Head of Sourcing Marketing & Sales (all genders)

Work Your Magic with us!  

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

Your role : Reporting to the Head of Sourcing Healthcare, the Category Lead for Marketing & Sales is responsible for the category management and strategic sourcing activities related to agencies, business intelligence, conventions media and promotional materials.

In addition to the category management and strategic sourcing, you will build and maintain excellent relationships with suppliers to optimally support our business. You will serve as a key partner to the Healthcare businesses, interfacing with stakeholders across the organization to understand challenges and develop solutions that support growth within the demanding Healthcare industry.

The position is crucial for ensuring the external supply of services to the Marketing, Commercial, R&D, and Communication teams, with predominant spend allocation in the Healthcare sector yet as well covering Group Functions and the Life Science and Electronics sectors.

Key Accountabilities                                       

• Leading the 450 million EUR global category of spend covering a diverse portfolio of subcategories across Marketing & Sales
• Act as a key business partner to Marketing, Medical, Commercial and Communication teams, build solid relationships with our stakeholders across the value chain to fully understand their business strategies, challenges needs and requirements.
• Nurturing and strengthening the relationships with our key strategic partners to build a competitive advantage for the company and ensure access to innovation.
• Providing a holistic procurement approach and developing sound commercial strategies for Marketing, Medical and Communication Services to increase the impact for the business.
• Ensuring we allocate the company spend intentionally and purposefully by developing and orchestrating the ecosystem with our external partners and suppliers that share our ambition and values around environmental sustainability, human rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Aligning and providing strategic guidance to a global team of Sourcing Managers in the development and execution of sourcing projects relevant to your areas of spend.
• Providing the business with the market trends, the competitive landscape and the dynamics around the supply markets enabling the development of sound procurement strategies and execution plans.
• Guide and influence regional and global supply strategies in collaboration with multi-functional teams and coordinate the development and execution of these strategies.
• Coaching stakeholders and peers to gain important insights leveraging intelligence and procurement analytics with the aim to further elevate our insight-based decision making.
• Actively managing the overall risk within the category and developing appropriate risk mitigation strategies to ensure business continuity.
• Being a key member of the Healthcare Procurement Leadership Team and contributing to the development of the Healthcare Procurement Strategy and leading the realization of it within your respective category.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the efficiency and sourcing experience throughout your category by leveraging technology and driving automation.
• Coach, performance manage and identify development opportunities for direct reports, ensuring appropriate succession planning and creation of a strong development culture.

Who you are

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Science related field; MBA or equivalent is highly desirable
• At least 10 years of experience in a global work environment in sourcing, purchasing, sales, or commercially oriented functions.
• Strategic thinker with a cost-sensitive approach and a proven capability in managing complex negotiations and strong negotiation skills.
• Experience dealing with vendors and stakeholders in a multi-matrix environment.
• Proven track record of building effective working relationships with both internal as well as external stakeholders and regarded a trusted business partner.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are essential.
• Self-starter with a high degree of self-reliance; must thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
• Collaborative team player committed to sharing and advancing best practices with a strong ability to inspire, influence and lead through others.
• Willingness to travel as needed and flexible in terms of working hours to accommodate for the global nature of the role.
• An experienced people leader and able to demonstrate passion for developing future procurement leaders.
• Mindset and behaviors aligned to our values where compliance, reputation and high ethical standards are core.
• Strong analytical and quantitative modelling skills including the ability to structure, collect, analyze, and communicate insights based on data in an organized manner.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and believe that it drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
 
Apply now and become a part of our diverse team!