Manager - Commercial Procurement

Job description

**Role & responsibilities** - Lead a team of associates and specialists to transform market intelligence and analytics into actionable insights that enable global category management strategy development. - Support the definition and implementation of global commercial category strategies aligned to regional and global business needs. - Deliver micro and macro market analysis, spend insights, supplier evaluation, and risk assessments to support strategy and partner engagement. - Partner with data and analytics teams to demonstrate internal and external data sources to identify trends, opportunities, and future strategy direction. - Facilitate sourcing processes by supporting RFP, RFQ, and RFI development and managing response collection, analysis, and comparative evaluations - Maintain and optimize category management templates, strategy decks, and stage-gate materials, ensuring consistent tools and repository governance. - Track and report internal requests handled by the category management enablement team in line with engagement plans and delivery commitments. - You foster collaboration, lead through influence, and operate with clarity and integrity in a global, matrixed, and evolving environment. **Requirements:** - Bachelors degree in a relevant field with progressive experience in procurement, preferably in Pharma/Biopharma - Proven experience leading teams, processes, and suppliers across multiple categories in a global or multi-national environment - Strong knowledge of category management principles, including market analysis, spend analysis, supplier evaluation, and risk management - Demonstrated expertise in transforming data and market intelligence into actionable category insights and strategies - Experience leading and developing associate- and specialist-level professionals, including performance management, coaching, and career development. - Ability to build influential relationships with partners and suppliers to drive business outcomes. - Working knowledge of ERP systems and Source-to-Pay (S2P) platforms (e.g., Oracle, Zycus, GEP, Ariba) preferred. - Proficiency in standard business applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). - Ability to operate effectively with integrity, focus, and clarity in ambiguous environments and inspire change and improvement.