Role & responsibilities
- Lead a team of associates and specialists to transform market intelligence and analytics into actionable insights that enable global category management strategy development.
- Support the definition and implementation of global commercial category strategies aligned to regional and global business needs.
- Deliver micro and macro market analysis, spend insights, supplier evaluation, and risk assessments to support strategy and partner engagement.
- Partner with data and analytics teams to demonstrate internal and external data sources to identify trends, opportunities, and future strategy direction.
- Facilitate sourcing processes by supporting RFP, RFQ, and RFI development and managing response collection, analysis, and comparative evaluations
- Maintain and optimize category management templates, strategy decks, and stage-gate materials, ensuring consistent tools and repository governance.
- Track and report internal requests handled by the category management enablement team in line with engagement plans and delivery commitments.




- You foster collaboration, lead through influence, and operate with clarity and integrity in a global, matrixed, and evolving environment.

Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field with progressive experience in procurement, preferably in Pharma/Biopharma
- Proven experience leading teams, processes, and suppliers across multiple categories in a global or multi-national setting
- Strong knowledge of category management principles, including market analysis, spend analysis, supplier evaluation, and risk management
- Demonstrated expertise in transforming data and market intelligence into actionable category insights and strategies
- Experience leading and developing associate- and specialist-level professionals, including performance management, coaching, and career development.
- Ability to build influential relationships with partners and suppliers to drive business outcomes.
- Working knowled

📌 Manager - Commercial Procurement (Hyderabad)
🏢 Randstad
📍 Hyderabad