Procurement Specialist

What you will do:

• Support the Indirect Procurement function for Brazil, while also handling specific strategic projects in other countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile.
• Support all local category management execution.
• Provide support in the deployment of fit-for-purpose operational guidelines, standards, processes.
• Drive independently tendering projects, align with key stakeholders.
• Participate to Global Strategy review & Platform Growth initiative program.
• Support end-to-end RFPs, negotiation, contracts, saving tracking.
• Support in the creation of Global/Regional/local Preferred Vendor List to support the category strategy.
• Support in the contract negotiations with vendors – link with Legal and stakeholders to execute compliant contracts.
• Analyse spend data to support the category strategy.
• Support on regional & global strategy execution.
• Contribute to the definition of the cost reduction objectives for her/his categories.

Your Main Tasks

Category Execution

• Execute local contracts implementation.
• Drive increased efficiency throughout the domain by reducing costs, risk, and/or enhancing value from suppliers.

Business Partnering

• Ensure continuous procurement connection with relevant Business Partners/Global Procurement team and stakeholders to provide category direction and influence relevant strategy and decisions in the market using appropriate tools and templates.
• Establish relationships with stakeholders to integrate category plans and outcomes in budgets and price planning processes as required.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Support the supplier sourcing process.
• Support the negotiations with key suppliers and leveraging global volume.
• Develop and manage key strategic supplier partnerships including Performance (BRM), Contract management, Negotiation.
• Conduct bidding and negotiations (RFX/e-Sourcing) with suppliers to reduce cost and ensure an open, transparent, and objective process is used to award contracts.
• Contract and negotiate with suppliers.

Productivity & Saving

• Execute the global/local funnel of strategic opportunities aligned with category insights and regional requirements with all evidence.
• Support on a three-year visibility on Cost Improvement & Efficiency programs development and find initiatives by identifying savings levers (internal and external) such as:
  • Demand management: need identification, process effectiveness.
  • Market leverage (vendor panel optimization, globalization…): value added relationship.
  • Understand the feedstock and cost drivers of his/her category and anticipate international markets trends.

  KPIs

• Productivity/Savings or negotiation: Build and propose budget that support Galderma’s financials.
• Supplier performance dashboard: Measure and communicate KPIs and related actions plan to enhance supplier performance in terms of technology, quality, responsiveness, delivery, cost and ethics & compliance.
• Contract Coverage.
• Ecovadis compliance (supplier qualification program).
• PO compliance
• Supplier number right-sizing program

Knowledge And Skills

• 3 to 6 years’ experience, in an industrial or Pharma, Medical device, FMCG company where the Procurement function is mature, performing and seen as strategic sourcing partner.
• International experience within Latin America countries (must)
• Pharma/regulated environment experience is a plus
• Highly proficient with MS Office Suite, including Excel.
• Entrepreneur & Pro-active.
• Excellent negotiation skills, independent, motivated, and self-driven
• Excellent analytical skills – be able to interpret data to support strategy
• Excellent strategic thinking skills combined with strong critical thinking skills
• Experience in working in complex matrix organizations
• Compelling and persuasive communicator (oral and written) with excellent interpersonal skills and a high acumen to identify/assess business and financial opportunities with ability to motivate teams to produce superior results
• Ability to influence both suppliers and internal/external stakeholders, and to lead impacting, and recognized as such, sourcing projects.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field.

Fluent in English (required)

Advanced Spanish (preferred)