Global Procurement Strategic Sourcing Director

Global Procurement Strategic Sourcing Director / Directeur Achats Sourcing Stratégique Global, Technology H/F

Company: Ipsen Pharma (SAS)

About Ipsen: Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation. Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries. We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excellence and impact. At Ipsen, every individual is empowered to be their true selves, grow and thrive alongside the company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society For more information, visit us at https://www.ipsen.com/ and follow our latest news on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Job Description: Global Strategic Sourcing Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and leading the Global Sourcing strategy for the Technology, with an indicative portfolio spend of c. 110M€ & anticipated significant future growth. The Technology GSSD provides global leadership to his spend area with the whole Procurement Organization and 2 Direct Reports (1 Global Category Leader + 1 Global Category Buyers), developing Global Categories strategy, securing contractual agreements to meet business needs across a range of activities, and driving actions to optimize quality, delivery lead times, cost, efficiency, and simplification through strategic supplier relationships. Spend in scope: c. 110M€.

The Global Strategic Sourcing Director leads a functional area of a major spend segment, such as Hardware, Software, IT Services, Digital activities. She/He translates concepts, considers strategic options, develops tactics, and implements changes. She/He creates programs responsive to external environment and participates in cross-functional topics.

WHAT - Main Responsibilities & Technical Competencies

• Manage and develop a team of global category leaders / category buyers
• Part of stakeholders’ leadership teams
• Set the strategy for own Sourcing / Categories area, with emphasis on creating added value through sourcing to meet overall business goals and applies appropriate strategic & tactical solutions to deliver the business needs.
• Engage, partner, and collaborate with Business Stakeholders and across Ipsen divisions to ensure delivery of business stakeholders’ expectations together with business priorities and objectives.
• Drive his category in achieving procurement targets: significant improvements in supplier performance on quality and on time delivery; developing partnership with key suppliers to deliver sustainable competitiveness; playing global on categories while optimizing local.
• Improve operational excellence and reducing cost; engage & align with key internal stakeholders (Procurement BP & Business stakeholders) to identify opportunities and then drives the execution of Strategic Sourcing initiatives to meet cost improvement targets.
• Drive a cohesive Global Categories strategy to optimize business benefit from global contracts whilst providing scope for adaptation to meet market challenges; leads key categories and other major strategic negotiations as appropriate.
• Participate in the cross functional cost out activities across the business by working in close collaboration with functional partners in IT, Facility Management, Real Estate, Digital and across divisions Organizations to improve competitiveness and performance.
• Ensure consistent adoption of agreed procurement tools, methodologies and frameworks (SRM, Preferred vendors, Procurement policy, etc).
• Ensure customization is kept to necessary minimum and stop any attempt to develop new/specific/local methods/definitions/methodologies.
• Be the proactive partner of the CoE in driving consistency.
• Drive partnership mind-set across the Procurement organization.
• Develop staff to ensure high caliber individuals with thought leadership and development potential.
• Facilitate career paths of procurement staff, specifically Global Category leader and Global Category buyer under her/his responsibilities.
• Ensure diversity of thought and inclusive team work.
• Lead and develop Ipsen Way, ensuring effective communication across the Procurement organization, engaging with team members to ensure understanding and alignment with operational goals.
• Participate in procurement transformation initiatives Cate