Specialist, General Procurement

Novartis India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis India is seeking a category management specialist to own one category in one country and support the implementation of Category Strategy and Annual Category Plan. You will help deliver projects and initiatives and execute Supplier Performance and Innovation; you will support Category leadership with day-to-day activities of Category management.

Key responsibilities include developing Category Strategy, deploying the sourcing plan, aggregating data for target setting, collecting supplier

Job description

Summary

To be responsible for one category in one country and support the implementation of Category Strategy and Annual Category Plan, deliver projects and initiatives, and execute Supplier Performance and Innovation; to support the Category leadership with the day-to-day activities of Category management.

About The Role

Major accountabilities:

• Support the development of the Category Strategy and the Annual Category Plan, as required by the Global Category Lead.
• Implement sourcing business plan for area of responsibility -Deploy actions within categories, support the development of Category targets, and deliver savings targets where appropriate -Support the aggregation of all Category level data across Divisions to inform the top-down target setting process.
• Support the collection of supplier, market, Category and internal business information at both the Category and sub-category levels.
• Assist the coordination of materials for supplier segmentation processes, as defined by the Novartis Supplier Performance and Innovation Framework and directed by the Global Category Lead.
• Supports the tracking and documentation of risk and issue management for the category.
• Facilitate contract management and execution (Cross-Divisional/Pharma spend
• Understand applied practice, concepts and process in one or more procurement disciplines (e.g. category management,negotiation, contracts, systems and processes, project or information management).
• Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)

Key performance indicators:

• Effectiveness & Efficiency -Value Delivery (Financial) & Customer Delivery (service Provision)

Why Novartis:

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