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Sourcing Sr Associate
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What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will define and drive the sourcing and productivity agenda for Colombia.
Accountabilities
As Sourcing Lead for the Colombian Affiliate:
- Play an enabler role between Regional GSS and local team in Colombia to align all processes and initiatives always looking to advocate for an efficient sourcing process.
- Developing strong relationships with key team members and vendors in current and future needs.
- Secure the availability of goods and services in strict and consistent compliance with Amgen’s requirements at minimum total cost and risk.
- Ensure an effective and efficient local Sourcing and Supplier management process in accordance with established GSS policies and guidelines.
- Ensure early involvement in sourcing projects.
- Ensure effective management of local strategy development, selection, and contracting processes, supply base control and performance and the sourcing process for above threshold projects.
- Support CFO as part of Amgen’s productivity plan in coordination with FP&A and customers.
- Lead local RFP and vendor processes related.
Responsibilities
As Leader of local Sourcing, with respect to local selection & contracting processes:
- Requirements definition: identify and define specific stakeholder requirements.
- RFx definition: define evaluation/selection criteria, define, and lead RFI and RFP processes based on the Sourcing strategy.
- Supplier Selection: evaluate and negotiate proposals, ensure, and validate selection of the best supplier.
- Supplier Contracting: include negotiated terms and conditions as part of approved legal template.
- Supplier evaluation & performance improvement: evaluate & establish target supplier performance.
- Interaction with all the stakeholders.
- Lead and update local preferred vendors lists.
- Approves all PO´s above the GSS threshold, assuring that all documents that support the process were included.
- Record and supervise savings goals on GSS system.
As Member of the Strategic Sourcing Team:
- Participate in Regional Sourcing teams.
- Category Management: participate in Global category strategy development - coordinate local category management activities.
- Benefits tracking: develop, maintain, and report Key Performance Indicators such as efficiency that clearly reflect the achievement of objectives in each business area.
- Drive the development and implementation of category strategies at a local level which will deliver improvements in quality, savings, and continuity of supply.
- Be a facilitator/partner for internal clients with respect to procedures and GSS policy, assuring that they will follow them.
As Member of the local Finance Team:
- Update Local Sourcing Guidelines & Reimbursement Guidelines based on global policies and local requirements.
- Engage with P2P and T&E teams to align policies, processes and systems with local requirements and training.
Authority:
- Setting sourcing strategies and plans within the Affiliate.
- Raising Sourcing initiatives on a local and regional level and provide input to Category Managers.
- Selection of suppliers within the Affiliate and takes decisions and control within company guidelines.
- Setting policies and guidelines for the operational sourcing process.
- Ensures compliance with Sourcing Policies requirements (Local and Global)
- Suggests innovative approaches and guidelines.
Outputs:
- Affiliates spend and supplier base analysis.
- Local strategies, opportunities, priorities, and plans.
- With respect to local sourcing and suppliers: Business process stakeholder requirements / RFI/RFP’s Processes and results (competition/bidding map) / Evaluation and selection criteria and cost models / Selection recommendations and decisions / Supplier performance evaluations / Supplier performance improvement plans.
- Quarterly productivity reports ensuring that targets will be achieved.
- Input of projects/Saving into the GSS Tool.
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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a committed professional with these qualifications:
- Degree and +2 years sourcing experience.
- Has solid understanding of sourcing processes (tendering, supplier negotiations and contracting), across multiple indirect spend categories.
- Competent in Project Management and independently develops practical solutions.
- Ability to help shape customer’s overall strategy while understanding business goals.
- Excellent communication skills (presentation, virtual team development, etc.) resulting in relationship building and development.
- Problem solving skills.
- Able to work with minimal direction, ensuring quality of tasks / service provided by self and other.
- Experience using e-procurement tools such as Scout & Ariba.
- Applies analytical skills to evaluate and interpret information using different sources in order to draw and present analytic insights.
- Highly proficient with MS Office Suite, including Excel.
- Fluent business English written and oral.
THRIVE!
Some of the vast rewards of working here
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.
- Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, improve your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey.
- A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act.
- Generous Total Rewards Plan—comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor.
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for a career that defies imagination
In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.
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If you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you'll find it at Amgen.
Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.
As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other but compete intensely to win. Together, we live the Amgen values as we continue advancing science to serve patients.
