Senior Manager, Procurement

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Driven by abold pursuit of scienceand fueled byan unwavering commitment to patients, Sun Pharma is a leading global pharmaceutical company, providing high-quality medicines trusted by healthcare professionals and patients.

As part of our mission toReach People and Touch Lives, we deliverInnovative Medicines, Generics and Consumer Healthcare productsthat improve the lives of millions of people. With a broadly diversified portfolio of products that span multiple therapeutic areas, weimprove access to effective, affordable treatmentsthat promote better health and well-being.

Reaching People. Touching Lives.

Job purpose

• Responsible for ongoing management of purchasing strategy for ensuring optimal supplier performance.
• Develop and implement procedures to ensure team is operating in line with the objectives of the business to add value, mitigate supply chain risk and deliver cost savings.
• Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationships.
• Lead and manage a team of Buyers to deliver the appropriate support to the business, meeting business objectives.
• Work alongside the senior management team in contributing to overall business strategies and goals.

Duties and responsibilities

• Develop and communicate a procurement business plan; establish, communicate and implement long term goals for the department in order to promote effectiveness and efficiency.
• Manage to ensure all material requirements are delivered on time in right quantity and the best quality.
• Manage current procurement policies, procedures and programs with a focus on their ability to enhance organizational value and efficiency.
• Communicate with Planning, Inventory Control, Quality Control and Warehouse of any updates regarding delivery, urgent needs, and supply issues.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance/Control on issues with materials procured.
• Ensure inventory capacities are managed in collaboration with the Warehouse department.
• Optimize inventory projections based on open purchase orders, and review safety stock requirements for critical products.
• Conduct lot sizes analysis on a bi-annual basis for purchased materials to reduce frequency of incoming materials.
• Troubleshoot shortages or discrepancies relating to received material in collaboration with accounts payable.
• Manage activities to enhance policies and procedures by meeting with all other departments.
• Monitoring, reviewing and analyzing bids and quotes with suppliers to make effective decisions.
• Maintaining company budget and streamlining costs, Develop a centralized procurement program that adds value and efficiency to the organization;
• Develop, communicate and administer procurement team performance and development plans.
• Implement procurement-related Supply agreements and Service contracts. Ensure supply agreements are current and create vendor performance scorecards.
• Conduct business review meetings with key stakeholders to assess risk, review future strategies, and identify potential cost reduction and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with Vendor Management team to qualify and certify vendors.
• Support Compliance team with all vendor related investigations and manage vendor escalations to ensure zero impact on production and business operations.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement to drive performance and business results.
• Maintain strong working relationships with strategic suppliers to assure cost, quality, and delivery targets are met.
• Manage recruiting, training and supervising a team of procurement managers who are responsible for day-to-day category management activities.
• Oversee the development and execution of sourcing strategies across all categories within span of control including targets, timelines and resource plans.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, influencing skills, analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Commercially and financially astute with experience of managing budgets.
• Create just in time supply management system for high volume, non-printed components.
• Lead cross functional teams in resolving Non-Conformance Incidents (NCIs) and Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPAs), in a timely manner.
• Initiate change control requests for new suppliers or other changes requested by vendors.

Qualifications

• University degree in a science, business or relevant discipline OR post-secondary diploma combined with equivalent work experience.
• Around ten (10) years of relevant experience in a procurement role with supervisory experience in a pharmaceutical industry.
• Working knowledge of