Associate Director, Category Management

Randstad; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Regeneron is seeking an Associate Manager Indirect Category Management Procurement in Hyderabad to join our Global Procurement team in a hybrid work model. You will support strategy development, sourcing activities, supplier evaluation, spend analysis, and category enablement across IT, HR services, and travel & meetings.

You will collaborate with data and analytics teams, support RFI/RFQ/RFP processes, and help maintain category plans and documentation while promoting compliance and process

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field and progressive procurement experience.
• Experience in Pharma or BioPharma preferred.
• Strong knowledge of category management, sourcing, negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement indirect category strategies across IT, Professional Services, HR Services, and Travel & Meetings.
• Support market and spend analyses, supplier evaluation, and risk management activities.
• Maintain standardized templates, decks, and repository materials for consistency.
• Collaborate with data teams to identify trends and strategic insights.
• Facilitate RFI/RFQ/RFP processes, including response collection and analysis.
• Summarize supplier responses, pricing, and evaluations for decision making.
• Maintain category plans, opportunity analyses, and supplier documentation in the central repository.
• Support compliance, audits, and procurement process improvements.

Skills

Category management

Sourcing

Negotiations

Data analysis

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Oracle ERP

Oracle S2P

Zycus

Sievo

GEP

Ariba

Job description

Build our future together:

At Regeneron, we use science and innovation to develop life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases. We are seeking an Associate Manager Indirect Category Management Procurement to join our Global Procurement team, supporting our Indirect Procurement categories in a hybrid work model. In this role, you will support category strategy development, sourcing activities, supplier evaluation, spend analysis, and category management enablement while collaborating with category teams, data and analytics teams, partners, and suppliers. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing, science-driven organization making a meaningful difference to patients worldwide.

When & where:

Hyderabad, India (Hybrid)

Discover your role:

• Support the definition and implementation of indirect category strategies across Information Technology, Professional Services, Human Resources Services, and Travel & Meetings categories.
• Support category teams in developing and implementing category strategies through market analysis, spend analysis, supplier evaluation, and risk management activities.
• Maintain standardized category management templates, strategy decks, stage gate presentations, and repository materials to drive consistency across category teams.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to employ internal and external data sources to identify trends, opportunities, and strategic insights.
• Facilitate sourcing activities by supporting Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Quotation (RFQ), and Requests for Proposal (RFP) processes, including response collection and analysis.
• Summarize sourcing and supplier relationship management outcomes through comparative analysis of supplier responses, pricing, and evaluations.
• Maintain category plans, opportunity analyses, presentations, supplier relationship management materials, and other category documentation within the central repository.
• You bring a collaborative and improvement-focused attitude while supporting compliance activities, audit requests, procurement process enhancements, and category development initiatives.

This role requires:

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field of study and progressive experience in procurement; experience within Pharma or BioPharma preferred.
• Strong knowledge of category management principles, including sourcing, procurement, planning, supplier interactions, and negotiations.
• Working knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as Oracle.
• Experience with Source-to-Pay (S2P) platforms including Oracle, Zycus, Sievo, GEP, Ariba, or similar platforms preferred.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for communication, presentations, and data analysis.
• Experience with spend analytics software preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills with the ability to present effectively to customers.