Senior Procurement Specialist

hace 5 días

San José, Costa Rica Astrazeneca A tiempo completo

**Role Purpose**

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases.
But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.
At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration.
Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.
**Role Profile**

To support the Global Category Teams in the end-to-end Source to Contract process (including preparing and running the sourcing event with a responsibility of business sign-off of the supplier selection, negotiations/renegotiations of terms&conditions and clauses and gathering contract signatures and contracts storage).
The Procurement Specialist will work primarily with the category teams to support the day to day activities of the Category Manager.
**Key Responsibilities**

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

- Supporting market research activities by issuing RFI,
- Managing sourcing projects (incl.
issue of RFP, RFQ)
- Conducting e-auctions
- Analyze received proposals, make recommendations for supplier selection, preparation of the summary reports
- Supporting Global category leaders with developing Sourcing strategy to deliver category targets and savings targets
- Driving simplification & standardization of the sourcing processes
- Enhancing relations with Global Category Leaders and business stakeholders
- Ensuring compliance to company procurement policies and improve the usage of the procurement tools
- Contract renewals and new contracts creation - negotiations/renegotiations of the T&C's and contract clauses
- Contracts administration - gathering signatures and contract storage in the system
- Actively participating in the Source to Contract process improvement and optimization (process steps, internal ways of working, legal support model, documents and templates etc.)
- High standards in cooperation with business stakeholders, ability to connect and build strong relationship with stakeholders across the globe (matrix organization)
- Remit which covers all AstraZeneca countries
**Essential Criteria**

**Education**
- University degree required
**Experience**:

- At least 2 years of the work experience in the procurement department or supply chain (preferably in the organization with a big or mature procurement organization)
- Experience in managing stakeholders across the globe within the matrix organization
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Problem solving / continuous improvement approach
- "Can do attitude"
- Microsoft Office literacy
**Skills**:

- Excellent communications skills (verbal and written) with the ability to present information in a clear and concise format to all levels within the organization
- Ability to engage fast with the stakeholders on different level in the organization
- Strong relationship and business partnering skills
- Effective Influencing/persuasion skills and conflict resolution
- project management skills (contribution to the procurement process by participation in designing, implementing and managing projects)
- Focus on result with the ability and drive for achieving and surpassing targets against an internal or external standards of excellence
- 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.
- Good presentation skills: knows best practices, able to choose presentation method and adjust the content to the audience.
Shapes the message that gets through to the audience.
- Uses appropriate style for different types of writing (take notes of a conversation, write the minutes of a formal meeting, or prepare a report).
**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)

**Desirable Criteria**
- Experience with E2E Source to Contract process
- Knowledge of negotiation techniques and tools (including eSourcing, Ariba)
- Experience in negotiating commercial terms and contract clauses
**On-job Skills and Knowledge**:

- Contract management:

- Has the Contracting knowledge to fluently drive Contracting process, including advising on the right template or contracting approach.
- Is able to independently run complex contracting projects, including participation in suppliers negotiations process.
- Procurement process:

- Knows and applies Procurement Processes and Tools in a daily work
- Knows and advises

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