Department
Health & Biotech
Category
Health & Biotech
Job type
Full-Time
Experience
Not Mentioned
Description
- Accountable for developing a strategic approach to the corporate procurement and management process for indirect goods and services to drive business centricity.
- Proactively lead and manage priorities such as collaboration with suppliers on Sustainability activities, Global Finance initiative implementation at local market, risk control etc. in order to achieve sustainable business
- Embed excellence in category management including sourcing, cost/contract management, supplier collaboration and innovation, supplier relationship management.
- Generate financial value in Japan market, including cost savings and cash generation.
- Accountable for supply assurance, risk and governance within portfolio.
- Leads, Coaches and develops ONEProcurement team resource through direct/indirect reports in Japan. Manage all direct reports performance.
- Proactively identify opportunities in order to promote effectiveness and uplift Japan team capability and capacities.
- Develop strategic plans for focus categories (spend) based on local business needs and demand.
- Ensures Category Strategies are aligned with current and future Business need, and; supply base is capable of supporting these strategies
- Deliver tangible value within sourcing, cost management, supplier relationship management, supplier development and innovation.
- Manage governance via business partnering and make sure commercial decisions are aligned with overall business strategy and stakeholders
- Conduct annual peer reviews of category, region or market strategies with the Procurement Leadership Team.
- Manage highest standards of compliance and ethics consistently across AZ (including end to end process/source to pay and policy governance)
Qualifications
Highest qualification: University
- Leadership; lead and drive business
- Strategic thinking and implementation
- Experience of people management
- Proven ability on agility for changes and change management
- Procurement working experience
- Proven Interpersonal skill
- Business English (including dealing with global counterparts)Sustainability as key initiative for scope 3 supplier engagement
- Entrepreneurship
- Being positive on reasonable risk taking
- Has clear vision and passion to resolve issue and challenge new business model, innovation
- Proactively lead and manage priorities on collaboration with suppliers to achieve goals