Category Head - Indirect Procurement - Pharma

Job Description and Position Overview:

Following are the key deliverable s of the position:

- Build category / categories assigned medium / long term procurement strategy and value drivers.

- Align with stakeholders and deliver the strategy implementation.

- Lead the team of buyers for the respective categories for buying consolidation, Strategic advantage, negotiations and timely delivery to users.

- Vendor development for the select categories to deliver long term strategic advantage in close coordination with the user departments.

- Lead / participate in the Cross Functional Teams to drive wide consensus and new ideas in line with the category strategic road map.

- Define cost reduction target for category through strategic procurement and deliver year on year.

- Carry out spent analytics for the category spent and thus arrive at potential opportunities and action plans.

- Project Manage the agreed short/ medium and long term plans.

- Ensure compliance to company policy and procedures and help build / improve the control environment.

Desired Skills / Candidate Profile:

- Strong communication and influencing skills.

- Robust knowledge of the Procurement fundamentals.

- Strong analytics and ability to carry out complex regression /or spent cube modelling.

- Project management skills.

- Negotiation expertise.

- Strong people skills and comfort to work in cross functional teams.

- Demonstrated success and in Indirect/ direct procurement working experience of minimum 4-5 years.

Please Note:

- MBA - Operations from Premium institute and

- Working experience in FMCG or Pharma Industry required.