Senior Sourcing Manager

Description

The purpose of this role is to implement the category sourcing strategy for Transient and Group Travel or Meetings, and Events & Congress in line with the over-arching sourcing strategy to constantly increase productivity, optimize the external global spend, and reduce costs. The incumbent will develop local strategy for these categories and maintain a close relationship with key corporate and regional partners.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Implements complex Category Strategy and develops it for our decentralized model. This includes complex and/or high spend negotiation and partnering with the business leaders.
• Identifies, evaluates and classifies sourcing risks, devises risk mitigation measures and manages risk exposure.
• Identifies and evaluates existing and potential local suppliers as well as the establishment and maintenance of supplier relations.
• Introduces innovation from external marketplace.
• Uses Business Review Meeting and KPI leverage to resolve potential issues at an early stage.
• Provide feedback and reporting to the Category Manager and Business Partners as needed.
• Manages local Business Partners actively and collaborates to align on common goals.
• Coordinates Business Partner sourcing needs and ensures that relevant information is shared.
• Optimizes buying channels and leverages market opportunities.
• Leverages sourcing tools (including e- or reverse-auction, parallel negotiation etc).
• Maximizes usage of Master Services Agreements (MSAs) or Frame Services Agreements (FSAs) as possible.
• Potentially leads and drives Regional Sourcing projects potentially.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution required in Business Administration, Pharmaceuticals or related. Master's degree from an accredited institution preferred.
• Major focus: Business Administration or Pharmaceuticals.
• Four to seven (4-7) years of sourcing experience in category(ies) management.
• The 6 core capabilities are the following:
  • Demand Management
  • Market and supplier analysis
  • Negotiation
  • Total cost of ownership, saving and NPV
  • Project management
  • Delivering against commitments

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities

Eligibility Requirements :

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.