Procurement Manager

With 64 manufacturing sites in 26 countries, our aspiration is to become the top manufacturer of innovative and generic medicines in the industry. <br><br>2023 will potentially see Sandoz become a standalone organization! Already a global market leader in Generics and Biosimilar medicine, this is an exciting, once-in-a-career opportunity to set our own path forward as an independent, purpose-driven organization, and as the founders of a new Sandoz, this is a time of immense opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally! <br><br>Together we will shape the future of Sandoz… are you ready to make a difference?<br><br>As the Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the development, execution and management of commodity strategies for Fougera. You will be instrumental in identifying, designing and improving core processes and policies relating to Procurement and lead deployment and management of Procurement strategies across the company. <br><br>Your additional responsibilities include, but not limited to:<br>•Develop value-adding, comprehensive, future-looking commodity strategies to support North America Strategic Sourcing (NASS) initiatives on APIs, excipients, primary and secondary packaging as well as support of internal manufacturing facilities and external manufacturing. <br>This includes cost, quality, compliance, service, overall performance and innovation.<br>•Develop and execute plans to manage business and supply risk.<br>•Ensure total compliance of materials, suppliers, supply chain, and Procurement organization.<br>•Provides guidance to Finance, Planning, R&D and other functions with regard to materials and supply impacts and opportunities.<br>•Employ best-in-class procurement and sourcing methodologies and tools, commodity forecasting, and supply market management. <br>•Ensure supply and supplier performance continually adapts to meets the needs of the company in innovation, inventory management strategies, quality and compliance improvements, streamlining, etc.<br>•Continually conduct external benchmarking to ensure Sandoz/Fougera remains competitive and current in the supply marketplace.<br>•Responsible for continuous management and improvement of suppliers’ and procurement<br>core processes across the company.<br>•Deliver above benchmark year-on-year savings with successful use of competitive bidding, reverse auctions, negotiations, etc.<br>•Manage the Procurement resource plans and budget.<br>•Adhere to all applicable procedures, cGMP’s, company policies, and all other quality or regulatory requirements (OSHA, DEA, FDA, EMEA, ANVISA, HS&E, etc.).<br>•Ensure all work is performed in a safe, effective manner, and in compliance with the appropriate industry and regulatory (FDA, DEA, OSHA) standards, and departmental, plant, and corporate quality and Behavioral Based Safety (BBS) goals.<br><br>[#video#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RZsoOZv5c{#400,300#}#/video#]