Your Key Responsibilities
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Strategic Sourcing & Partnerships
- Drive strategic sourcing initiatives and partnerships with CROs across geographies.
- Negotiate business associations, contracts, and cost structures for analytical services.
- Align and implement global category strategies at local/site level.
- Working across geography for swift collaboration and managing global suppliers and managing the risk
- Contract Management
- Lead negotiations for CDA, MSA, and task orders with suppliers.
- Finalize rate cards and ensure consistent application of contracts across business units.
- Manage strategic sub-category supplier relationships, implementing KPIs and monitoring performance.
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with scientific teams to understand requirements and translate them into sourcing solutions.
- Engage with partners via teleconferences or face-to-face meetings to ensure alignment.
- Provide input into category segmentation and supplier relationship strategies.
- Understand technical requirements and business need and able to prioritize the
- Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Supervise implementation of sourcing plans and deliver savings
- Collect supplier information and feedback to support procurement scorecard metrics.
- Resolve supplier performance risks/issues promptly to ensure end-user satisfaction.
- Support colleagues in continuous improvement through testing and evaluation of category initiatives.
- Operational Scope
- Oversee contracts and procurement spend across multiple business units (Pharma spend $25–35m$;).
- Manage distribution of marketing samples where applicable.
Essential Requirements
What you'll bring to the role:
- Education: MSc/ Pharm,/ MBA optional – Good business acumen
- Experience: 6–12 years in sourcing, procurement, or category management (preferably in pharma/analytical services).
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to collaborate across boundaries.
- Cross-cultural experience and agility in managing major organizational change.
- Proven expertise in operations management, project management, and execution.
- Business acumen with ability to represent the organization effectively.
Why Sandoz
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients 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, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us!
