You prepare and negotiate contracts, align with global procurement, manage supplier relationships, and drive e-invoicing and continuous improvement projects.
Anforderungen
- •Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or similar field.
- •At least five years of supply chain experience.
- •Experience in negotiating and drafting contracts.
- •Ability to work autonomously and prioritize responsibilities.
- •Independent decision maker with influencing ability.
- •High proficiency in Microsoft Office and SAP.
- •Experience in report generation and data manipulation.
- •Teamwork, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- •Demonstrated learning agility in a startup environment.
- •Fluent in English and German.
- •Onsite attendance expected.
Deine Aufgaben
- •Agreements and contracts prepare and negotiate
- •Manage RFI/RFP/RFQ in procurement areas
- •Align procurement activities with Global Procurement
- •Utilize Technology in procurement strategy
- •Develop business needs and KPIs with stakeholders
- •Negotiate and implement outsourced agreements
- •Contribute to capital projects delivery
- •Manage relationships with local suppliers
- •Follow risk assessment process for vendors
- •Drive usage of e-invoicing and resolve issues
- •Lead supplier relations management activities
- •Support quality decisions for materials and suppliers
- •Conduct benchmarking analysis for market evaluation
- •Ensure internal specifications and standards are met
- •Maintain legal and ethical standards
- •Form close relationships with demand planners
- •Ensure accuracy of materials data with buyers
- •Establish partnerships with Global Procurement
- •Ensure compliance with procurement policies
- •Drive usage of e-procurement technology
- •Implement efficiency and cost savings projects
- •Use e-procurement tools in strategies
- •Maintain procurement documentation
Original Beschreibung
# Sr. Associate - Site Procurement
**Germany, Alzey** | **Full time**
**Procurement of Supplies and Services**
* Prepare and negotiate agreements and contracts with maintenance, lab and production operations supplies and service suppliers so that risk and costs are minimized.
* Responsible for RFI/RFP/RFQ’s in Indirect and Local Capital Procurement areas.
* Drive alignment with Global Procurement on Procurement activities by utilizing Category Management strategy.
* Ensuring Technology is utilized in our Procurement strategy by driving use of Ariba Catalogs and Guided Buying content in purchase of goods & services.
* Work with the business stakeholders to develop business needs and KPI’s to measure vendor performance in delivery of goods and services.
* Drive negotiation and implementation of outsourced agreements and participate in post implementation governance activities.
* Contribute to the Delivery of capital projects in accordance with Global Facilities and Local Capital Plan business processes.
**Management of site/supplier relationships**
* Establish and manage relationships with local site suppliers (including negotiations) while integrating global suppliers into the site’s supply chain, with a view to continuous improvement.
* Ensure Risk Assessment process is followed for Vendors the site interacts with.
* Drive usage of E-Invoicing with Supplier base and assist in resolving invoicing issues
* Lead supplier relations management activities for strategic third-party suppliers. Drive action items, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers.
* Support decisions regarding quality of materials/suppliers and resolution of material/supplier issues, while maintaining high-quality supplier relations.
* Conduct benchmarking analysis to evaluate market landscape for supported categories.
**Support/Influence site business needs**
* Work closely with suppliers and internal customers to ensure all internal specifications and standards are met.
* Ensure legal, quality, health & safety, ethical and environmental standards are maintained and developed.
* Form and maintain close working relationships with demand planners and buyers as appropriate to ensure supply continuity, security, and integrity while optimizing processes and minimizing waste.
* Partner with buyers/planners to ensure that materials data (e.g., safety stock needs, pricing) are accurate and updated on a minimum annual basis.
**Support local & global procurement policies, goals and objectives**
* Establish and maintain strong partnerships with Lilly’s Global Procurement organization as well as counterparts at other Lilly sites.
* Ensure compliance with Lilly procurement and financial policies and procedures, and regulatory commitments.
* Drive the usage of Procurement Technology enabled processes such as Guided Buying, Contract Compliance, Catalogs & e-Invoicing
* Seek out and implement quality, reliability, efficiency, and cost savings projects with suppliers. Consolidate and present captured and forecasted site savings, in alignment with Global Procurement methodology.
* Use E-procurement tools in line with procurement strategies
* Maintain procurement documentation.
**Requirements For Position**
* Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or similar field.
* Previous supply chain, manufacturing, and/or procurement experience (at least five years preferred).
* Demonstrated experience in negotiating and drafting supplies and services contracts.
* Ability to work autonomously, prioritize responsibilities, and be action oriented.
* Independent decision maker with ability to influence diverse groups, both internally and externally.
* High proficiency in PC/IT skills:
* Microsoft office skills are essential;
* Report generation and data manipulation;
* SAP experience, creating and updating Purchase Orders, reports etc;
* Experience in Ariba systems.
* Strong teamwork, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
* Demonstrated learning agility and ability/willingness to adapt to continual change within a startup environment.
* Fluent in English and German.
* Onsite attendance is expected.
**Additional Skills/Preferences For Position**
* Experience working on a start-up initiative.
* Green or Black Belt training
**Other Information**
* Periodic travel may be required to other sites (10%).
* This is an Individual Contributor Role
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