Contract Manufacturing Procurement Category Manager

Bausch Health Companies are part of the fastest-growing international pharmaceutical companies aimed at providing quality products in the field of healthcare. We are focused on fulfilling its commitments to patients, healthcare professionals, shareholders, and society as a whole.

We develop manufacture and offer a wide range of branded and generic pharmaceuticals and medical devices in over 90 countries and regions. Bausch Health products are used every day by over 150 million people worldwide.

For our Global Procurement Team we are looking for:
**Contract Manufacturing Procurement Category Manager**

**Location: Rzeszów/Jelenia Góra/ Warszawa**

**OVERVIEW**

Bausch Health Poland is currently looking to fill a new role for **Contract Manufacturing Procurement Category Manager.**

The person will be responsible for managing procurement of products manufactured and supplied by external contract manufacturing organizations (CMO) to Bausch Health globally. Primary responsibility for finished and semi-finished pharmaceutical products category management, with focus on savings (identification synergies, cost optimizations, negative impact mitigation and delivery of savings according to targets), contracting for the assigned category and suppliers, supply continuity issues arising (assessment, reporting, resolution with suppliers and internal stakeholders).

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Manage assigned portfolio of external suppliers and product categories
- Define, implement and execute yearly savings, short and long term savings pipeline, develop sourcing strategies for assigned portfolio
- Implement and maintain strong and effective supplier relationships to drive quality and supply improvement, cost reductions and ensure that their performance meets or exceeds company requirements
- Negotiate contracts with assigned suppliers and monitor contracts execution to maximize savings and positive impact on the business
- Build and maintain accuracy for spend, savings, cost increase & mitigations reporting and contract tracker for assigned CMO’s
- Represent Procurement during due diligence process with R&D/BD for new license deals with external manufacturers
- Provide business Intelligence support in terms of market screening, benchmarking and industry knowledge
- Work with other teams within Global Procurement Organization to identify and utilize synergies and monitor market trends
- Cooperation with Supply & Demand teams to minimize negative impact of supply disruptions and serve as a point for escalation to CMO's
- Work with Tech Transfer, Project Management and QA Teams on relevant product transfer projects. Propose new projects for savings, risk mitigations, consolidation, insourcing.
- Comply with internal SOP’s and Policies, incl procurement processes, procedures and best practice initiatives

**The following attributes are necessary**:

- Bachelor’s degree
- Technical or commercial background (Pharmaceutical or Chemical would be preferred)
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint)
- ERP Knowledge
- Understanding of the Pharmaceutical industry environment
- Negotiation, project management and data analytics skills are desired
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills, detail oriented, and ability to work productively in an interdisciplinary team environment

**We Offer**:

- Working in global team
- Pleasant working atmosphere in international environment
- Opportunity for learning and growing in positive and supportive team of professionals

Bausch Health is an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.