Category Manager

**Category Manager - Global Procurement**

Barcelona/Madrid, Spain; or London/Basildon, UK

**Salary**: Competitive + Benefits + Bonus

If you are an agile, committed, and innovative pharmaceutical supply chain professional with direct/indirect category experience in global procurement then we want to hear from you

Join us to help improve peoples' lives and make healthcare better for everyone

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**Why Pharmanovia?**

Pharmanovia is a dynamic, fast-growing international pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of over 20 brands across more than 140 markets. Our mission is to improve patient health globally through the revitalisation of niche, tried-and-trusted medicines.

Our core behaviours are:

- We act decisively but we never compromise on quality.
- We keep our promises and do as we say.
- We value our heritage and foster an entrepreneurial spirit.
- We reinvest in our future - in our products, our brands and our people.
- We give back to our communities.

Since its inception in 2013, Pharmanovia has grown consistently year on year, focusing on delivering high-quality branded prescription medicines to patients, prescribers, and healthcare providers across the world. Our growth has enabled the company to reinvest in its products, brands, people, and to give back to its communities. A people business with a strong, supportive culture that encourages innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, our team comprises over 300 employees and 29 nationalities, operating from offices in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, U.A.E., India, Singapore, Italy, and South Korea.

We are an agile, committed, and innovative global specialty pharma business and a preferred partner for innovator pharma companies, instigating a paradigm shift in the life cycle management of iconic medicines. We seek to extensively engage with clinical communities to communicate product improvements and prioritise environmental, social, and governance considerations across the business and workforce.

Pharmanovia's therapeutic areas include Cardiovascular, Oncology, Endocrinology and Neurology.

**About the role**:
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The Supply Chain Department has an ethos of continuous improvement, refining systems and creating efficiencies. This, along with the rapid growth of the business, leads to a varied and dynamic working environment.

**Main responsibilities & duties**:

- Identify and develop sourcing/procurement strategies to deliver sustainable cost reduction, service/quality improvement and risk mitigation
- Develop a category strategy for each assigned category that incorporates customer requirements, market conditions, sourcing strategy, business risk, and supplier capabilities
- Support and lead the implementation of new sourcing initiatives aligned with the business needs and the procurement plan
- Benchmark and renegotiate existing supplier agreements
- Conclude sourcing initiatives with relevant legal framework to minimise commercial risks and ensure performance can be monitored
- Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers to improve quality and service performance, risk mitigation and identify opportunities to drive further value from our relationships
- Partner as a trusted advisor on a continuous basis with internal customers to understand evolving business objectives, expectations and specific requirements
- Manage the R&D spend, under the existing Commercial along with Quality and Technical Agreement between Pharmanovia and its partner Contract Manufacturing Organisation (CMO)
- Project manage the Analytical Reference Standards for Pharmanovia which includes:

- Stock control
- Sourcing of new and or novel Standard requirements
- Monitoring of the CMO Laboratory requests
- Track and progress chase fulfilment of the requests
- Develop a detailed understanding of relevant sub-categories, monitoring and highlighting when market changes will have a material impact on our cost base, recommending relevant action to be taken
- Underpin robust processes that maintain procurement information/data, files and records for regulatory compliance
- Ensure supplier pricing is maintained accurately at all times and support the resolution of any price queries by working with the Accounts team as required

**About you**:
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- Bachelor's degree in life sciences
- MCIPS qualification
- Great IT skills including SAP and Power BI, advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to use all applicable software systems, databases, document management systems, and MS Project
- Experience with procurement of pharmaceutical R&D, technical, bulk manufacturing and packaging services
- Great project management skills, with experience leading procurement projects
- Experience in negotiating agreements for delivery, implementation of SAP Ariba solution
- Comprehensive understanding of GMDP, quality compliance within the EU, as well as USA and Canada
- Excellent professional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Great interpersonal and in