**304327BR**
**Job ID:**
304327BR
**Job Description:**
20! That is the number of countries we are supporting across key markets to drive strategic procurement activities. This is a high impact game changer role aims to achieve best efficient cost management across these markets hence enabling the business to be productive and compliant.
**Your Responsibilities:**
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
Job Purpose:
The Procurement Category Manager - Corporate Services leads strategic aspects within the category of Corporate Services, across divisions, on a global / regional level and develops proposals for strategic business decisions. The role provides high value procurement solutions to the business and category strategies; supports third party vendor selection, vendor development, technology management and performance measurement activities. The Procurement Category Manager ensures best-in-class delivery of external services and products in the Corporate Services category to support projects and to realize year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process improvements in close collaboration with the stakeholders in the business.
Major Accountabilities:
• Key Categories: HR services (Recruitment, Compensation & Benefits, Recruitment, global mobility, Insurance, etc), Professional Services (Consultancy, Financial Services, G&A, Cross Functional services etc). Drive/Implement category strategic goals from overall Procurement strategy / Ecosystem management. Deriving game-changing strategies by defining clear category objectives, working with analytical data, business stakeholders and market expertise. Aligning strategies to measurable target and clearly conveying them to the organization.
• Projecting the dynamics and impacts of business case. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies. Participating in and / or leading financial discussions. Applying financial knowledge to participate actively, e.g. in budgeting process, including tax aspects in sourcing strategies and structuring sophisticated deals with ecosystem partners.
• Mapping the value chain, analyzing it and deriving potential scenarios. Includes the understanding and application of total cost of ownership, and should cost modelling. • Compliance & risk management: supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance (budget, payment, vendor PO, contract invoice, buying channel, etc.) and deriving corrective actions to improve compliance.
• Planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status. Adoption of implemented Procurement tools and processes. Managing data analysis and reporting, e.g. analyzing spend, demand, supply markets and competitors.
Demand management:
o Responsible to ensure the right balance between business needs and Novartis’ strategy.
o Accountable to work with stakeholders to identify the most cost-effective ways to deliver business objectives.
Sourcing and supplier relationships management:
o Executing the Source-to-Contract process including respective strategies, approaches and methods
o Preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations. Adapting tactics from a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business and Procurement objectives.
Key Performance Indicators
• Successful development, implementation and maintenance of the Procurement strategy. Value Delivery – right-sized spending and projected savings in compliance with a meaningful guideline. Successful and measurable execution on efficiency programs (e.g. Power of Purpose). Measurable and continuous process improvement & compliance assurance. Understanding the Procurement KPIs related to market insights, price and demand development as well as procurement's performance.
**Position Title:**
Procurement Category Manager-Corporate Services
**Minimum requirements:**
Minimum requirements :
• University/Advanced degree is required. Master’s Degree/other advanced degree in the area of business, finance or Engineering is preferred.
• Excellent spoken and written English, Chinese. Other languages is preferred.
• >10 years Procurement category management, supplier management experience, with focus in HR services related domain
• Preferred industries: MNC, Pharma, FMCG, Telco, SSC setup in various industries
• >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 HR Services domain.
• Demonstrated project management, influencing & business partnering skill, leadership experiences.
**About the Novartis Global Service Center in Kuala Lumpur:**
The Novartis Global Service Center (NGSC) in Kuala Lumpur delivers a broad variety of services to the Novartis divisions worldwide. Kuala Lumpur is part of a globalized network of five NGSCs, which form a successful network of services minded associates partnering with the Novartis business around the world.
**What makes NGSC special?**
Attractive office location, flexible time management, strong work/life balance, flexible working hours, truly multinational and dynamic organization, multicultural environment and cross-functional hub location
**Why consider Novartis?**
799 million. That’s how many lives our products touched in 2019. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?
We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you’re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.
**Imagine what you could do at Novartis!**
**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:**
Novartis embraces diversity, equal opportunity and inclusion. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration, and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.
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**Job Type:**
Full Time
**Country:**
Malaysia
**Work Location:**
Petaling Jaya
**Functional Area:**
Procurement
**Division:**
NBS
**Business Unit:**
PROCUREMENT NBS
**Employment Type:**
Regular
**Company/Legal Entity:**
NOV MALAYSIA
**Shift Work:**
No
