Global Procurement Strategic Sourcing Director - Technology

Title:

Global Procurement Strategic Sourcing Director / Directeur Achats Sourcing Stratégique Global, Technology H/F

Company:

Ipsen Pharma (SAS)

About Ipsen:

Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation.

 Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries. We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excellence and impact. At Ipsen, every individual is empowered to be their true selves, grow and thrive alongside the company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!

For more information, visit us at https://www.ipsen.com/ and follow our latest news on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Job Description:

Global Strategic Sourcing Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and leading the Global Sourcing strategy for the Technology, with an indicative portfolio spend of c. 110M€ & anticipated significant future growth

The Technology GSSD provides global leadership to his spend area with the whole Procurement Organization and 2 Direct Reports (1 Global Category Leader + 1 Global Category Buyers), developing Global Categories strategy, securing contractual agreements to meet business needs across a range of activities, and driving actions to optimize quality, delivery lead times, cost, efficiency, and simplification through strategic supplier relationships.

Spend in scope: c. 110M€.

The Global Strategic Sourcing Director leads a functional area of a major spend segment, such as Hardware, Software, IT Services, Digital activities. She/He translates concepts, considers strategic options, develops tactics, and implements changes. She/He creates programs responsive to external environment and participates in cross-functional topics.

WHAT - Main Responsibilities & Technical Competencies

Essential General Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a team of global category leaders / category buyers
• Part of stakeholders’ leadership teams
• Set the strategy for own Sourcing / Categories area, with emphasis on creating added value through sourcing to meet overall business goals and applies appropriate strategic & tactical solutions to deliver the business needs.
• Engage, partner, and collaborate with Business Stakeholders and across Ipsen divisions to ensure delivery of business stakeholders’ expectations together with business priorities and objectives.
• Drive his category in achieving procurement targets: significant improvements in supplier performance on quality and on time delivery; developing partnership with key suppliers to deliver sustainable competitiveness; playing global on categories while optimizing local.
• Improve operational excellence and reducing cost; engage & align with key internal stakeholders (Procurement BP & Business stakeholders) to identify opportunities and then drives the execution of Strategic Sourcing initiatives to meet cost improvement targets.
• Drive a cohesive Global Categories strategy to optimize business benefit from global contracts whilst providing scope for adaptation to meet market challenges; leads key categories and other major strategic negotiations as appropriate.
• Participate in the cross functional cost out activities across the business by working in close collaboration with functional partners in IT, Facility Management, Real Estate, Digital and across divisions Organizations to improve competitiveness and performance.
• Ensure consistent adoption of agreed procurement tools, methodologies and frameworks (SRM, Preferred vendors, Procurement policy, etc). Ensure customization is kept to necessary minimum and stop any attempt to develop new/specific/local methods/definitions/methodologies. Be the proactive partner of the CoE in driving consistency.
• Drive partnership mind-set across the Procurement organization
• Develop staff to ensure high caliber individuals with thought leadership and development potential. Facilitate career paths of procurement staff, specifically Global Category leader and Global Category buyer under her/his responsibilities. Ensure diversity of thought and inclusive team work.
• Lead and develop Ipsen Way, ensuring effective communication across the Procurement organization, engaging with team members to ensure understanding and alignment with operational goals.
• Participate in procurement transformation initiatives

Category Management

• Provide thought leadership on categories through active competitive / market intelligence
• Develop category expertise through implementation of robust processes (category management, supplier relationship management) and regular adaptation of category outputs.
• Design best in class category plan / strategies based on robust facts, data and analysis, that will deliver across all value dimensions (financial, risk, quality, supply, reputation).
• Develop and drive preferred vendor panels and supplier base rationalization.
• Deliver financial, quality, supply and risk mitigation objectives.
• Manage strategic relationships with vendors to maximize value and minimize risks for Ipsen, using appropriate SRM framework.
• Direct staff in the development of global and / or regional category strategies for categories in charge
• Support Procurement business partners, manufacturing plants and/or country teams to implement strategies and involve business partners in strategy design.
• Develop & drive “sustainable procurement” initiatives in own categories in collaboration with stakeholders

Business Partnering

•            Partner with business stakeholders in the design, build and implementation of adequate sourcing plans

•            Develop a robust and trusted stakeholders management with Key Executive leaders and ultimately be part of stakeholders’ leadership or extended leadership teams

•            Drive identification and validation of potential value creation opportunities.

•            Actively engage with executive stakeholders for category strategies buy-in and implementation.

•            Ensure consistent adoption of agreed procurement tools, methodologies and frameworks

Key Technical Competencies

• Demonstrable expertise in Sourcing policies and practices, costing systems & financial reporting measures, and quality management.
• Proven people management, mentoring and coaching capability demonstrated ability to motivate & inspire others.

Drive Vision and Strategy

• Paints a compelling picture of the vision (future status quo) and strategy that motivates others to action

Communicates effectively

• Asks open questions and digs deeper; shows care and respect for different perspectives (both verbally and non-verbally) and able to relate to other points of view;
• Communicates transparently, "tells it how it is" while keeping the communication respectful;
• Builds clear and crisp messages with structure and focus, uses visual communication and storytelling to make the message easy to digest and connect with the outcomes.
• Demonstrates gravitas

Business Insights

• Makes decisions based on data, facts, and figures, and considers different perspectives and the patients' voice
• Able to translate to objectives and setting the bar

Influences

• Listens and observes actively (paraphrases, summarizes, uses body language) and reflects on what was said, builds on what others are saying
• Gets insights on objectives of other stakeholders and is able to identify common interests
• Actively seeks "win-win" partnerships/solutions
• Able to embark internal and/or external stakeholders without hierarchical relationships

Collaborates

• Collaborates and communicates without boundaries, continuously removes organizational barriers
• Focuses on continuous improvement; integrates and leverages key learnings, showcases resourcefulness, learning/experimenting at scale, demonstrates strong entrepreneurial behaviors and mindset

Excellence in Execution

• Approaches priority setting and setting the stage through the lens of execution
• Establishes clarity about the goals, accountabilities, timelines, and next steps; can identify/spot opportunities for real impact on patient and society
• Able to be focused and performance-driven with clear KPIs
• Plans and aligns effectively (steps, resources, timelines etc.);
• Displays a commitment to best practice sharing and setting
• Promotes single point of accountabilities

HOW - Knowledge & Experience

Knowledge & Experience (essential):

• Strong experience (8 to 10 years) of leading global sourcing & procurement activities in a complex multi-national organization with a strong negotiation skillset, able to drive parallel processes to meet often conflicting demands.
• Outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills, capable of influencing and driving a strategic change agenda across the organization.
• Change agent, with strong credibility at all levels of the organization. Strong communication skills, experience of working and negotiating across/within local cultures.

·       Strong analytical skills with ability to identify and explain critical issues.

·       Ability to work collaboratively across functions, extensive global experience leading cross-functional or geographically dispersed teams.

Knowledge & Experience (preferred):

• Knowledge of and experience with the vendor market for the category

Education / Certifications (essential):

• Master degree in Business Administration or Procurement Studies

Education / Certifications (preferred):

• Master degree in Engineering

Language(s) (essential):

• English fluent

Language(s) (preferred):

• French

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