Global Strategic Sourcing Director

The Global Strategic Sourcing Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and leading the Global Sourcing strategy for the Marketing and Commercial Excellence categories, with an indicative portfolio spend of c. 180M€ & anticipated significant future growth.

He/she will provide global leadership to his/her spend area with the whole Procurement Organisation and 3 Direct Reports (2 Global Category Leaders & 1 Global Category Buyer), 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.

He/she will lead a functional area of a major spend segment:

- Marketing, Media, Communication, Commercial Insights, Events Management, Medical & Commercial Excellence and Market Access.

**Essential General Responsibilities**
- 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 categories 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 Global Products & Portfolio Strategy, Medical Excellence Organizations and International Community 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

**Category Management**
- Provide thought leadership on categories through active competitive / market intelligence
- Develop category expertise through implementation of robust processes (category management, supplier relationship management) and regular adaptation of category outputs.
- Design best in class category plan / strategies based on robust facts, data and analysis, that will deliver across all value dimensions (financial, risk, quality, supply, reputation).
- Develop and drive preferred vendor panels and supplier base rationalization.
- Deliver financial, quality, supply and risk mitigation objectives.
- Manage strategic relationships with vendors to maximize value and minimize risks for Ipsen, using appropriate SRM framework.
- Direct staff in the development of global and / or regional category strategies for categories in charge
- Support Procurement business partners, manufacturing plants and/or country teams to implement strategies and involve business partners in strategy design.
- Develop & drive “sustainable procurement” initiatives in own categories in collaboration with stakeholders

**Business Partnering**
- Partner with business stakeholders in the design, build and implementation of adequate sourcing plans
- Develop a robust and trusted stakeholders management with Key Executive leaders and ultimately be part of stakeholders’ leadership or extended leadership teams
- Drive identification and validation of potential value creation opportunities.
- Actively engage