Global Category Manager
6 days ago
**Innovate with partners to maximise patient outcomes**
Join the team managing our innovative Procurement ecosystem that delivers high-quality strategic approaches from partner to patient. Ultimately, we help to fulfil AstraZeneca’s purpose: pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines.
As the guardians of the cost and value that AstraZeneca delivers, we’re a strong, independent function that impacts the entire business. Through agility and supplier collaboration, we are delivering sustainable growth that protects employees, patients and society.
The Global Category Manager will have accountability for a spend category across a region. You'll develop long term strategic plans for the entire spend area within AstraZeneca or your Region.
You will manage customer and supplier relationships to ensure that Category Strategies are highly aligned to current and future Business needs and that the supply base is capable of supporting these strategies.
Facility Management includes: maintenance services, integrated facility management services, site amenities, catering, laundry services, office furniture, service and supply, work-wear and uniforms and lab/bulk/bottles gas.
**What you'll do**:
- Develop long term strategic plans for agreed scope of spend area
- Advise on and drive procurement strategies to make decisions necessary to purchase products and services in congruence with organisational objectives
- Oversee the implementation of the category plan to ensure that the underpinning process improvement and procurement activities deliver the expected business value in accordance with the strategic plans Manage strategic relationships (customer and supplier) to ensure that Category Strategies are highly aligned to current and future Business need and that the supply base is capable of supporting these strategies.
- Work with relevant Category Director/ Associate Director(s) to ensure a fully integrated and customer-aligned AZ-wide category plan
- Advise on contracts, agreements and sourcing strategies for the supply of complex products and services with new and existing suppliers
- Develop, evaluate or manage internal and external relationships with suppliers and other cross-functional teams
- Propose and implement improvements & innovations within the assigned spend area
**Essential skills and experience**:
- Degree level or equivalent qualifications and experience
- Excellent written and communication skills with the ability to influence others at different levels of organisation
- Procurement experience in managing global or regional categories of spend and category strategy creation and implementation on many markets
- Significant experience in international and matrix environment
- Change management - ability to undertake projects or initiatives to improve performance, seize opportunities or address key challenges
- Supplier Management experience Strong analytical and financial skills
- Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations
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