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Procurement Manager - Commercial & Corporate Services ( Corporate Services, Marketing & Sales, Consulting)

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships.  Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity:

This role sits within the Indirect Procurement Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Indirect Procurement Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Research & Development, Commercial and Corporate Services, Digital & Technology, and Facilities. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Procurement Manager in Commercial & Corporate Services, you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in a specific category or spend areas and procurement overall, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third party spend requirements. You can also play the role of Category strategy owner in charge of driving, coordinating and signing the category strategy.

You will collaborate closely with internal procurement (i.e. Chapters and capability areas such as customer relationship management, contracting, solutions, analytics, etc.) and business stakeholders to translate business needs into sourcing and spend management activities and content enhancement.

You will work closely with other team members, as a peer coach, project, or workstream lead to identify opportunities to aggregate customer demand, drive buying channel automation, deliver on day-to day activities, and provide capacity, expertise, and oversight to productivity and other customer oriented projects/solutions.

As a Procurement Manager in Commercial & Corporate Services, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to:

You are a Category and sourcing subject matter expert in Corporate Services and/or Marketing & Sales and/or Consulting services,  conducting market and internal analysis to develop strategies and tactical plans for how Roche should source and negotiate for third party goods and services in order to satisfy stakeholder requirements

You are a Procurement delivery practitioner delivering and executing sourcing strategies and major initiatives by leveraging spend, category know-how, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management methodologies and project management skills, and/or supporting team members by coaching them and enhancing their skills and knowledge.

You develop content and automation, translating sourcing strategy into content and automated buying channels guidelines, best practices and communication materials that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency. 

Who you are: 

You hold a university degree, preferably in business or a related discipline.

You have 5+ years procurement experience in strategic sourcing, category strategy building and strategic project execution with general contracting understanding and proficiency or relevant commodity experience.

You have experience in procurement systems and processes

You possess knowledge and experience in the External Workforce, Consulting commodity area and awareness of adjacent commodities. 

You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.

You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

You have skills in project management.

You are fluent in English to a Business level.

Join our team and enable the strong capability expertise needed to meet the evolving needs of our customers.

Note: Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

Location: Shanghai and Suzhou

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.