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About the client:

An international pharmaceutical group dedicated to investigation, development, production and commercialization of innovative medicines is looking for a Category Buyer in Barcelona.

Job main goals:

As a Category Buyer (CB), you will join our team and manage the organization's procurement needs. You will be responsible for assigned indirect categories, optimizing the supplier portfolio, generating cost/cash savings, and maintaining and improving the quality of data used for spend analysis and reporting to the company with a strong focus on sustainability issues.

Key responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for technical aspects of keeping procurement applications systems available as well as configuring the applications to meet the business needs, and accountable for suppliers’ evaluation & purchase category (mostly indirect), ensuring that all purchased products and services meet specifications and ensure compliance with ESG standards. 
• Prepare, control and issue purchase orders and agreements, monitor supplier qualifications process and support the implementation of sourcing strategies.

Tasks:

• Analyse procurement data, highlighting risks and reporting, administer spend classification and view/report Spend classification by work area.
• Evaluate the performance of suppliers and service providers to ensure that they meet sustainability criteria, including respect for human rights and environmental standards.
• Monitor “supply chain” and contract performance throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Presentation of data to procurement team and wider stakeholder network.
• Work on process improvement and data management within the space of procurement analytics.
• Develop supplier KPI and risk management tools/reports in conjunction with Finance/Supply Team.
• Generate cost and cash savings following Procurement strategy & objectives.
• Responsible for creating a suite of KPIs/dashboards/Reports on assigned categories.
• Prepare proposals, request quotes and negotiate purchase terms and conditions
• Track and identify trends and best practices to improve sustainability in purchasing.

 Skills:

• Proven experience in Category Management or similar role (5 years).
• Master’s degree in Purchasing or business administration or related field preferred.
• Experience in vendor management & negotiation.
• Good working knowledge of purchasing strategies and analytical tools.
• Understand about sustainable policies and ESG strategies.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, Teamwork.
• Analytical mindset & Strong MS Excel skills to create reports, tools etc monitor KPI performance

Preferred skills:

• Experience in an analytical role requiring data analysis skill sets, and the creation of KPIs/Reports (with a focus on Sustainability).
• Proficiency in data analysis & MS Excel skills - Pivot table, VLOOKUP, Graphs, Charts.
• Candidate will have to start his career in operational procurement and sustainability data treatment
• Languages: ideally English, French or Portuguese. Spanish is mandatory.