Regional Category Manager-indirect Apac

2 weeks ago

Selangor, Malaysia Novartis Full time

**Summary**:

- To plan and lead Category initiatives for a clearly defined sub-category globally OR one category regionally OR all categories in one country OR multiple cross-divisional categories in one country; to develop the sub-category strategy as part of the wider Category Strategy; to lead proactive sourcing projects, specification definition and demand management, as well as manage sub-category-specific supplier performance and innovation activities.

**About the Role**:
Location - Malaysia #LI Hybrid

About the role:
The Regional Category Manager - Indirect APAC plans and leads all strategic aspects within the category of Indirect, across divisions, on a regional level and develops proposals for strategic business decisions. The role provides high value procurement solutions to the business and category strategies; support third party vendor selection, vendor development, technology management and performance measurement activities. The Regional Category Manager-Indirect ensures outstanding delivery of external services and products in the agreed Indirect categories to support projects and to realize year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process improvements in close collaboration with the partners in the business.

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Demand management - Responsible to ensure the right balance between business needs and Novartis’ strategy. Accountable to work with partners to identify the most efficient ways to deliver business objectives.
- Managing data analysis and reporting, e.g. analyzing spend, demand, supply markets and competitors. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies.
- Support definition and implementation of Procurement tools and processes.Hands on to Sourcing and supplier relationships management Driving the Source-to-Contract process including respective strategies, approaches and methods:

- Preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations. Adapting tactics from a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business and Procurement objectives.

What you’ll bring to the role:

- Strategy / Category management / Supplier management / Project management Understanding Procurement vision based on insights into procurement leading practices. Linking Procurement strategy to Novartis’ overall strategy and conveying it clearly to the organization.
- Expertise in Indirect Services procurement categories (External Workforce, Professional Services, HR Services, IT services). Understanding the respective category market levers, trends and main players as well as internal processes
- Compliance & risk management: understanding the critical metrics, processes and supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance (budget, payment, vendor PO, contract invoice, buying channel, etc.
- Advanced experience in building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the partner landscape and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks.
- Communicating clearly in writing and verbally. Conveying messages to partners at different level, engaging and convincing partners.
- Successful project execution by providing all external solutions in time / at the required quality / within budget as verified by the business. Strong preference for CIPS or CCW similar professional qualification

Desirable Requirements:

- University/Advanced degree in Business Administration/Economics/Engineering is required and master’s degree/other advanced degree in the supply chain management, business administration or similar is preferred.
- Preferably > 10 years of experience in Procurement or other related experience within the pharmaceutical industry, preferably in category management, supplier management, or related area, with a focus in the Indirect categories (Fleet, External Workforce, Professional Services, HR services, IT services) domain.
- 8 years of relevant business experience (industry specific experience) and with LANGUAGES preference - excellent spoken and written English along with Chinese or Japanese languages preferred.

Why Novartis?

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us

Division

Operations

Business Unit

CTS

Location

Malaysia

Site

Selangor

Company / Legal Entity

MY01 (FCRS = MY001) Novartis Corporation (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (19710100054)

Functional Area

Procurement

Job Type

Full time

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No

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