Bilingual Strategic Sourcing Specialist ON
· Lead and execute procurement processes and negotiations for Indirect Sourcing at a cluster or country level by ensuring compliance with local and global guidelines, meeting business unit’s needs, driving savings and building long-term relationships with suppliers.
MAIN JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES (may include the following and other duties may be assigned):
· Provides project management and sourcing expertise to cross-functional, cross-divisional commodity teams.
· Facilitates these teams in the development and execution of long-term strategies that will optimize Medtronic's position in terms of quality, cycle/response time, technology, risk, and total cost.
· Mitigates risk, leverages technology and purchase power, improves processes and systems, and reduces overall cost of ownership and acquisition.
· Negotiates, establishes and monitors supplier agreements.
· Responsible for reporting complaints and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)
· Reporting and data analysis to facilitate decision-making processes.
· Lead and execute procurement processes and negotiations (Both tactical and strategic) for cluster or country specific spend.
· Represent Indirect Supply Management function within the Cluster, supporting local
· management in meeting their needs at the most cost efficient and effective way, mitigating (supply) risk and ensuring compliance to applicable (corporate) requirements, processes and guidelines.
· Deliver cost savings.
· Co-develop and implement sourcing strategies and plans within the cluster/country.
· Drive supplier consolidation and define preferred suppliers together with the internal stakeholders.
CAREER STREAM:
Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.
SKILLS/COMPETENCIES
- Effective communication to interact with multiple stakeholders/teams at any level.
- Strong negotiation, and analytical skills.
- Problem solving and team player.
- Innovative, passionate, and able to inspire people at all levels of the organization.
- Maintain supplier relationship by constant communication, solving key disputes, negotiating final commercial terms.
- Ability to lead and manage multiple projects and collaborate across the team/organization.
- Strong influencer, independent thinker and strong planning/prioritization are critical to success.
- This position requires knowledge of both spoken and written French and English, due to the organization's operational activities, which are international in scope.
KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION
· Degree in business management, finances, international business, industrial engineering, or related areas.
· Knowledge in strategic sourcing methodology, P2P process, bidding tendering processes (RFI, RFQ, RFQ, auctions) and contract implementation process.
· SAP/Ariba.
· MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point), advanced Excel.
JOB EXPERIENCE
· Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in indirect sourcing in categories including facilities, supply chain, professional services, HR services, finance services, fleet, IT, outsourced services, consulting, among others
· Working experience in multinational, national companies of high recognition.
· Sourcing experience working in medical devices sector or related industries.
SKILLS/COMPETENCIES
· Project management methodologies.
· Data management tools and methodology (PowerBI, others).
