Procurement Team Manager (Gps Americas)

  • San José
  • Astrazeneca

Procurement Team Manager will manage and lead team of Procurement (Senior) Specialists and (Associate) Managers to deliver pre-defined business objectives and SLAs in area of Sourcing and Contracting processes. Within area of responsibility, takes full accountability for successful delivery of contract and sourcing events accordingly to agreed split of responsibilities within the Procurement Operating Model, compliance with existing procedures within the given remit of categories.

The role reports directly into the HUB Associate Director in GPS. The role will carry responsibility for ongoing performance management and improvement of S2C SET team and delivering own activities.

Leadership:

  • Accountable for managing the team, resource allocation, and team goals targets through direct reports

  • Establish and develop team by attracting right calibre of talents from within and outside the organization and providing appropriate opportunities and support.

  • Defines goals, sets and manages performance standards for the team able to deliver procurement projects to time, cost and quality standards.

  • Leads, Coaches, Inspire, motivate and develops professional aspects of Procurement knowledge

  • Responsible for regular development discussions with direct reports, recommend development activities to ensure constant learning

  • Promotion of working culture where transparency, empowerment and inclusion are integral partInstil the highest standards of compliance and ethics consistently across AZDevelop plans for team and oversees its implementation to ensure the company's needs are met

  • Ensure compliance to company procurement policies and tools, perform regular monitoring of team activities Change Management :

  • Undertake projects or initiatives to improve performance, seize opportunities or address key challenges

  • Support the change to the current Operating Model

  • Drive Source to Contract process improvement and optimisation (process steps, internal ways of working, legal support model, documents and templates etc.),

  • Easily adapts to ambiguity

Partnering & Collaboration:

  • Relationship building and liaising closely with AZ’s Procurement Global, Regional and Local Teams
  • Ensure right visibility of the team performance and deliverables by regular engagement with stakeholders within area of responsibility
  • Reports team deliverables, workload, supports in prioritisation activities
  • Ensure adequate workload balance within own team and collaboration with others S2C teams
  • Responsible for managing the quality of the deliverables within the defined SET Team & provide necessary guidance and support
  • Responsible for S2C project delivery only if required

Typical Behaviours:

  • Adaptive and change focused. Comfortable operating in an environment where not all processes, rules and systems are defined, and where the job holder will need to come up the answers
  • Decisive and Pragmatic. Willing to make decisions and live by the consequences of their actions
  • Highly customer focused and concerned with meeting and exceeding customer expectations
  • Emotionally intelligent. Comfortably relates to many different types of people. Is personally self-aware of strengths and weaknesses
  • Both a ‘doer’ to ‘leader’ and can comfortably adapt their style to teach, coach, or delegate, as appropriate

Measurables:

  • Service delivery against pre-defined objectives and goals
  • Effective management of the Team measured by employee satisfaction and stakeholder feedback
  • Delivery of Procurement continuous improvement initiatives
  • Successful transition of the US Medical Space into GPS