Senior Procurement Specialist – Professional Services-2

We’re on a mission to change the future of clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the biopharmaceutical industry bring medical treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world but to do this, we need people like you.

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

HEALTH:

– Medical plan for you and your dependents.

– Personal Accident Insurance

– Life Insurance

– Critical illness cover

WEALTH:

– Salary structure and Flexi basket

– Provident fund of 12%

– Gratuity scheme

YOURSELF: Internal growth and development programs & trainings

Key Accountabilities:

Sourcing

• Prepares pre-qualification questionnaires and tender invitations in response to business cases.
• Recognizes the difference between open source and proprietary systems options.
• Produces detailed evaluation criteria for more complex tenders and assists in evaluation of tenders.
• Looks to consolidate spend to preferred Perceptive vendors while making sure all geographies and service requirement can be met through our vendor base

Supplier management

• Collects supplier performance data and investigates problems.
• Monitors and reports on supplier performance, customer satisfaction, and market intelligence.
• Validates that suppliers’ performance is in accordance with contract terms.
• Engages proactively and collaboratively with suppliers to resolve incidents, problems, or unsatisfactory performance.
• Implements supplier management-related service improvement initiatives and programs
• Monitor and analyze local expenditures together with supplier performance, conduct local key supplier reviews and identify opportunities for improved sourcing initiatives, including assessing the benefits of local agreements.
• Develop negotiation strategies to deliver against business objectives and achieve sustainable relationships with suppliers ensuring cost savings/avoidance opportunities are fully and successfully executed.
• Manage and monitor supplier performance by utilizing established process and tools such as Key Performance Indicators (KPI) SLAs etc.
• Manage local supplier agreements/contracts by working with cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers to reach agreement on contract terms and conditions. Review and approve accordingly.
• Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning, analyze and determine opportunities to leverage and consolidate the supply base using industry cost models, system level tools and techniques.

Contract management

• Sources and collects contract performance data (such as pricing and supply chain costs), and monitors performance against KPIs.
• Identifies and reports under-performance and develops opportunities for improvement.
• Monitors compliance with Terms and Conditions and takes appropriate steps to address non-compliance.
• Pro-actively manages risk and reward mechanisms in the contract.
• Monitors progress against business objectives specified in the business case. Identifies where change is required and plans for variations.
• In consultation with stakeholders, ensures that change management protocols are implemented.

Relationship Management

Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.

• Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.
• Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.

Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.

• Facilitates business decision-making processes.
• Captures and disseminates technical and business information.
• Provide customer-focused assistance to internal customers, particularly in association with key projects and requirements, managing supplier qualification/RFx processes, assessing and validating the capabilities of potential vendors and approving as appropriate.
• Manage and determine local supplier relationships, and work with staff to develop strategic sourcing initiatives to deliver optimum benefits in pricing and levels of service.

Business Risk Management

• Carries out risk assessment within a defined functional or technical area of business.
• Uses consistent processes for identifying potential risk events, quantifying and documenting the probability of occurrence and the impact on the business.
• Refers to domain experts for guidance on specialised areas of risk, such as architecture and environment.
• Co-ordinates the development of countermeasures and contingency plans
• Provide the business with consistent and streamlined processes and systems, ensuring compliance with Procurement SOPs and advising on corporate procedures and compliance with issues. Ensure regular and ongoing communication with internal customers to understand and facilitate their needs.
• Provide Procurement related metrics to senior management; coordinate and analyze minority supplier related expenditure.

Manage Procurement’s role in local audits, provide support to the business on relevant legislation.

• Ensure supplier data bases are maintained and updated to reflect changes in supplier relationships.
• Provide product and service expertise to peers to build a consistent, global and coordinated approach to supporting internal customers.
• Maintain awareness of local economic and business conditions in order to support the business and respond to changes as necessary.
• Maintain industry knowledge for key products and services to address the strategic direction of the business.

Other

• Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested by manager.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Good IT skills – MS packages including Excel, PowerPoint.
• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning

Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail

• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment

Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks

• Ability to identify and implement process improvements
• Builds and maintains an in-depth knowledge of Procurement and facilities.
• Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate
• A self-starter and able to work under own initiative

Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders
• Understanding of the procurement process, contract, vendor and stakeholder management, and end-to-end procurement methodologies.
• The ability to identify issues and risks, facilitate their mitigation and resolution, and interact with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experienced at cost comparison and Procurement Tendermodeling. Good end to end Procurement experience in the same or very similar role
• Experience in vendor contract management or negotiations
• Familiarity with procurement techniques; RFx, Auctions, tender and negotiation techniques
• Experience working within a Procurement environment.
• IT literate. Experience of using and maintaining procurement & ERP operating systems and global operations is beneficial
• Prior project management experience is an advantage.

Education:

• English: Fluent
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent procurement related experience or qualification
• Relevant Procurement experience in same or similar role
• Procurement or supply chain qualification or CIPS qualification is desirable

Come as you are.

We’re proud to be a Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.