Senior Strategic Buyer Indirect

Job title: Senior Strategic Buyer Indirect

Company: Lonza


Job description: Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.Provide leadership to procurement function for Lonza India whilst leading a team of procurement specialists and ensure timely provision of indirect material / spares / services, based on global supplies as well as local vendors for CHI in India. The incumbent provides support to business and global functions in India.The incumbent manages and supports indirect spend management and ensures coordination of the day-to-day procurement activities across Lonza’s sites in India. Ensures business continuity and supply / availability of indirect materials and services for production by monitoring and improving supplier performance and by managing supplier relationships. Develop and implement savings projects, in alignment with Indirect Global Category Managers and local business stakeholders to contribute to achieving business goals and savings targets. Be aware of the supply market dynamics to ensure Lonza’s competitiveness. Provides procurement expertise in tendering, negotiation, contracting and procurement systems.Key ResponsibilityLead a team of buyers and purchasing specialists and support them with supply market expertise and risk mitigation measuresEnsure the effective provision of complex, strategic material and services to meet site manufacturing needs, based on existing global or regional contractsTo develop new supply options and manage negotiations with selected suppliers for the complex category and medium to smaller, non-strategic items to meet site needsLead negotiations for contracts in India for warehousing for Lonza IndiaResolve timely supplies issues through experience of managing international logistical supply challenges and regulatory compliancesResponsible for managing relationships with agencies, consultants for business continuity, sustainability, expansion projects. This is critical to business and growth plans in India.Key interface with suppliers for all operational issues and responsible for supplier relationship and performance management of vendors.Support Global Category Managers with category strategy development (e.g. provide site current and future business needs)Support implementation and execution of indirect global and regional category strategies at site levelProvide procurement expertise in tendering, negotiation tactics, planning and contractingSupport global & regional sourcing effortsSupport the roll-out of new procurement policies / procedures and toolsSupport the optimization of transactional costs & efficiency of procurement activitiesShare best practices and synergies across sitesSupport standardization of specifications across sites and regionsTrack country savings performance and identify potential savings, risks & opportunitiesDrive utilization of on-line catalogues, E-Auctions and other leading edge sourcing tools (e.g. Ariba)Delivery of KPIs on savings for the team – Bring savings to Lonza by unit price reduction, commodity market performance, cost avoidance, volume rebates, value creations etc.Lead the procurement of significant technical equipment itemsResponsible for compliance with standard operating procedures and create guidelines locally to facilitate smooth procurement process. Adhere to strict audit requirements and maintain records for statutory and IFC AuditsGuides users across business and functions on standard procurement process and ensure complianceResponsible for knowledge management, database management of vendors based on spend categoriesResponsible for onboarding suppliers (existing and new) to the Responsible Sourcing initiatives (Sustainability and Decarbonization) and following up via corrective actions plans to ensure suppliers’ compliance with Lonza’s supplier code of conduct and other commitments (e.g., child labor, climate, biodiversity etc.)Develop, manage and maintain procurement data:Maintain cohesive and professional teamwork among procurement team and ensure seamless service to all stakeholdersResponsible for team development and learning interventions to develop capability of teamMaintain and monitor a consolidated and exhaustive overview of current supplier contractsWork with Procurement analytics on continuously improving the accuracy of the spend cube and other key databasesEnsure commercial data is always up to date in the ERP systemMaintain and document local market knowledge that impact key spend categoriesOversee and support flow of information by customers / suppliersPersonal development and capacity building:define personal development goals and associated training and development needscomplete mandatory training and capability building programKey requirements:5-10 years of experienceMasters in SCM/Operations/ProcurementPreferred from Pharma /Food Industry

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Location: Haryana

Job date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:44:44 GMT

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