Procurement Business Partner

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The Position

The Opportunity

The Procurement Business Partner is a strategic procurement advisor to local business stakeholders, acting as an enabler and strategic thinker to the procurement organization. To ensure that procurement works as a network by linking the external markets, global procurement strategies and local procurement delivery teams to procurement activity. The Procurement Business Partner ensures that high-quality end-user service requirements and expectations are satisfied.

Your Responsibilities

• Be the“voice of Procurement” to the Business, and the “voice of the business” to Procurement - represent procurement to the business in their location(s) directly or indirectly as support to local delivery teams.

• Provide input into global strategies and plans - provides global category and supplier management teams with local input to support global and regional category and supplier strategy development.

• Procurement ambassador and customer partner, acting as the primary point of contact for specific customers focused on simplifying and optimizing the customer experience across procurement, including identifying procurement opportunities, promoting solutions, and advocating for customer compliance (i.e., with policies, tools, processes) and adoption (i.e., Procurement systems uptake and improvement).

• Be involved in target setting - provides guardrails for our procurement organization for annual planning and target alignment generating/leveraging data insights & analytics.

• Support implementation of new processes and technologies - identifies and supports continuous improvement activities to drive additional value.

• Collaborate with global/regional teams in the realization implementation of Category initiatives at the local level, including application of buying guides and content.

• Support supplier management and continuous improvement - development/implements innovation programs with key suppliers, identifies and manages regional strategic supplier risk.

• Support “Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR) - support CSR initiatives related to (candidate) suppliers, e.g. supplier diversity, anti-bribery, animal welfare, etc.

• You hold a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance or similar field.

• Minimum experience of 5 years in the Procurement area (desirable in the Pharmaceutical Industry).

• Has a strong understanding of local business activities, deep knowledge of procurement spend management approaches, strong analytics, planning and prioritization skills to engage all appropriate parties for decision making.

• Demonstrated/excellent leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and influencing skills. Plus the ability to challenge/collaborate and partner with our business to influence demand and procurement direction for our business stakeholders.

• Demonstrated experience of Category Management as well as understanding of the major spend categories and potential cost levers.

• Proficient in systems (Ariba, Emptoris, SAP, etc.) and processes for efficient contract documentation, templates and tools (e.g. eSourcing, eAuction) with familiarity of legal risks and issues.

• You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.

• Fluency in English and Arabic Languages (spoken&written).

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.