Position Purpose

The Senior Program Manager Operational Excellence & Digital supports the Procurement leadership team by leading cross-category and cross-functional programs that drive maximum productivity & Efficiency. Drives effective strategy and tactics and ensure professional communication and execution of procurement projects and activities globally. Effectively communicates, plans, reports Global procurement agenda to Leadership and Manages projects End to End.

Your Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Creating Procurement vision based on insights into procurement leading practices and experience in strategy development. Linking Procurement strategy to overall Sandoz strategy and conveying it clearly to the organization.
• Mapping the value chain, analyzing it and deriving potential scenarios. Includes the understanding and application of total cost of ownership and cost modelling. Expertise in the respective category market levers, trends and main players as well as internal processes.




• Convert Strategies to Projects by defining explicit category objectives, working with analytical data, business stakeholders and market expertise. Aligning strategies to measurable target and clearly conveying them to the organization.
• Compliance & risk management: supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance (budget, payment, vendor PO, contract invoice, buying channel, etc.) and deriving corrective actions to improve compliance. Applying risk management processes including identifying and evaluating risks and defining and executing a risk mitigation plan.
• Ability to navigate procurement tools. Expertise in the procurement data structure and procurement classification system for material, services, and suppliers.
• Expertise in the procurement content (e.g. in contracts) and Procurement applications (e.g. e-catalogs, user portal). Continuous improvement of procurement content and aut

📌 Sr Program Manager Operational Excellence (India)
🏢 Sandoz India
📍 India