SourceAbled is seeking candidates for a Direct Hire role as a Sr. Business Engagement Partner with our client Pfizer, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Seeking candidates in Sanford NC/Tampa FL or willing to relocate.
Why Patients Need You
Creating value though the procurement process means keeping Pfizer’s products in production and our innovators innovating. Whether you are negotiating contracts and pricing, managing vendor performance and supply, or ensuring business stakeholder needs are met, your role is critical to getting our medicines in the hands of the people who need them most, faster, and more efficiently than ever before.
What You Will Achieve
Working with a global team of procurement experts, you will play an important role in negotiating commercial arrangements with certain suppliers for direct material supply. You will create sourcing strategies at the local level, and facilitate global category strategy management and execution in partnership with your global procurement peers. You will manage supplier performance to support ongoing operations, collaborate closely with cross functional teams to understand business needs, and enhance the value suppliers deliver for Pfizer.
As a Senior Associate, your focus will be executing project responsibilities that drive cost savings and operational efficiencies, collecting and acting on internal customer needs from our suppliers and the Pfizer procurement organization, managing supplier performance, and delivering team goals. You will also support the assessment and simplification of how the teams work is done. Through your knowledge and commitment, you will contribute to a collaborative team environment for your colleagues.
It is your hard work, can do attitude, and tendency toward taking ownership and initiative that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.
How You Will Achieve It:
Local Stakeholder Management Support
- Act as relationship manager for assigned key site stakeholders and global suppliers.
- Proactively engage with key internal/external stakeholder at the local plant/market level to problem solve, understand business needs, and develop solutions that drive cross functional performance and efficiencies.
- Support global sourcing strategy development and execution that align with company objectives based on business requirements received from internal stakeholders, including business leaders and cross-functional teams.
- Lead, contribute, and engage in discussions regarding core processes needed to coordinate across local teams and stakeholders.
- Organize own work to meet deliverables to project task deadlines.
- Track and own the communication of regular project/task updates and cost savings achieved to senior management and stakeholders.
- Support procurement team budgeting process and execute budget and forecasting activities to the financial organization, reporting spend and purchase price variance outcomes via detailed driver explanations and value generated through procurement projects.
- Ensures compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
Operational Excellence
- Support process improvement initiatives to achieve cost savings, increased productivity, and enhanced supplier performance.
- Analyze spend data (local and/or global) to identify cost savings opportunities.
- Support regular global SRM reporting by collecting voice of customer insights and data from various local functions.
- Create and maintain documentation related to procurement activities, including savings and operational excellence projects and supplier contracts with commitments to improving OE.
- Analyze business needs and identify ways of improving the procurement processes, tools, policies and procedures, to drive efficiency and proactive engagement.
- Work with manufacturing team to assure delivery requirements are met.
Supplier Performance Management
- Lead regular supplier performance management discussions with key suppliers. Build content and topics for review, integrate feedback from stakeholders, and ensure focus on operational and quality improvement outcomes.
- Track supplier performance and SLAs to ensure adherence to contractual agreements, quality standards, and delivering on performance improvement commitments.
Sourcing
- Regularly conduct market research to identify potential local and diverse suppliers and develop a supplier database to streamline procurement process. Negotiate favorable pricing to protect site P&L; Interface with Pfizer Global Procurement groups to assure alignment with pre-established strategies.
- Ensure sustained execution of global category strategies at the site level.
- Perform any bidding activities using global procurement system applications and sourcing tools.
- Implement and monitor the procurement processes to ensure compliance with national regulations, corporate policies and Good Manufacturing Practices (also cGMP), Environment, Health & Safety (Local applications) guidelines.
- Ability to audit spend system data to understand purchase price variance drivers, and enforce contract/pricing adherence as needed
Other Must Have Job Skills
- Strong capability in IT skills, particularly in Excel, Microsoft Teams, and presentation packages
- Good project management and facilitation skills
- Effective communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
- Demonstrated client engagement and customer relationship management skills
- Ability to manage and prioritize diverse workload, adapt to changing priorities and assignments
- Demonstrated achievement of results, including savings generation, improvements to supplier relationships, product quality and service delivery
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REQUIRED BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management preferred, or any business-related discipline
- 3+ years of work experience (1+ yrs for MBA/MS), ideally in sourcing & procurement within a large multi-national company
- Must have experience in procurement, and demonstrate familiarity with systems, processes and procedures
- Must demonstrate experience and understanding of budget and forecast development
- Cross-site, cross-functional project skills and experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA
- Experience working in pharma manufacturing environment
- Knowledge of SAP
Other Job Details
- Last day to apply: May 20, 2024
- Must be able to work in assigned Pfizer office 2-3 days per week, or as needed by the business
- Relocation support available
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $78,000.00 to $130,000.00.* In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 10.0% of the base salary. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.
* The annual base salary for this position in Tampa, FL ranges from $70,200.00 to $117,000.00.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Sunshine Act
Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
It is the policy of Rangam Consultants, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to any legally protected status such as race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability or veteran status.
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