Purchasing, Coordinator

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We're a dynamic biopharmaceutical company that offers you the resources you need and a global reach that empowers your innovative mindset. From day one, we've known it takes teamwork, passsion, and culture built on diversity and inclusion to develop the scientific breakthroughs, innovative pipelines, and therapies that change millions of patients' lives around the world. In short, we know it takes you make those groundbreaking advancements happen.

Ready to innovate together? We are looking for a Purchasing Coordinator in Cluster South, in this position you will provide sourcing direction to multiple functional areas within the company. The role supports the Purchasing Manager and is responsible for implementing, optimizing, and ensuring the delivery of approved category strategies at the site in concert with the Corporation’s overall strategies. The position’s objective is to coordinate AbbVie’s site spend and local suppliers to obtain the maximum value for the money spent measured through the delivery of cost savings.

Responsabilities:

- Work with the Purchasing Manager to optimize related areas of spend for procurement activities
and/or the sourcing process.
- Implement short term and long term cost reduction strategies established by management and
work with high ethical standard, in compliance with the law and the AbbVie policies and
procedures.
- Develop supplier base to expand business, improve financials, reduce in-house / total costs,
improve quality (customer satisfaction), customer relations, and on-time deliveries.
- Identify potential vendors and implement strategy: RFP / RFI / RFQ / Pricing Auction. Responsible
for running local tenders, aligned with direction from Purchasing Manager and respective Category
Manager.
- Develop and write all sourcing event documents, using existing templates and ensure compliance
with relevant policies, procedures and regulations.
- Improve supplier service levels by integrating agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Secures
financial / saving reports.
- Perform and collect due diligence information required for evaluating and approving new suppliers,
in line with the Preferred Supplier Networks.
- Data analysis and administrative support for purchasing projects and supplier management
(supplier metrics and research, master data, market basket analysis, pricing analysis,
monthly/quarterly reporting of KPI’s, savings reporting).
- May partner with legal to draft contracts while keeping close contact with respective suppliers to
ensure timely completion and execution of agreements. Must leverage data from multiple sources
and systems to support the negotiation process.
- Work in partnership with sourcing colleagues to negotiate or renegotiate deals and contracts with
supplier to include pricing and delivery schedules, while ensuring supplier risk management and
compliance guidelines and protocols are followed.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree or 4 years equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 3 years of procurement/negotiations experience in purchasing preferably
but not limited to Pharmaceutical.
- Strong knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook. Strong experience with
writing RFX’s. Solid experience conducting vendor negotiations.
- Ability to lead communication strategy to all team members, stakeholders, management.