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The Position

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships. Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity

This role sits within the Materials, Manufacturing & CAPEX Procurement Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Materials, Manufacturing & CAPEX Procurement Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Raw Materials, Logistics, External Manufacturing, and Engineering. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Procurement Manager in External Manufacturing (CDMO Procurement), you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using your specialized knowledge, very good communication skills, and in-depth expertise in a specific category or spend areas and procurement overall, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third party spend requirements. You can also play the role of Category strategy owner in charge of driving, coordinating and signing the category strategy.

You will collaborate on a global level with internal procurement (such as Customer Excellence, Insights, Analytics, Contracting, etc.) and business stakeholders to build and implement comprehensive category sourcing and spend management strategies that are aligned to business needs and functional objectives.

You will work closely with other team members, as a peer coach, project, or workstream lead to identify opportunities to aggregate customer demand, drive buying channel automation, deliver on day-to day activities, and provide capacity, expertise, and oversight to productivity and other customer oriented projects/solutions.

As a Procurement Manager in External Manufacturing (CDMO Procurement), you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to:

• You are a Category and sourcing subject matter expert in External Manufacturing of pharmaceutical products. conducting market and internal analysis to develop strategies, best practices, and guidance on tactical plans for how Roche should source and negotiate for third party goods and services in order to satisfy stakeholder requirements and maximize the value for Roche.

• You have an expert understanding of the CDMO market for Drug Substance, Drug Product and/or Finished Goods Manufacturing.

• You have a good understanding about the GMP and regulatory requirements and their impact on CDMO Procurement Strategies.

• You are a Procurement delivery practitioner delivering and executing sourcing strategies and major initiatives by leveraging spend, category know-how, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management methodologies and project management skills, and/or supporting team members by coaching them and enhancing their skills and knowledge.

• You develop content and automation, translating sourcing strategy into content and automated buying channels guidelines, best practices and communication materials that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency.

• You have very good communication skills, especially in English and you are an expert in pro-active stakeholder management, being used to work in a remote environment

Who you are

• You hold a university degree, preferably in business or a related discipline.

• You have 7+ years of procurement experience in strategic sourcing, global category management, complex procurement contracting, and operational category efficiency projects.

• You have solid leadership experience, extensive procurement experience and deep specific category knowledge in one or more categories.

• You have strong experience in procurement systems and processes.

• You possess deep knowledge and experience in the External Manufacturing - CDMO Management, commodity area and knowledge of adjacent commodities.

• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.

• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

• You have skills in project management.

• You are fluent in English to a Business level.

Join our Procurement team in Basel and enable the strong capability expertise needed to meet the evolving needs of our customers. Apply now !

Note: Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Basel. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.