Senior Sourcing Specialist

Purpose and Scope:

Execute category strategy, drive key sourcing activities and act as a Business Partner to the key stakeholders of the organization.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

Strategy Execution

• Supports the category strategy creation and ensures execution of category strategies in the assigned country
• Is an active part of the extended team for assigned country
• Providing insights on the local/ regional market
• Presents decision recommendation to the decision board to ensure a transparent and aligned decision making.

Business Partnering

• Identifies key stakeholders and acts as Business Partner to them.
• With internal and/ or external stakeholders, creates a clear vision and value proposition for Procurement
• Works with stakeholders to identify short and long-term plans for creating value (eg, sourcing plans, roadmaps)
• ​Becomes a trusted advisor for key suppliers, and senior stakeholders for strategic advice and counsel.

Supplier Management and Selection

• Conducts complex supplier selection activities and management of formal strategic sourcing and RFx processes including supplier identification, supplier due diligence activities and owns supplier life-cycle management. Identifies relevant stakeholders for the sourcing event and manages them as a project team.
• Drives and conducts price and contract negotiations with a high degree of autonomy, in alignment with business stakeholders and procurement functions as required.
• Works with a high degree of autonomy and takes decisions within assigned area of responsibility. Presents results and recommendations for management decisions to relevant decision boards and stakeholders. 
• Coaches, supervises and collaborates with sourcing specialists for specified sourcing initiatives and supplier management.
• Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and R2P tools; leverages and utilizes eAuctions where appropriate.
• For assigned areas, resolves diligently quality, supply, or any other issues in close collaboration with the local and regional stakeholders.

Analysis and Documentation

• Performs proposal analysis, including price analyses, “Should Cost” modelling, benchmarking and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Generates proposal/ quote comparisons and compiles detailed assessment of cost breakdowns.
• Ensures full documentation (RFQs documents, contracts, and data & price maintenance at each sourcing project closure.)

Risk Management and Ethical Standards

• Evaluates financial stability of suppliers and manages supplier risks as needed while considering the local plans, regulations, and specificities.
• Demonstrates the highest ethical standards and ensures Fresenius Medical Care procedures are adopted and followed.

Required training and education:

University Degree in Economics, Business Administration or respectively equal educational training incl. relevant work experience

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years professional experience within tactical Procurement
• Extensive purchasing experience in an international context, Healthcare sector preferred
• Knowledge of industry-specific rules and regulations as well as industry standards
• Understands the business environment
• Collects, handles, and analyses diverse data types while leveraging digital communication technologies. ​
• Delivers structured and compelling strategies based on data-driven insights, stakeholder needs and business objectives. ​
• Embraces change and new ideas as well as formulates and applies creative responses to problems.
• Communicates effectively
• Drives negotiations for strong outcomes including optimal financial and operational results. ​
• Collaborates to create and manage contracts aligned with legal standards.​
• Takes an organized approach to managing projects, including defining a clear scope, key deliverables and timeline that is communicated regularly to stakeholders.​
• Demonstrates and applies a holistic Procurement approach based on a deep internal & external analysis jointly with strong stakeholder engagement and a long-term vision and strategy.
• Develops and applies a methodology for selecting, negotiating, contracting, and implementing supplier agreement(s) with the aim of reducing the total costs of purchased materials/goods/services while maintaining and improving levels of quality, service, and technology.
• MS Office
• Fluent English; Other languages a plus
• Flexibility for occasional business travelling (10%)