Procurement Category Manager

6 months ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Douglas Pharmaceuticals Full time

**About the role**

We have a strong focus on creating an integrated global supply chain management system across our complex business. We're working in a global environment across 48 markets, collaborating with over 1,000 vendors, handling over 2,000 unique materials to produce over 1,200 SKUs. This is achieved by integrating our suppliers to ensure we provide globally competitive manufactured products.

We have a role for a Procurement Category Manager (9 month fixed term) to manage the Indirect spend portfolio. Based in our Henderson head office, this role plays an important part in the team by defining and executing the Indirect category strategy, running sourcing activity and supporting good governance and risk management of our expenditure and supplier network.

You will
- Conduct annual spend analysis and write strategic plans for spend sourcing activities.
- Negotiate contracts and monitor and manage risks through the procurement lifecycle.
- Support the annual reviews and contribute to minimising our carbon footprint.
- Deliver cost savings and value through supplier consolidation and leveraging spend opportunities.
- Lead procurement processes for strategic projects including CAPEX.
- Develop category strategies and influence stakeholders to implement the strategies

**You will be/have**
- ** PROCUREMENT **insight - you will have some experience in procurement or category management ideally. You understand contract and supplier negotiation and management.
- ** COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL ACCUMEN**:

- you understand budgets and financials and you know your way around a business case.
- A **CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT** mindset - you have experience in identifying improvements and can see where and how to improve.
- A **RELATIONSHIP BUILDER**:

- you enjoy building relationships, internally and externally, working with people and valuing their expertise. Maintaining business relationship comes easy to you.
- Strong **ATTENTION TO DETAIL** - working with contracts, in a quality first environment you will be able to spot anomalies a mile away.

We are looking for someone who has a passion for everything procurement and who has experience in a similar role.

**What a role** **Are you ready to be a part of it?**

**What we offer**
- Flexible working options, so you can get the best out of work and life
- THRIVE Wellbeing programme
- Regular onsite events to celebrate our diversity
- Five weeks leave from your sixth anniversary
- Career growth - we relentlessly develop our people and promote internally
- Life and income protection insurance
- Discounted products from our consumer and nutraceutical ranges including Clinicians, BraveFace, Bio Oil, Nexcare, to name a few

**About Us**

Douglas Pharmaceuticals is one of New Zealand's healthcare success stories - a Top 2 Health Tech company - starting from humble beginnings in West Auckland over 50 years ago to having an ever-expanding footprint into local and global markets. We're working to develop, trial, manufacture, test, pack and distribute the very best medicines, nutraceuticals and products to over 40 countries.

At Douglas there are over 680 of us - including top scientists, researchers, planners, manufacturers, regulators and engineers, and together we're on a mission to improve lives by providing innovative, competitive, and high-quality healthcare solutions. We're here to do our life's best work.

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