Lead Buyer - Global Chemicals (m/f/d)
Your opportunity:
- Responsible to support strategic sourcing and procurement of raw materials (RM) – Category of Global Chemicals. Re-sponsibilities include implementing short- and long-term sourcing opportunities, cost reduction strategies, supplier evalua-tions and contract negotiations, leveraging market intelligence and engaging with internal and external business partners
- Create a supplier sourcing strategy, under strong consideration of customer needs, that defines strategic suppliers into grow, fix and exit suppliers and maintains product footprint, incl. “make or buy”-analysis
- Participate in all stages of supplier identification and selection
- Manage the key RM – Global Chemicals, including dealing with regulatory aspects of shipment, customs, and any other import issues as they might arise
- Execute RfQs for potential catalogue items including contracting based on standard contract templates
- Support the R&D team with sourcing for new products and technical evaluation
- Develop alternatives for new sources of commercial supply to manage risk, reduce cost, and improve service levels and quality
- Perform risk management and constraint analysis on key materials. Recommend and implement risk mitigation activi-ties
- Lead purchasing practices and policies to ensure compliant and ethical relationships with suppliers
- Collaborate closely with the Supply Chain department
- Participate in supplier quality audits
Your profile:
- Degree in Chemistry or other Life Sciences degree, Management, Economics or Engineering
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in similar roles within Pharmaceutical or Chemical Industry
- Highly motivated, energic and a good team player
- Strong supplier relationship management and contract management
- Strong sense of urgency and initiative to make things happen
- Strong communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to analyze problems and conclude decisions
- Ability to work in a matrix environment with multi-cultural teams
- Ability to create competitive strategies and plans, broad knowledge of strategies and tactics of the marketplace, knows trends
- Knowledge of regional and global supplier base for relevant commodities
- Advanced knowledge in the use of SAP and Microsoft Office, i.e. Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint
- Fluent English and German at negotiation level
- Availability to travel, as required, on an international basis
- Proactivity, oriented to the internal client, for solutions and for continuous improvement
Lavradio, PT, 2836-908
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