Global Category Manager Automation & Robotics

Novartis; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Insurance

Flexible benefits

Time off

Retirement plan

Health and wellbeing

Career development opportunities

Ways of working

Job summary

Novartis in Hyderabad, India is seeking a Global Category Manager Automation & Robotics to translate global procurement strategies into actionable sub-category plans. You will lead sourcing initiatives, drive supplier performance, negotiate major contracts, and shape value delivery within a complex, global environment.

The role requires senior experience in procurement, category management, and stakeholder collaboration across countries and sites.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in procurement, strategic sourcing or category management for complex initiatives.
• Experience translating global strategies into sub-category plans and sourcing actions.
• Proven ability to lead supplier relationships and improve performance.
• Commercial acumen including negotiations and major contract management.
• Track record delivering procurement savings and value metrics.

Responsibilities

• Translate global category strategy into sub-category plans, sourcing programs and implementation.
• Lead sourcing initiatives in Automation & Robotics delivering savings and value targets.
• Contribute to overall category strategy including supplier segmentation and planning.
• Manage major contracting activities with clear communication and consistency.
• Collect supplier feedback from divisions, countries, sites and partners.
• Support procurement balanced scorecard metrics and financial/value measures.
• Oversee budgets and resource allocation, ensuring priority projects are resourced.
• Develop and mentor direct reports and, where applicable, indirect team members.

Skills

Strategic procurement

Category management

Sourcing & negotiations

Supplier relationship management

Contract management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Description Summary

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Location: Hyderabad, India

Lead strategic procurement initiatives across the Automation & Robotics category, building effective supplier partnerships and delivering sustainable value within a complex global environment.

Are you ready to shape strategic procurement within a global organisation undergoing meaningful transformation?

As Global Category Manager Automation & Robotics, you will translate broader procurement strategies into effective category plans and sourcing initiatives. You will drive supplier performance, value delivery and contracting activities while partnering with divisions, countries, sites, Category teams and Business Partners.

This is an opportunity to play an important role in an evolving global Category Management structure, strengthening how Procurement operates and partners with its internal customers.

Job Description

Key responsibilities

• Translate global divisional Category strategy into effective sub-category strategies, sourcing plans and implementation activities.
• Lead sourcing initiatives within Automation & Robotics and deliver agreed procurement savings and value targets.
• Contribute to the overall Category strategy, including supplier segmentation, strategic supplier identification and business planning.
• Lead strategic supplier relationships, establish consistent performance indicators and address supplier performance risks and issues promptly.
• Lead major contracting activities within the sub-category, ensuring negotiated agreements are clearly communicated and consistently applied.
• Gather supplier information and feedback from divisions, countries, sites, Category teams and Business Partners.
• Support the delivery of relevant Procurement Balanced Scorecard metrics and other measures of financial and customer value.
• Manage budgets and resource allocation within the area of responsibility, ensuring priority projects are appropriately resourced and delivered.
• Manage the performance and development of direct reports and contribute to the development of indirect team members, where applicable.

Essential Requirements

• Significant professional experience in procurement, strategic sourcing or Category Management, with responsibility for complex sourcing initiatives.
• Experience developing and implementing category or sub-category strategies and sourcing plans.
• Strong experience managing strategic supplier relationships and supplier performance.
• Demonstrated commercial capability, including supplier negotiations and the management of significant contracts.
• Experience delivering procurement savings, value and relevant performance measures.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions, countries, sites and business areas.
• Experience managing complex projects, priorities, budgets and resources within a procurement environment.
• Leadership capability, including experience managing and developing teams and talent.

Desirable Skills

• Category experience: Experience or demonstrated exposure to industrial or laboratory automation, robotics, control systems, system integration or related technology and engineering categories is preferred.
• Technology-focused sourcing: Familiarity with sourcing technology-intensive solutions and considering lifecycle cost, scalability, interoperability and supplier or technology dependency would be an advantage.
• Supplier and stakeholder environment: Experience working with automation suppliers, technology partners, engineering teams or manufacturing stakeholders, together with an interest in emerging technologies, is preferred.

Benefits & Rewards

At Novartis, we're committed to reimagining medicine together and rewarding the people who make it happen.

The rewards of being part of our team go far beyond base pay and incentives. We offer a variety of competitive benefits to help you thrive personally and professionally.

Our India benefits offering includes a range of programmes supporting compensation, insurance and flexible benefits, time off, retirement, health and wellbeing, ways of working, and career and development opportunities.

Further details regarding your applicable benefits and compensation package will be provided during the application process.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and Accommodation

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