Manager - Commercial Procurement

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.