Job Title : Senior Project Procurement Manager

Location : Toulouse

Type of contract: CDD / Temporary (18 months)
Department : Procurement
Reports to : Procurement Director

We're excited to share this opportunity is part of the Sandoz acquisition of Just-Evotec Biologics in Toulouse. Through this opportunity you will impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people through bold ideas supported by an inclusive, agile company culture. Join us to help make healthcare fairer and faster, help us to pioneer access to medicine! Click to learn more.

What You'll Do:

• Implement the sourcing strategy for a specific capital project aligned with local site project team and with global category management

• Manage all aspects of project sourcing activities in a fast-paced project environment

• Prepare and distribute RFP/RFQs for projects and align efforts with key team members in Operations, Finance, Engineering and Quality

• Create bid packages and perform bid analysis, reviewing findings and recommendations with Purchasing Management and Project Team

• Lead negotiation with selected suppliers and develop contracts. Act as team leader for all assigned contracts

• Develop and drive annual project cost savings goals and objectives

• Proactively look for opportunities to increase cost efficiency in conjunction with the functional area stakeholders across Novartis sites to add value and reduce costs

• Provide strategic leadership to business and Engineering organization for supplier related commercial aspects of the project

• Manage risk and supplier compliance within the project; ensure supplier conformance to quality policies, EHS and overall industry regulations

• Coordinate and facilitate communication between suppliers, internal customers and legal department

• Be part of a global network of Novartis worldwide sites with similar capital projects, participate in global initiatives and implement them within local site

• Accountable to meet annual project savings targets.

Who you are

• Highly effective project management skills

• Advanced knowledge of construction operations & manufacturing facility infrastructure

• Knowledge of Processing equipment & facilities infrastructure that supports a Pharmaceutical Industry plant or at least knowledge of the processing in the consumer goods- industry or packaging industry

• Advanced negotiation skills

• Ability to create well-structured, professional presentations, reports/correspondences

• Demonstrate strong analytical business processes & and problem solving capabilities

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite tools, SAP

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!

The future is ours to shape!

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.

ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.