**Summary**:
Location: Mexico City #Hybrid
About the Role:
To plan and lead Category initiatives for categories globally; to lead proactive sourcing projects, specification definition and demand management, as well as manage R&D; supplier performance and innovation activities.
**About the Role**:
**Major accountabilities**:
- Translates global divisional category strategy into integral, divisional, sub category strategy OR translates regional procurement strategy into country strategy and local implementation.
- Lead the implementation of sourcing plans for the sub category and deliver sub-category savings targets following engagement in the target setting process.
- Provide input into the overall Category or sub-category strategy about segmentation and identification of key supplier relationships, and lead business planning activities and ensure these projects are staffed and executed on a timely basis in line with the targeted goals.
- Manage strategic sub-category supplier relationships, and implement consistent key performance indicators for the sub-category, ensuring that any supplier performance risks and issues are resolved on a timely basis to end user satisfaction.
- May directly control at a country level purchase with respect to supplier choice, timing and commercial conditions (may vary between divisions depending on way spend is controlled).
- Collect supplier information and feedback from Divisions, countries, sites,



Category teams and Business Partners, and deliver Procurement Balanced Scorecard metrics.
- Create, apply, complete and reviews major contracts for the sub category, and ensure that negotiated contracts are clearly communicated for the sub-category area and that they are consistently applied
- Manage the budget/resource allocation for the area of responsibility.
Manage the performance and talent development of direct reports and contribute to talent development of indirect reports.
**Minimum Requirements**:
- University/Advanced degree is required.
Master's Degree/other advanced degree is preferred.
- Cross Cultural Experience.
- Strategic sourcing and stakeholder management experience.
- Strong and effective written and verbal communications (English)
- Experience in Research and development category (preferred)
- Operations Management and Execution Project Management
Division
Operations
Business Unit
CTS
Location
Mexico
Site
INSURGENTES
Company / Legal Entity
MX06 (FCRS = MX006) Novartis Farmacéutica S.A. de C.V.
Alternative Location 1
Prague, Czech Republic
Functional Area
Procurement
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No
**Accessibility and accommodation**:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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