Procurement Manager – Corporate Spend
Sandoz
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Prague • 🇨🇿 Czech
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Manage Contracts: Create, apply, finalize, and review major contracts, ensuring clarity, consistency, and support throughout their lifecycle.
- Supplier Selection: Identify and support optimal suppliers for projects and develop optimized supplier portfolios for each category.
- Spend Analysis & Portfolio Tracking: Analyze category spend data and track contract expiration profiles to support strategic decisions.
- Senior Leadership Collaboration: Communicate with senior leaders, including C-level executives, regarding project needs and progress.
- Strategy Implementation: Oversee global category strategies locally, align sourcing plans with procurement teams, and ensure optimal approaches.
- Supplier Management: Support or manage supplier relationships, purchases, and commercial conditions globally.
- Performance Monitoring: Implement KPIs for sub-category suppliers, evaluate performance, and report findings.
- Data Collection & KPI Tracking: Gather supplier feedback from various regions and contribute to KPI tracking and savings targets.
Requirements
- Global company environment experience with global or regional portfolio management
- Being able to act independently for assigned projects
- Knowledge of P2P process - project, contract and tender management
- Cooperation between teams and various levels, functions and vendors (vendor performance management)
- Representing the organization – being able to communicate with senior leadership
- Contract and price negotiation experience including Terms and Conditions negotiation
- Fluent English written and spoken (C1)
- Preferred: purchasing and contract system experience
Benefits
- Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary
- Risk Life Insurance
- 5-week holiday per year (1 week above the Labor Law requirement)
- Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus CZ in the amount of 12,000 CZK per year
- Meal vouchers in amount of 120 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company)
- Multisport Card
- Premium Health Care Program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
contract managementsupplier selectionspend analysisportfolio trackingKPI implementationdata collectionP2P processcontract negotiationprice negotiationvendor performance management
Soft skills
independent workcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingleadershipproblem-solvingrelationship managementanalytical skillsreportingadaptability