The Procurement Manager is responsible for establishing and managing direct and indirect goods and services for Hopewell site with complete management of supplier relationships. The role will lead by coordinating with various functions to ensure seamless purchasing operations in the ERP environment (SAP S/4Hana) and ensure smooth compliant Procure to Pay and Contract to Pay processes are followed.
Essential Functions of The Job: • Responsible for following global Procurement processes and install local purchasing activities in the Procure to Pay process. This includes both Direct and Indirect purchasing responsibilities. • Support Hopewell site project start up including support of Plant Manager, Global Procurement Project Lead, engineers, Quality Control, and MST departments. • Hopewell site Business Partnering to support CAPEX project and enable business growth. • Support Plant Service Procurement Site Lead to manage S2P activities for Hopewell CAPEX project and ensure process compliance and deliver financial excellence • Support CAPEX project change management and supplier performance management • Review future site start up BOM requirements and explore local US sources of supply for various raw materials categories for large molecule bioproduction. • Establish clear and precise communications with global business partners across all relevant departments to ensure Hopewell site activities are conducted in time and deliverables are aligned with key stakeholders. • Ensure all relevant purchasing activities using SAP and/or Ariba are done in accordance with S&OP, production plan, and MRP. Be a Key User in the SAP implementation project and drive toward implementation. • Engage key stakeholders early in local sourcing processes to ensure Procurement is involved upstream in sourcing decisions via a "seat at the table" concept. • Promote supplier relationship management (SRM) with key and critical suppliers in both direct and indirect areas of Procurement. • Establish periodic business and quality reviews (BQR) with key suppliers including working with Global Category Leads (GCL) to review ongoing supplier delivery performance, business scorecard, quality scorecard, and technical process improvements. • Contract management including but not limited to negotiation and tracking etc. To provide strong supports for key/high value procurement projects. Ensure that the company is in the position with most competitive commercial and service terms. • Continuing to optimize key performance indictors including but not limited to reducing costs, improving payment cycle, keeping a proper lead time and improving after-sale services, etc. • Generate and track TCO savings achievements according to procurement annual goals and policy. Including tracking both cost reduction and cost avoidance savings per definitions. • Ensure periodic E&O analysis is performed with Planning and business partners to monitor raw materials scrap level for continuous improvement. • Build strong partnership with key suppliers based on supplier criticality categories and reduce risks in assurance of supply and quality. • Actively involved in understanding supplier's manufacturing capability, inventory strategy, business trends, etc. while executing strategies to improve raw material delivery performance. • Negotiate supply agreements and purchase agreements with key suppliers to ensure commercial terms and quality of products and services provided are in best terms to the company. • Partner with Finance to reconcile blocked invoices and facilitate processing payments and invoices. • Lead RFI / RFQ / RFP activities and make supplier selection recommendations based on commercial and technical requirements. • The role will be required to attend teleconference meetings in certain international time zone hours due to global nature of Global Procurement. • Other duties as assigned by the manager.
Qualifications: • GMP environment is a plus. • Possess good contracting, negotiation, price analysis, and communication skills. • Be independent and proactive, under pressure and have strong execution. • Good computer office skills; English skills in writing and speaking. • Comply with disciplinary and procurement professional ethics. Have strong sense of responsibility, devotion, innovation, and teamwork. • Able to work independently and demonstrated cross functional leadership in stakeholder management and driving procurement principles.
Education Required:
Bachelor's degree and above, with 5+ years of experience. Or Masters with 4+ years of experience.
Computer Skills:
Familiar with SAP S4/HANA or similar procurement platform and ERP systems.