Procurement Specialist Iii Monza

Procurement Specialist Iii
Monza
Lombardia, Monza

With revenues of more than $35 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world

**Essential functions**:

- Ensure the purchasing of goods, raw materials, technical items and services to enable daily manufacturing operations at site level, safeguarding quality and cost.

- Manage escalations to avoid any disruptions to manufacturing of critical life-saving drugs.

- Scout and qualify new vendors at local level and support internal functions in ensuring existing vendor compliance to quality standards

- Own technical and cost negotiations with vendors aimed at improving continuity and quality of service, total cost and saving strategies.

- Active lead on projects at site or business unit level

- Identify saving opportunities for assigned categories at site level

- Develop commodity strategies to support site KPIs (i. e.

Right First Time (RFT), On Time in Full (OTIF) e Quality Assurance standards)

- Support reaching budget targets (direct & indirect materials), saving targets and Purchase Price Variance (PPV)

- Prepare and update periodic reports and status updates on purchasing requests, order approvals and emission.

- Issue and manage purchase orders

**Skills

- MSc in Management, Economics or other related fields

- At least 3 years of experience in a purchasing/procurement team in a manufacturing international environment

- Proficient with SAP and Ariba

- Excellent written and spoken English and Italian

- Excellent knowledge of Office Suite, especially Excel

- Good communication and negotiation skills

- Ability to manage escalations and to communicate effectively under pressure

- Project management experiences are considered a plus