following engagement in the target setting process, as well as cross-divisional projects identified delivering the Procurement Balanced Scorecard metrics at the divisional level for the sub categories reporting against the Procurement Balanced Scorecard at the divisional level for the sub categories the collection of supplier, market, category and internal business data and information for the categories providing divisional input and validation to the global cross divisional Category Strategies including facilitating involvement of relevant stakeholders the communication and distribution of divisional elements of the Category Strategies to the relevant stakeholders in Division the development and execution of divisional and cross-divisional projects based on the Category Strategies and Annual Category Plans leading proactive cross-divisional sourcing for the categories as agreed by the NVD lead for Category Management Techops and the Head of Global Contract Manufacturing aggregating requirements from key end user stakeholders to inform the divisional and cross-divisional projects business stakeholder engagement and communication of the divisional project plan ensuring the projects agreed to within the Category Strategies and Annual Category Plans are staffed and executed on a timely basis and in line with the targeted goals leading proactive sourcing for the categories within the Division leading proactive cross-divisional sourcing for the categories as agreed by the NVD lead for category management tech ops and the Head of Global Contract Manufacturing providing input into the overall category segmentation and identification of key supplier relationships the implementation of consistent Key Performance indicators with suppliers as agreed in the supplier segmentation the management of Divisional strategic supplier relationships for the category as agreed in the segmentation collecting supplier information and feedback from Divisions, countries, sites, and category teams ensuring the Supplier Performance and Innovation Framework is executed for the category at a divisional level proactively managing innovation with strategic suppliers for the category within Division based on the Supplier Performance and Innovation Framework the creation, application, completion and review of major contracts for the Division providing input into the development of the Category Playbook to summarize the strategy, communicate key contacts and suppliers and guide the best practice approach to operational buying ensuring that all divisional associates involved in operational buying activities have access to the Category Playbook ensuring negotiated contracts are clearly communicated for the category to ensure they are consistently applied monitoring compliance and adherence to Novartis Procurement policies and procedures ensuring internal issues are addressed and resolved on a timely manner ensuring any supplier performance risks and issues are resolved on a timely basis to end user satisfaction Requirements
5-10 years of Procurement experience. Extensive experience in Category and demand management, as well as negotiating. Bachelor's degree required at a minimum, Master's degree preferred; in fields such as business administration, finance, law or a scientific or technical field. Strong preference for CIPS or similar professional qualification. Excellent English, other language desirable. Are you available immediately, have experience working within a Life Science company? Please send your complete CV (Word documents preferred) to (see below) For further details feel free to call me. I am looking forward to receiving your application.
