Regional Sourcing Manager

2 weeks ago


Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Novartis Full time

Bringing life-changing medicines to millions of people, Novartis sits at the intersection of cutting-edge medical science and innovative digital technology. As a global company, the resources and opportunities for growth and development are plentiful including global and local cross functional careers, a diverse learning suite of thousands of programs & an in-house marketplace for rotations & project work. With a strong medicines pipeline our current transformation will not just deliver growth for our business but continue to allow us to bring innovative medicines to patients quickly.
The Regional Sourcing Manager for Indirect categories is responsible for aligning global/region/local countries with respective Indirect categories and Procurement stakeholders (Business Partners) to implement Procurement projects to realized key productivity targets. Provides end-to-end category and project management in the areas of External Workforces & Recruitment, and other identified indirect categories as agreed.

**Your Responsibilities**:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

- Implement global category strategy at local level OR implement sourcing business plan for area of responsibility; directly deploys global category strategy at site level.
- Supervise the implementation of sourcing plans for the sub-category & deliver sub-category savings targets following engagement in the target setting process.
- Provide input into the overall Category segmentation and identification of key supplier relationships or may directly control purchases with respect to supplier choice, timing and commercial conditions on a local basis (may vary between divisions depending on way spend is controlled).
- Manage strategic sub-category supplier relationships, and implement consistent key performance indicators for the sub-category, and report on suppliers’ performance.
- Collect supplier information and feedback from Divisions, countries, sites, Category teams and Business Partners, and deliver Procurement Balanced Scorecard metrics for the relevant sub-category.
- Create, apply, complete and reviews major contracts for the sub-category and ensure that negotiated contracts are clearly communicated for the sub-category area and that they are consistently applied

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:

- Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve._

**Minimum requirements**

**What you’ll bring to the role**:

- 5 years of Procurement experience and contracting experience.
- Solid experience in navigating in global, matrix organizations and across geographies and cultures.
- Extensive experience in sourcing processes (e.g. RFI/RFQ), negotiation strategies, project management, demand management, data analysis, good communication and collaboration skills as well as market analysis capabilities to drive operational excellence.
- Strong capability in Ariba system and automation.
- Strong capability in data analysis.
- Strong communication skills and marketing diving capability
- Experience in Contingent labor is a must.
- Excellent spoken and written English. Japanese or Chinese as a plus.

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**Why Novartis?**
766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.
We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.
We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying
Imagine what you could do here at Novartis
Imagine what you could do at Novartis

**Division**

Operations

**Business Unit**

Procurement

**Country**

Malaysia

**Work Location**

Petaling Jaya

**Company/Legal Entity**

NOV MALAYSIA

**Functional Area**

Procurement

**Job Type**

Full Time

**Employment Type**

Regular

**Shift Work**

No

**Early Talent**

No



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