Strategic Supply Chain Lead
ICEYE
ERPOraclePMP
Category Manager, Clinical Disposables & Equipment
Fresenius Medical Care
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Massachusetts, Tennessee
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ERP
About the role
- Responsible for executing strategies to support GMQS (Global Manufacturing Quality and Supply) North America Manufacturing Strategic Procurement organization objectives.
- Responsible for source development, supply strategy, negotiations, contracts, and supplier management for assigned materials and services.
- Coordinates with North America Plant Procurement and regional GMQS Strategic Procurement organizations to ensure alignment of procurement strategy where material/service synergies exist.
- In coordination with Plant and Global cross-functional staff, develops, leads, and executes supply strategies including qualification of alternative materials or sources.
- Ensures financial and quality objectives/requirements are clearly identified and met.
- Maintains professional relations with suppliers, other external entities, and Fresenius personnel.
- Prepares Requests for Proposals and oversees proposal process for assigned materials/services.
- Performs Proposal analysis, including price analyses and Should Cost modeling.
- Develops cost targets for negotiations, and negotiation strategy.
- Supports GMQS North America manufacturing plants in developing budgeted standard cost for materials/services.
- Analyzes GMQS North American and global commodity or service market trends for assigned material/service purchases and recommends action plans.
- Monitors and prepares reports for established performance metrics.
- Drafts contracts, ensuring compliance to legal and internal/external regulations and/or policies, and maintains contract database for assigned materials/services.
- Acts as Liaison for resolving supplier/material related issues on assigned materials/services.
- Initiates and leads cost reduction and continuous improvement programs including alternative materials/sources, E-commerce, freight, and SAP utilization enhancements.
- Complies with cGMP, ISO, other regulatory requirements, and internal SOPs; complies with Safety procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required; Advanced Degree desirable.
- CPM (NAPM Certified Purchasing Manager) and CPIM (APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management) preferred.
- Minimum 5 - 8 years of related procurement experience; or a Master's degree with 3 years of experience.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals at a professional level.
- Ability to effectively present information, including organizing and making presentations, and responding to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
- Ability to correctly apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, conversions of weight/dimensions/currency, ability to draw and interpret graphs.
- Must understand Accounting principles as applicable to procurement.
- Must possess strong financial analysis skills including but not limited to cost and price analysis, analyzing foreign currency impacts on material/service costs, and calculating time value of money.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Knowledge of Inventory software; Order processing systems; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
- Advanced experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Purchasing & Inventory related ERP system modules.
- Maintains an excellent attendance record.
- May be required to work late/extended hours to meet project deadlines.
- Reference ComplianceWire Curriculum.
