Summary

To be responsible for one category in one country and support the implementation of Category Strategy and Annual Category Plan, deliver projects and initiatives, and execute Supplier Performance and Innovation; to support the Category leadership with the day-to-day activities of Category management.

About the Role

Major accountabilities:

• End to end support on sourcing and contracting activities for Italian market
• Categories: Marketing and corporate spend
• Support the development of the Category Strategy and the Annual Category Plan for Novartis Italy
• Implement sourcing business plan for area of responsibility -Deploy actions within categories, support the development of Category targets, and deliver savings targets where appropriate -Support the aggregation of all Category level data across Divisions to inform the top-down target setting process.
• Support the collection of supplier, market, Category and internal business information at country level
• Collaborate with Region Europe and Global Category Managers to implement the Procurement strategies in the country.
• Supports the tracking and documentation of risk and issue management for the category.
• Facilitate contract management and execution for Novartis Italy
• Vendor Master data maintenance
• Understand applied practice, concepts and process in one or more procurement disciplines (e.g. category management, negotiation, contracts, systems and processes, project or information management).
• Create/Manage spend, Savings, Vendors, POs reports for the categories under the scope.

• Procurement Experience 1 to 3 years.
• Experience in Excel & MS Office tools
• Internal And External Customer Needs Analysis & Satisfaction Studies.
• Negotiation skills
• Root Cause Analysis And Problem-Solving.
• Vendor Management
• SAP Ariba experience

• English
• Italian is essential
• Spanish/French is an advantage