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Regional Category Buyer Media & Communications

  • Bridgewater (Somerset)
  • Procurement

Job description



The Regional Category Buyer is responsible for executing procurement strategies for the categories, representing investments around 100M€.

This includes activities such as but not limited to processes optimization, best practices definition & implementation, resources development, compliance to operational standards, insight generation and program lead.

His/her role will be to maximize value to the various worldwide businesses and activities within a leveraged collaboration with all operational Business partners.

The supported businesses include all Sanofi new Global BUs using this type of services.

Operational Excellence

·  - Develops and provides supplier market trends information to help build the relevant strategy
·  - Carries out the most strategic negotiations with the relevant support from the Marketing and Sales Procurement team and category lead buyers.
·  - Enables the excellence of execution of the strategy via a network

- Provides broad guidelines for objective setting and performance level definition

- Ensures that support, methodology, best practices, expertise, and training to the procurement network is deployed
- Drives the development of new opportunities (new suppliers, technologies, substitution products, etc )

- Understands, assess and challenges needs to sure appropriateness.
- Establishes key priorities and supplier management strategies.

Business Partnering

·  - Develops strong relationship with his/hers business partners at regional levels. Ensures upstream procurement integration within the business strategy definition process

Management

·  - Defines the detailed objectives for their procurement of categories
·  - Ensures support, methodology, best practices, expertise, and training to the procurement colleagues as necessary
·  -Works transversally with other procurement domains when relevant

Operational

·  - Ensures the accurate and permanent understanding of spends and trends
·  - Ensures an efficient reporting on performances, risks and opportunities
·  - Ensures the compliance to contracts to be executed

External partners

·  - Develops collaborative relationship with strategic partners
·  - Set up and follow up metrics of the partnerships

Compliance

·  - Develops and aligns plans for the implementation of the global procurement policies within the Domain and oversees the process of doing so.
·  - Maintains comprehensives understanding of Global Policies/Processes related to Risk/CSR/Compliance and ensures that these are adhered to across the Domain
·  - Collaborates with the relevant Global Category Managers (GCMs) to ensure that Global Policies/Processes that are owned by the Domain are up to date and aligned
·  - Coordinates with each GCM the follow-up of required vendor evaluation processes such as they are related to Risk/CSR/Compliance

Sourcing Intelligence

·  - Collaborates with colleagues within and across Domains in order to identify and benchmark practices so as to identify areas of improvement.
·  - Supports the deployment of the Procurement Digital roadmap within the Domain
·  - Identifies means by which and undertakes benchmarking against other industries.
·  - Promotes a positive agenda within Marketing community, ensuring proper communication and best practices sharing
·  - Instill challenger mindset and cooperates with Procurement Excellence team to bring external perspective in Marketing community

Education

·  Bachelor's degree and 5 years' experience in procurement or equivalent.

Knowledge/skills/experience

·  Understanding of communication, media and PR agency landscape
·  Knowledge of best in class Procurement techniques and processes
·  Proven ability to influence across all Management levels and across Business functions
·  Demonstrable skills in leading and deploying change management initiatives related to accountabilities of the role
·  Strong communicator with ability to adapt style and approach according to audience
·  Consistency of focus upon delivery of outcomes and results
·  High level of analytical skills and ability to utilize tools/systems accordingly
·  Ability to work independently to multiple time-scales on multiple concurrent priorities/projects
·  Able to quickly assimilate new information/skills and then disseminate to others in an easily understood fashion
·  Holds an international and multicultural mindset and experience
·  Demonstrates willingness and ability to challenge the status quo
·  Possesses strong competency in networking across various stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes

Sanofi US Services, Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.

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