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Senior / Procurement Specialist

Roche India - Diagnostics, Global Operations

Mumbai

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

That’s what makes us Roche.

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams representing various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patient.

The Procurement Specialist is responsible for the execution of sourcing support and purchasing support activities. The role is responsible for executing operational and transactional activities to meet business and/or project objectives in a compliant manner.

The Procurement Specialist has knowledge of business enterprise tools (e.g. SAP) and the overall procurement process/methodology, such as documenting requirements, conducting analysis and negotiations, the purchase-to-pay process and communicating with stakeholders and suppliers.
 

By efficiently and effectively supporting the procurement process end-to-end and providing high levels of internal customer service, the Procurement Specialist ensures that stakeholder expectations are satisfied

Your Opportunity

Operational and Tactical Procurement Activities

Supporting the effective procurement of products and services in a timely and efficient manner

Maintaining master data: materials, suppliers, and workflows

Supporting the Procurement organization to ensure that all relevant documentation is complete and available in SAP (for example RFP, scoring tools and results, Signature Sheets, Contracts, SoWs)

Providing operational procurement support as assigned

Working with team members and business partners to mitigate any Procurement and/or business issues and help achieve agreed business goals

Executing operational procurement activities in line with a responsible Procurement approach while using tools, processes, policy setting, and enforcement in alignment with DOP business processes

Contributing that established targets and metrics on customer service are delivered. Track and monitor these metrics where required, and escalate issues as they arise

Supporting the optimization of processes to increase quality and efficiency standards

Identification of new opportunities to increase efficiency

Work closely and in a consulting manner with operational colleagues across all sides and affiliates

Who you are

You hold a bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in operational/tactical Procurement processes

Experience with enterprise systems, procure to-pay tools and eSourcing tools; skilled in the Google tool suite

(India) Competence or fluency in other sub-region languages is strongly encouraged

Life science experience is desirable

Experience from working in a multicultural, virtual setting

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop and maintain networks

Ability to communicate and influence stakeholders both verbally and in writing

Self-driven personality with a continuous improvement mindset

Ability to develop innovative ideas

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.