Head Procurement API

Sandoz India; Telangana; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz India is seeking a senior procurement leader to shape our India supply base with strategic supplier partnerships, drive multi‑million USD spend efficiency, and lead a high‑caliber procurement team across sites. You will align with global supplier strategies and steer cross‑functional efforts to optimize value, risk, and performance.

You will influence contracts, lead negotiations, and champion procurement system enhancements while tracking savings and KPIs in line with group policies.

Qualifications

• Develop supplier-centric strategies for India with multi‑million USD spend.
• Lead and develop the procurement team across sites.
• Negotiate and establish contracts to lower total cost while ensuring quality.

Responsibilities

• Direct the creation of sourcing strategies for India and engage key internal and external stakeholders.
• Oversee procurement negotiations and contracting to improve savings and service levels.
• Drive global supplier initiatives like tender management and inventory optimization.
• Coordinate implementation of procurement systems and track savings and KPIs.
• Provide leadership for budgets and team development within the procurement function.

Skills

Supplier strategy

Team leadership

Contracting & negotiations

Cost optimization

Stakeholder management

Procurement systems

Job description

• Develop and execute supplier-centric strategies for the India supply base with a spend of 125 million USD, including contracting, joint business development plans, growth roadmaps, risk mitigation, and exit strategies aligned with global procurement and business priorities.
• Lead and develop the procurement team, including the Category Manager API at the Kalwe site with a spend of ~85 million USD and the India sourcing office, ensuring alignment with global supplier strategies, strong performance, and effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Coordinate API launch strategies with Development and global launch Management, conduct benchmarking and lead negotiations and alternative sourcing execution to prior to launch to ensure launch competitiveness.
• Align with stakeholders on and engage in global supplier-related initiatives, such as tender management, cashflow improvement or inventory optimization.
• Direct the identification of sourcing strategies and identify, engage and manage the relationships with key internal stakeholders and external suppliers, and exert significant influence to drive Procurement projects.
• Direct the negotiation of agreements and lead the establishment of contracts to decrease total cost with specified quality and service levels and ensure supply security and ensure that savings are tracked according to group guidelines.
• Direct the implementation and utilization of Procurement systems and ensure consistent tracking of savings, benchmarking and other Procurement KPIs, according to group policies.
• Demonstrate thought leadership related to the identification, implementation and continuous improvement of sourcing best practices, systems and processes and policies alignment.
• Direct the preparation and finalization of Procurement investments plans and budgets. Oversee the coordination and development of Procurement teams. Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Sandoz products within 24 hours of receipt.

Major Accountabilities

• Develop and execute supplier-centric strategies for the India supply base with a spend of 125 million USD, including contracting, joint business development plans, growth roadmaps, risk mitigation, and exit strategies aligned with global procurement and business priorities.
• Lead and develop the procurement team, including the Category Manager API at the Kalwe site with a spend of ~85 million USD and the India sourcing office, ensuring alignment with global supplier strategies, strong performance, and effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Coordinate API launch strategies with Development and global launch Management, conduct benchmarking and lead negotiations and alternative sourcing execution to prior to launch to ensure launch competitiveness.
• Align with stakeholders on and engage in global supplier-related initiatives, such as tender management, cashflow improvement or inventory optimization.
• Direct the identification of sourcing strategies and identify, engage and manage the relationships with key internal stakeholders and external suppliers, and exert significant influence to drive Procurement projects.
• Direct the negotiation of agreements and lead the establishment of contracts to decrease total cost with specified quality and service levels and ensure supply security and ensure that savings are tracked according to group guidelines.
• Direct the implementation and utilization of Procurement systems and ensure consistent tracking of savings, benchmarking and other Procurement KPIs, according to group policies.
• Demonstrate thought leadership related to the identification, implementation and continuous improvement of sourcing best practices, systems and processes and policies alignment.
• Direct the preparation and finalization of Procurement investments plans and budgets. Oversee the coordination and development of Procurement teams. Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Sandoz products within 24 hours of receipt.

Why Sandoz?

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health.

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.

Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion

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

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