Global Procurement Head (for category Warehousing & Distribution)

Location: Warsaw, Poland; Barcelona, Spain; Ljubljana Slovenia or Hyderabad, India #LI-Hybrid
Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role:please only apply if this location is accessible for you.
About the Role:
This role is a part of our Indirect procurement organization for Manufacturing sites. In the role you will be responsible for a team of approximately 20 associates who are leading all Warehousing & Distribution projects across the globe.
As the Global Procurement Head for Warehousing & Distribution, you are the main Novartis contact for suppliers and are responsible, end-to-end, for maximizing materials and service value throughout the chain. You need to ensure complete material / service and supplier oversight, drive material/service & supplier strategy, year over year net savings / spend reduction, performance improvements, innovations and standardization.
Key Responsibilities:
• Drive long term service & supplier strategy (including supplier relationship management) and year over year net savings
• Accountable for productivity/cost efficiency of Warehousing & Distribution spend
• Support implementation of Warehousing & Distribution projects across categories & functions, ensure key stakeholders alignment and customer satisfaction
• Define category strategy, ensuring end to end material/service and supplier oversight
• Define resource plan & budget; aligning and endorsing the category strategies, preparing material/service/supplier short- and long-term strategic roadmaps
• Manage escalations for most critical disruptions.
• Provide technical expertise in area of responsibility, coordinate across functions and leadership teams
• Lead and develop the team, including defining clear objectives & measurable targets.
• Managing data analysis and reporting, e.g. analyzing spend, demand, supply markets and competitors. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies.

Essential Requirements:
• University/Advanced degree needed (MBA, PhD preferred) – logistics, supply chain, procurement, engineering or similar.
• Preferably at least 10 years of experience in Procurement or other related experience within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Knowledge of warehouse & distribution category is preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of technical operations management experiences.
• Strong leadership skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills. strong project management skills
• Communications, results driven, resilience and entrepreneurial mindset
• Problem-solving mindset, to manage issues and find new savings opportunities.
• Ability to navigate within transforming environment and ambiguity
• Excellent spoken and written business English is a must.
Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn morehere: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
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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