Urgent Procurement Specialist

2 days ago


Hyderabad, Telangana, India Sandoz Full time
Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

- Prepare and release RFI, RFP and RFQs and negotiate with existing and new suppliers to support business for new requests as well as re-negotiating scope changes.
- Act as the main point of contact with vendors for negotiation of the scope of work, study assumptions, pricing, and payment schedules.
- Negotiate, develop, and execute contract frameworks including MSAs & SLA with key suppliers and ensure full implementation.
- Ensure agreements are commercial advantageous to Novartis while minimizing risk through close collaboration with functional partners such as legal, finance, and QA.
- Ensure ESP selection is based on current category strategy, value added services, cost avoidance and savings opportunities. Delivering a robust implementation to maximize value and drive spend/contract compliance - to also include ongoing monitoring and reduction of maverick spend
- Drive annual productivity improvements in applicable spend categories
- Responsible for complete contract packages for clinical ESP activities. Secure all necessary approvals to ensure compliance to SOX and company procedures.
- Contribute to vendor audit requests and facilitate corrective action plans.
- Ensure ESPs are delivering in line with expectations and contracts.
- Able to identify proactively and pursue new ideas and opportunities, acting as an innovation agent and modifying approach and behaviors as necessary to create value.
- Planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status.
- Achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks.

Essential Requirements:

- Minimum of 5 years experience in Clinical Development / Pharma R&D / Procurement
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Outsourcing within the Pharma or CRO industry.
- Detailed understanding of the clinical development process and robust understanding of the management of clinical trials.
- Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.
- Solid understanding of contractual legal terms and conditions.
- Excellent understanding of the Clinical CRO marketplace including central laboratories, reference laboratories and speciality providers
- Solid financial understanding as it relates to clinical trial contracts and cost elements.
- Analysing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification confidently. Conveying messages clearly and convincing stakeholders

Desirable Requirements:

- Minimum Bachelors degree in Lifesciences/Chemistry / Biochemistry or Pharmaceutical sciences is required.

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