Procurement Specialist

hace 1 día


San José, Costa Rica AstraZeneca A tiempo completo

Job Description / Capsule

To support Business Stakeholders, Procurement Category Teams and in-market Procurement Managers in Source to Contract projects, including preparing and running sourcing events and negotiations/renegotiations of contract clauses. The Procurement Specialist will perform Procurement activities in line with ONE Procurement Operating Model.

Typical Accountabilities, Experience & Behaviours

Responsible for supporting Global Category teams in the Source to Contract process:

- Support Procurement category / in-market teams in sourcing and contracting activities
- Support market research activities by issuing RFI, manage sourcing projects (incl. issue of RFP, RFQ)
- Analyse received proposals, making recommendations for supplier selection, prepare summary reports. Make evaluative judgments based on analysis of factual information. Display data and provide recommendations.
- Ensure contract renewals and lead new simple contracts creation - negotiations/renegotiations of the T&C’s and contract clauses including contracts administration - gathering signatures and contract storage in the system
- Enhance relations with Global Category Leaders and business stakeholders ensuring high standards and ability to connect and build strong relationship with stakeholders across the globe (matrix organization)
- Identifies and mitigates risks in S2C process
- Ensure compliance to company procurement policies and improve the usage of the procurement tools
- Actively uses the opportunities to work across the teams

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential

Education
- University degree required

**Experience**:

- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

**Skills**:

- Good communications skills (verbal and written) with the ability to present information in a clear and concise format to all levels within the organization
- Basic presentation skills: knows best practises, able to choose presentation method and adjust the content to the audience. Actively seeks for advice of senior colleagues to improve the skills.
- Relationship building skills
- Basic project management skills
- Flexibility and fast adaptation to changing environment
- Time management (seeks to understands the urgency of the assigned tasks)
- Strong team player able to collaborate with stakeholders from different cultures.

Language capabilities:

- Excellent English communications skills (verbal and written), minimum B2 level
- Polish is not a must
- Additional language would be a benefit but not a must (due to the future support for the in-market Procurement Teams)

Key Relationships to reach solutions

Internal (to AZ or team)
- GPS Teams
- Category Teams and in-market Procurement
- AstraZeneca business
- StakeholdersExternal (to AZ)
- Suppliers and service providers



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