Position Summary
This role is a Regional Category Agile Leader supporting Sales & Distributor Services and Marketing Operations for APAC Procurement for the MedTech business.
This Category Agile Leader may also support other MedTech Marketing Procurement categories as needed.
This role is accountable for the following primary objectives:
Partner with key business stakeholders, category leaders, and local agile leaders to develop, implement, own, and track category strategies, sourcing engagements, supplier relationship management plans, and category priorities relevant to the MedTech business.Lead execution of the regional Sales & Distributor Services and Marketing Operations categories and projects, and other categories when required.Develop and implement critical category strategies in joint collaboration & alignment with global category leaders to support business objectives.Identify business requirements and partner with key business partners, cluster engagement leaders, and category experts to deliver value, improvements, innovations, and savings.Develop deep supplier relationships with strategic suppliers to include performance management, co-innovation, and improvement of end-to-end value.Determine the MedTech business procurement priorities and partner with cluster engagement leaders to devise strategies and projects that advance those priorities.Collaborate with business leaders to ensure Procurement processes (such as RFx) for regional projects meet the business needs and are adopted within the business.Conduct supplier negotiations for owned categories supporting the MedTech business and provide recommendations to MedTech business leaders.Establish and deliver against performance targets for the MedTech Procurement organization in the role's areas of responsibility and ensure target achievement.Qualifications Required Minimum Education: Bachelors Degree is required, MBA or further advanced degree is desirable.
Required Years of Related Experience: Min 7+ years.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Strong business acumen – the ability to understand challenges through the eyes of the regional business leaders.Influencing skills – the ability to persuade others to change behavior in pursuit of a common goal.Strong leadership and collaboration skills at the senior executive level, as well as with peers.Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to confidently present complex information to senior executives.Broad-based understanding of core procurement areas of focus (category management, supplier management, spend management, business engagement, contracting).Ability to prioritize requests and propose effective alternatives.Strong project and change management capabilities.Demonstrated learning agility, and the ability to improve both yourself and the people around you.High level of credibility with internal customers and the external vendor community.
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