Gps Alexion Rare Disease Senior Procurement

A position dedicated to daily support of all procurement activities for **Alexion AstraZeneca Rare Disease**

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

**Responsibilities**:
**Responsible for Source to Contract activities**:

- Collaborate with Procurement category in sourcing and contracting strategies implementation delivering category targets and savings targets
- Knows and applies Procurement Processes and Tools in a daily work and actively participate in the Source to Contract process simplification, improvement and optimisation (process steps, internal ways of working, legal support model, documents and templates etc.)
- Has knowledge to independently drive the S2C process, understands the category/SET area specifics, business needs and priorities and applies them to the work.
- Knows and advises Stakeholders about Sourcing events and Contracts types
- Is able to drive E2E S2C process independently.
- Support market research activities by issuing RFI, manage sourcing projects (incl. issue of RFP, RFQ) and conduct e-auctions
- 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.
- Drive Contracting process, including advising on the right template or contracting approach, ensuring contract renewals and leading new contracts creation, negotiations/renegotiations of the T&C’s, 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)
- Ensure compliance to company procurement policies and improve the usage of the procurement tools
- Actively uses the opportunities to work across the teams

**Requirements**:
**Essential**:

- University degree required
- At least 2-4 years of the work experience in the procurement department or supply chain (preferably in the organisation with a big or mature procurement organisation)
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Good presentation skills, knows best practises, able to choose presentation method and adjust the content to the audience. Shapes the message that gets through to the audience.
- Strong relationship and business partnering skills and ability to engage with the stakeholders on different level in the organization
- Experience with E2E Source to Contract process
- Project management skills (contribution to the procurement process by participation in designing, implementing and managing projects)
- Flexibility and fast adaptation to changing environment
- Time management (timely decisions to create real savings or cost avoidance) and prioritization (the ability to place urgency on varying demands)
- Strong team player able to collaborate with stakeholders from different cultures.
- “Can do attitude”
- Microsoft Office literacy
- 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)

**Desirable**:

- Knowledge of Procurement tools (i.e. Jaggaer, Coupa)
- Experience in negotiating commercial terms and contract clauses
- Experience in pharmaceutical R&D