Procurement Specialist with German

Job Description Summary
Would you like to make a significant impact in the pharmaceutical industry by producing innovative products and aspire for a career progression in Procurement? Join our Procurement team for the DACH and European region, based in Prague, and become a part of the transformative change in medicine!

In the role of Procurement Specialist with German skills, you will be responsible for the Indirect categories for the German market. You'll support the implementation of the Category Strategy and Annual Category Plan, undertaking projects and initiatives, as well as overseeing Supplier Performance and Innovation. Additionally, you will assist the Category leadership with day-to-day Category management tasks.

Categories you will manage include: Corporate Spend categories (Training, HR Services, Professional Services, Consulting, Translations).

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Sourcing validation and analysis from business users, country procurement organization or category managers, like direct users on correct buying (content streams) channels if required.
• Supplier selection, requested risk analysis performance verification and update.
• Supplier scoring criteria definition and documentation preparation for competitive bidding event.
• eSourcing event management and monitoring, supplier communication, supplier training, bidding analysis, pitch presentation organization.
• Negotiations after the eSourcing event closure to reach the most competitive prices. Bids examination and sourcing summary sheet (outcome) completion. Recommendation to award and informing suppliers on competitive bidding results.
• Finding opportunities to improve and automate recurrent processes, thus allowing greater focus on value adding activities.
• Contract preparation. Contract drafting based on agreed templates. Full terms and conditions or contractual terms negotiation. Contract review and contract content approvals coordination, signature process initiation and monitoring (ink, electronic). Contract archiving in the global standard contract management system.
• Perform consistency checks and corrective actions (e.g. preferred vendors and related contract coverage).

Essential Requirements:

• University/Advanced degree in Business Administration/Economics/Finance/Statistics or similar.
• >2 years of experience of working in a global environment, ideally in Procurement.
• Fluent spoken and written German and English are a must.
• Experience in supporting clients directly and managing Stakeholders.
• High proven interpersonal, communication & negotiation and skills.
• Advanced Analytical & Conceptual Thinking, organizational skills, results oriented and proactive.
• Good understanding of operations and business culture of multinational company.
• Ability to work in virtual teams and with remote stakeholders. Strong sense for independence and self-drive. Curious mind and high motivation to learn.

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience in Spend reporting, analysis and optimization. Experience with eSourcing tools.
• Basic understanding of P2P Processes.

Skills Desired
Internal And External Customer Needs Analysis & Satisfaction Studies, Negotiating, Root Cause Analysis And Problem-Solving, Vendor Management