Summary

- To be responsible for one category in one country and support the implementation of Category Strategy and Annual Category Plan, deliver projects and initiatives, and execute Supplier Performance and Innovation; to support the Category leadership with the day-to-day activities of Category management.

About The Role Major accountabilities:- Support the development of the Category Strategy and the Annual Category Plan, as required by the Global Category Lead.

- Implement sourcing business plan for area of responsibility -Deploy actions within categories, support the development of Category targets, and deliver savings targets where appropriate -Support the aggregation of all Category level data across Divisions to inform the top-down target setting process.

- Support the collection of supplier, market, Category and internal business information at both the Category and sub-category levels.
- Assist the coordination of materials for supplier segmentation processes, as defined by the Novartis Supplier Performance and Innovation Framework and directed by the Global Category Lead.

- Supports the tracking and documentation of risk and issue management for the category.



Facilitate contract management and execution (Cross-Divisional/Pharma spend- Understand applied practice, concepts and process in one or more procurement disciplines (e.g. category management,negotiation, contracts, systems and processes, project or information management).

- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable) Key performance indicators:

- Effectiveness & Efficiency -Value Delivery (Financial) & Customer Delivery (service Provision)

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📌 Specialist, General Procurement (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis India
📍 Hyderabad