Senior Procurement Delivery Manager Full-time Job

The Position

As a Sr. Procurement Delivery Manager, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using your strong problem-solving, deep procurement skills, and category knowledge, you will drive collaboration with procurement and business stakeholders to build and implement comprehensive sourcing and spend management plans. Based on your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise of procurement and specific spend categories, you will proactively own, identify, and develop strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third-party spend requirements.

 

Working in procurement squads and networks, you will identify and deliver on opportunities to aggregate demand, drive buying channel automation, deliver day-to-day activities, and provide capacity, expertise, and oversight to projects/solutions.

 

Your key responsibilities include:

 

Your successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.

 

As a Sr. Procurement Delivery Manager, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, such as:

• Category subject matter expert conducting market and internal analysis to develop strategies, best practices, tactics, and vision for Roche to source and negotiate for third-party goods and services that satisfy stakeholder requirements.
• Procurement practitioner developing and executing category strategies and strategic initiatives by leveraging spend, category know-how, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management, and project management methodologies and skills to deliver on objectives and support the enhancement of the skills and knowledge of team members.
• Content and automation advocate ensuring category strategy into content and automated buying channels, guidelines, best practices, and communication materials that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency.

 

You bring the following skills, mindsets, and behaviors:

 

Skills 

You hold a university degree, with a business degree preferable. You have 7+ years of experience in global category management, strategic sourcing, complex procurement contracting, and operational category efficiency projects.

In addition, you have:

• Solid leadership experience with strong influential skills.

• Extensive procurement experience and deep specific category knowledge and knowledge of adjacent categories.

• Strong experience in procurement systems and processes.

• Ability in connecting and leveraging on all Procurement competencies

• Demonstrated project management skills.

• Business level fluency in English

 

Mindset and Behaviors

• You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.

• You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch. 

• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, focusing on continuous learning and improvement.

• You work with colleagues across procurement, business, and the broader Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.

• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

 

IMPORTANT:

When you apply as an external candidate from outside of Roche, please upload a resume/CV in English and a cover letter (if relevant) in one step.

 

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

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