Purpose and Scope:
Execute category strategy, drive key sourcing activities and act as a Business Partner to the key stakeholders of the organization.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
Strategy Execution
- Supports the category strategy creation and ensures execution of category strategies in the assigned country
- Is an active part of the extended team for assigned country
- Providing insights on the local/ regional market
- Presents decision recommendation to the decision board to ensure a transparent and aligned decision making.
Business Partnering
- Identifies key stakeholders and acts as Business Partner to them.
- With internal and/ or external stakeholders, creates a clear vision and value proposition for Procurement
- Works with stakeholders to identify short and long-term plans for creating value (eg, sourcing plans, roadmaps)
- Becomes a trusted advisor for key suppliers, and senior stakeholders for strategic advice and counsel.
Supplier Management and Selection
- Conducts complex supplier selection activities and management of formal strategic sourcing and RFx processes including supplier identification, supplier due diligence activities and owns supplier life-cycle management. Identifies relevant stakeholders for the sourcing event and manages them as a project team.
- Drives and conducts price and contract negotiations with a high degree of autonomy, in alignment with business stakeholders and procurement functions as required.
- Works with a high degree of autonomy and takes decisions within assigned area of responsibility. Presents results and recommendations for management decisions to relevant decision boards and stakeholders.
- Coaches, supervises and collaborates with sourcing specialists for specified sourcing initiatives and supplier management.
- Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and R2P tools; leverages and utilizes eAuctions where appropriate.
- For assigned areas, resolves diligently quality, supply, or any other issues in close collaboration with the local and regional stakeholders.
Analysis and Documentation
- Performs proposal analysis, including price analyses, “Should Cost” modelling, benchmarking and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
- Generates proposal/ quote comparisons and compiles detailed assessment of cost breakdowns.
- Ensures full documentation (RFQs documents, contracts, and data & price maintenance at each sourcing project closure.)
Risk Management and Ethical Standards
- Evaluates financial stability of suppliers and manages supplier risks as needed while considering the local plans, regulations, and specificities.
- Demonstrates the highest ethical standards and ensures Fresenius Medical Care procedures are adopted and followed.
Required training and education:
University Degree in Economics, Business Administration or respectively equal educational training incl. relevant work experience
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years professional experience within tactical Procurement
- Extensive purchasing experience in an international context, Healthcare sector preferred
- Knowledge of industry-specific rules and regulations as well as industry standards
- Understands the business environment
- Collects, handles, and analyses diverse data types while leveraging digital communication technologies.
- Delivers structured and compelling strategies based on data-driven insights, stakeholder needs and business objectives.
- Embraces change and new ideas as well as formulates and applies creative responses to problems.
- Communicates effectively
- Drives negotiations for strong outcomes including optimal financial and operational results.
- Collaborates to create and manage contracts aligned with legal standards.
- Takes an organized approach to managing projects, including defining a clear scope, key deliverables and timeline that is communicated regularly to stakeholders.
- Demonstrates and applies a holistic Procurement approach based on a deep internal & external analysis jointly with strong stakeholder engagement and a long-term vision and strategy.
- Develops and applies a methodology for selecting, negotiating, contracting, and implementing supplier agreement(s) with the aim of reducing the total costs of purchased materials/goods/services while maintaining and improving levels of quality, service, and technology.
- MS Office
- Fluent English; Other languages a plus
- Flexibility for occasional business travelling (10%)