Sourcing Manager Medical Affairs with French Prague, Praha

Sourcing Manager Medical Affairs with French

151. The number of development projects in Novartis’ development pipeline. Destined to improve patients’ lives. Please join our global R&D procurement team of 50+ procurement professionals.
**Your responsibilities**:
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Definition when no category strategy in place above strategic threshold (incl. negotiation strategy), approval, communication.
- Accountable for and carefully monitor and support sourcing execution and negotiation performed by the buyer (also acts as an escalation point).
- Maintain strong information flows back to global Category team for opportunities to aggregate demand and generate additional leverage.
- Ensure operational Procurement requests are executed in line with category strategies, and in compliance with relevant policies and operating procedures, including preferred supplier agreements.
- Contribute to overall savings opportunity identification and delivery.
- Responsible to ensure the right balance between business needs and Novartis’ strategy. Accountable to work with stakeholders to identify the most cost-effective ways to deliver business objectives
**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:
- We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve._
**Minimum requirements**
**What you’ll bring to the role**:
- University/Advanced degree is required. Master’s degree in life sciences, pharmaceutical or medical industry.
- Strong preference for CIPS or similar professional qualification
- Understanding of procurement tools and ability to navigate them. Understanding the procurement data structure and procurement classification system for material, services, and suppliers.
- Understanding and executing the Source-to-Contract process including respective strategies, approaches and methods: preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations. Adapting tactics from a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business and Procurement objectives.
- Managing contracts throughout its lifecycle, including structuring information and activating it in the Procurement system, enabling compliance monitoring, passing the information to all relevant parties, coordinating storage and indexing with legal.
- Achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks.
- Communicating clearly in writing and verbally. Conveying messages to stakeholders at different level, engaging and convincing stakeholders.
**You’ll receive**:
**Why consider Novartis?**
766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.
We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.
We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent whats possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!
Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!
**Accessibility and accommodation**:
**Division**
Operations
**Business Unit**
Procurement
**Country**
Czech Republic
**Work Location**
Prague
**Company/Legal Entity**
NOV CZE
**Functional Area**
Procurement
**Job Type**
Full Time
**Employment Type**
Regular
**Shift Work**
No
**Early Talent**
No

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