.About the Role: The Global Category Head - Fleet leads all strategic and operational aspects within the category of Fleet on a Global / Regional level and develops proposals for strategic business decisions. The role provides high value procurement and operational solutions to the business and category strategies; supports third party vendor selection, vendor development, technology management and performance measurement activities. The role ensures best-in-class delivery of external services and products in the Fleet category to support projects and to realize year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process improvements in close collaboration with the stakeholders in the business.Major Accountabilities:Drive/Implement category strategic goals from overall Procurement strategy / Ecosystem management.Deriving game-changing strategies by defining clear category objectives, working with analytical data, business stakeholders and market expertise. Aligning strategies to measurable target and clearly conveying them to the organization.Projecting the dynamics and impacts (e.G. mergers and acquisitions). Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage in category strategies.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.Planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status.Support definition and implementation of Procurement tools and processes.Managing data analysis and reporting, e.G. analyzing spend, demand, supply markets and competitors. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage in category strategies.Demand management: Responsible to ensure the right balance between business needs and Novartis' strategy.Accountable to work with stakeholders to identify the most cost-effective ways to deliver business objectives.Fleet sourcing and operations and supplier relationships management.Executing the Source-to-Contract process including respective strategies, approaches and methods: Preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations. Adapting tactics from a broad portfolio of negotiation strategies to achieve results that support business and Procurement objectives.Oversee Fleet operations activities in line with category strategies, and in compliance with relevant policies and operating procedures, including preferred supplier agreements.Manage Fleet operations, including driver escalations and global, regional and local stakeholder questions raised on the fleet strategy and operations
